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Are we saved in being transformed by the word or by Christ dying in place of us ?

Meditate on the verse of Rom.3:25 
"Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness (for the enshowing of His Righteousness) for the remission (passing over) of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;"
Romans 3:24-25 tells us we are saved or justified or redeemed through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ (Note: Heb.9:22 tells us without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins, this verse is not saying that without Christ dying in place of us there is no remission of sins). We are told there in Rom.3:25 what is the purpose of the faith in the blood, which is to declare or show God's Righteousness for the remission or the passing over of sins. The sins are remitted or passed over when God justifies the believer (See verse 26). So salvation is through the word or the knowledge of God given in the death of Christ for the remission of sins.
Note: the blood of Christ is explained in John 6:53-56 and John 6:63 as something (the word of God ) to symbolically drink which signifies the accepting or believing of the word to obtain life.
Many think when the bible say Christ died for us it meant he died in place of us. However the Greek shows He died as a provision for us to get certain benefits when the provision of His death is applied. That provision was given on the cross over 2000 yrs ago (the showing of the Righteousness of God which is a knowledge) but the application is done now when we believe the provision. That is the true context of the bible when it says Christ died "for" us (the "for" used in the greek is "huper" -which has the meaning of "as a provision for and not "anti" which has the meaning of "in place of".
As it is written Rom.1:16-17:
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed out of (Greek -Do = out of) faith into (Greek - Eis = into) faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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