Is there any correlation between the economy of salvation being marketed and the growth rate of the Christian communities at a particular time and place?
There are at least five different economies of salvation that were marketed in the first millennium. In the second millennium, we would include Pope Leo X's, also known as Giovanni de Medici, sale of indulgences and the Puritans’ scaring the hell out of people models.
The church that prays together stays together and all of its communing members go to heaven [Cyprian]. Cyprian believed that those who partake of the sacrament became part of the body of Christ.
All of God’s creatures, including the cynical attorney, will go to heaven [Gregory of Nyssa].
Only members in good standing of my church will go to heaven [Augustine].
Only God knows who will go to heaven.
Among all these ways of thinking and thoughts on salvation there is one primary one... it is the primary way of marketing salvation. CHRIST is the primary way to heaven... and only God knows who will be going to heaven... and we know that we are saved by grace through faith...
People always argue in who is going to be saved... until they forget that, Only God can save us... and it is only through His transforming and saving grace that we are saved.
Jesus Christ is the ultimate way of marketing salvation... and not other things....
Robert J Agustin
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