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Sin, the Savior, and Salvation: The Theology of Everlasting Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

With scholarship that is thorough yet accessible and a tone that is convincing but non-combative, Dr. Lightner explores the current confusion over such issues as: • the vanishing concept of personal sin in our secularized society • the influence of New Age ideas on the deity of Jesus Christ • the controversy over “Lordship salvation” among evangelicals

but a man who was so one with God that in Him I meet God.” Thomas O’Meara regards Jesus as “the climax of man.” The culminating point in human evolution, He is “not the creator of salvation but its prophet.” For Ernst Fuchs Jesus should be considered “a man who dares to act in God’s stead.” In Schoonenberg’s Christology Jesus is basically a human person who embodies and reveals the presence of God rather than a divine person who assumes human nature. Hans Kung depicts Jesus as “God’s advocate and
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