What would a key biblical reference be?
There is a reference in the New Testament that holds two fundamental axioms in fruitful tension: the will of God to save all, and the central place of the mystery of Christ in the concrete realization of the divine plan. God wants everyone to be saved and to reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and humankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all (Timothy 2:4-6). The first axiom is God’s will to save all. The second accords Christ a central place in God’s plan to save all. He is at the center of the mystery of salvation as the way leading to God because God and no one elsenot human beings or Christianityhas put him there. This is the message of the New Testament in its entirety, the deep faith without which none of the books comprising it would have been written.
There is a reference in the New Testament that holds two fundamental axioms in fruitful tension: the will of God to save all, and the central place of the mystery of Christ in the concrete realization of the divine plan. “God wants everyone to be saved and to reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and humankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all” (Timothy 2:4-6). The first axiom is God’s will to save all. The second accords Christ a central place in God’s plan to save all. He is at the center of the mystery of salvation as the way leading to God because God and no one else—not human beings or Christianity—has put him there. This is the message of the New Testament in its entirety, the deep faith without which none of the books comprising it would have been written.
