Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

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I was brows­ing through An Emer­gent Man­i­festo of Hope in the hope of find­ing some­thing semi-substantial to write on.  Luck­ily I encoun­tered a con­tribut­ing author by the name of (Pas­tor) Samir Sel­manovic. In his arti­cle he writes:

When we say that only Christ saves, Christ rep­re­sents some­thing larger than the per­son we Chris­tians have come to know. He is all and in all. And Christ being “the only way” is not a state­ment of exclu­sion but inclu­sion, an expres­sion of what is uni­ver­sal. If a rela­tion­ship with a spe­cific per­son, namely Christ, is the whole sub­stance of a rela­tion­ship with the God of the Bible, then the vast major­ity if peo­ple in world his­tory are excluded from the pos­si­bil­ity of a rela­tion­ship with the God of the Bible, along with the Hebrews of the Old Tes­ta­ment who were with­out a knowl­edge of Jesus Christ–the per­son. The ques­tion begs to be … (Read more)