Bates takes up the ambitious task of reconciling Protestant and Catholic Christians by helping them rethink their own respective doctrines of salvation. As a Protestant New Testament scholar who ...

Evil had now entered the world – this is known as the Fall. The sinfulness of Adam and Eve caused a separation from God that could have resulted in humanity’s eternal punishment. Sin. Humans ...

The ideas of salvation and atonement are very closely linked in Christianity. Atonement is the idea of the relationship between humans and God being healed, with God and humanity becoming united.

Our salvation is just an appendix in Christ’s redemption of all creation. One of the most quoted Bible verses of all time is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and ...