Dessa Billingsley Book Analysis 2
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Dessa Billingsley
Dr. Joseph Hama
Theo 313
27 February 2015
Book Analysis Part 2 – Is Jesus the only Savior? In today’s society we have many different religions that argue constantly over the view of salvation and how one receives eternal life. Many even believe that there is only one way to heaven or that Christianity is the only way. Many beliefs are obvious, and many believe that all paths of religion lead to heaven, and never would a loving God send anyone to hell. In his book, “Is Jesus the only Savior,” Ronald H. Nash makes a great argument about the inclusivists. Inclusivism is the view that people can actually receive God's gift of salvation based on Jesus Christ's atoning work, however, the sinner need not believe the gospel in order to actually receive this salvation. Inclusivism agree that God’s mercy is so complete that it can and does embrace many. This is in contrast to exclusivism, which believes, that a sinner can only be saved by a conscious understanding and faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nash discussed in detail in chapters 1-6 his argument against pluralism. Nash now begins chapter seven with an introduction of the inclusivists stand point. He quotes many inclusivists, giving them the benefit of the doubt. However, he yet proves all their theories wrong. Nash makes every attempt of the inclusivist use of scripture look weak and unsupported. He sees their position as middle ground between exclusivism and pluralism where God’s salvation is completely available by all grounded on the
Billingsley 2 work and person of Jesus Christ , there are nowithout restriction (103). Nash goes on to say that there are two axioms of inclusivism, the particularity axiom and the universality axiom. Nash makes it clear that both these axioms pose a definite untruth. Inclusivists believe, “That there to axioms complement each other, The universal axiom expresses their belief that God must make salvation available to all human
Dessa Billingsley
Dr. Joseph Hama
Theo 313
27 February 2015
Book Analysis Part 2 – Is Jesus the only Savior? In today’s society we have many different religions that argue constantly over the view of salvation and how one receives eternal life. Many even believe that there is only one way to heaven or that Christianity is the only way. Many beliefs are obvious, and many believe that all paths of religion lead to heaven, and never would a loving God send anyone to hell. In his book, “Is Jesus the only Savior,” Ronald H. Nash makes a great argument about the inclusivists. Inclusivism is the view that people can actually receive God's gift of salvation based on Jesus Christ's atoning work, however, the sinner need not believe the gospel in order to actually receive this salvation. Inclusivism agree that God’s mercy is so complete that it can and does embrace many. This is in contrast to exclusivism, which believes, that a sinner can only be saved by a conscious understanding and faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nash discussed in detail in chapters 1-6 his argument against pluralism. Nash now begins chapter seven with an introduction of the inclusivists stand point. He quotes many inclusivists, giving them the benefit of the doubt. However, he yet proves all their theories wrong. Nash makes every attempt of the inclusivist use of scripture look weak and unsupported. He sees their position as middle ground between exclusivism and pluralism where God’s salvation is completely available by all grounded on the
Billingsley 2 work and person of Jesus Christ , there are nowithout restriction (103). Nash goes on to say that there are two axioms of inclusivism, the particularity axiom and the universality axiom. Nash makes it clear that both these axioms pose a definite untruth. Inclusivists believe, “That there to axioms complement each other, The universal axiom expresses their belief that God must make salvation available to all human