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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of a people separated from the world so that we can be united in spite of - or perhaps better, because of - the world's fragmentation and divisions.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

Only a god can save us.