The religious world is filled with misconceptions concerning salvation — misconceptions that have hindered many people from being saved. The story of the conversion of Cornelius, found in Acts 10 and recounted in Acts 11 and Acts 15, illustrates for us what is important in salvation and how we might be saved as they were. The story of Cornelius is particularly important because the characteristics of Cornelius and the events that happened to him are similar to those the religious world think are important in becoming a Christian, yet throughout the story we find that it is not the unique events that saved Cornelius and his household but the common things available to everyone.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen Was Cornelius Saved?\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Importance of Cornelius’s Conversion The religious world is filled with misconceptions concerning salvation — misconceptions that have hindered many people from being saved. The story of the conversion of Cornelius, found in Acts 10 and recounted in Acts 11 and Acts 15, illustrates for us what is important in salvation and how we might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1058,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1075,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/when-was-cornelius-saved\/cornelius-had-a-religious-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":1062,"position":0},"title":"Cornelius Had a Religious Experience","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Cornelius Had a Religious Experience Cornelius experienced miracles \"About the ninth hour of the day\u00a0he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God\u00a0coming in and saying to him, \"Cornelius!\" And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, \"What is it, lord?\" So he said to him, \"Your\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1085,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/when-was-cornelius-saved\/we-are-saved-like-cornelius\/","url_meta":{"origin":1062,"position":1},"title":"We are Saved Like Cornelius","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We are Saved Like Cornelius We are saved in the same manner as Cornelius The method that saves every Christian saved Cornelius and his household. \"But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they\" (Acts 15:11). 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