1. You have heard it said that on the day of judgment only Christians will be saved and all others will be consigned to eternal damnation, but I say to you that the gospel proclaims salvation for the whole human race.
2. You have heard it said that non-Christians are strangers who will not enter the Kingdom of God, but I say to you that God enters our lives through the very presence of the stranger.
3. You have heard it said that heretics and sinners will have no place in the Kingdom of God, but I say to you that to reject even the least of these is to reject God and Gods messiah.
4. You have heard it said that human beings can be saved in no other name than that of Jesus, but I say to you that the name Jesus means we are saved in the name of a God who cannot be named or imaged.
5. You have heard it said that only a chosen remnant can be saved, but I say to you that a saving remnant saves not itself but the whole human race of which it is a part.
6. You have heard it said that in the final judgment many will be consigned to the eternal fires, but I say to you, Gods judgment is a refining fire which transforms and saves rather than destroys. The final truth is that our God is the savior of the whole human race and especially all believers (1Timothy 4:10).
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Darrell J. Fasching is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa Florida, where he has served in the past as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Before coming to the University of South Florida he served as Assistant Dean of Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University. He is the author of four books on theology and ethics and co-author of three text books on world religions and on global ethics. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and lives with his wife Laura in Lutz Florida, where he worships at All Saints Lutheran Church.
By the author: The Thought of Jacques Ellul (1981); Narrative Theology After Auschwitz: From Alienation to Ethics (1992);
The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia? (1993);The Coming of the Millennium: Good News for the Whole Human Race (1996). Co-author of: Religion and Globalization (2008) with John Esposito and Todd Lewis;
Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics (2011) 2nd edition, with Dell de Chant and David Lantigua;
World Religions Today, 4th edition (2011) with John Esposito and Todd Lewis.
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