Christianity

The lesson of the Old Testament is that man abdicated salvation by "falling into sin," with the story of Adam and Eve illustrating the point. That is where Christ enters the picture:

God did not abandon man after he fell into sin, but promised him a Redeemer, who was to satisfy for man's sin and reopen to him the gates of Heaven (Kinkead 67).

Hence the Passion and the Atonement, also called the Redemption, which represents God's covenant with mankind that mankind's sin has been expiated by Jesus' death. It is sufficient to reinvite mankind to salvation because Jesus is not only a man but also the Son of God and indeed is one with God Himself.

Now that sounds like very good news for mankind, but from the time salvation doctrine was voiced by the emerging church, it was controversial. A core issue was the deity of Christ. Some early Christians argued that Jesus was s

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in all" (Colossians 3:11). Another aspect can be seen at John 3:16: "God so loved the world [Jew, Greek, Roman, etc.], that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Come one, come all to salvation, but there is a condition: acceptance of Christianity. That is in the background of 2 Peter 3:9: "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." The atonement is brought into another restatement of the universality of Christianity at Romans 5:15: "But not as the offense, so also is the free gift: for if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many." Out of a claim to universality, however, there comes a claim to the "elect" status of new religionists. That is, Christians are special in God's eyes. The text of 1 Peter begins with an address to the "elect" who were made so "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." That brin
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