Quotes about Redemption

Resurrection and forgiveness are not strange things that might perhaps happen in the old creation.

the death of Jesus, reconciling people to God, generates the renewal of their human vocation.

Forgiveness isn't weakness. It was and is a great strength.

In Christian theology it is God who deals with evil, and he does this on the cross.

The minute you think you're good enough for God, God says, 'I'm not interested in people who are good enough for me.' And the minute you think you're too bad for God, God says, 'It's you I've come for.

And all this "works" because Jesus is Israel's Messiah, representing his people, so that what is true of him is true of them.

In his appearing we find neither a dualist rejection of the present world nor simply his arrival like a spaceman into the present world but rather the transformation of the present world, and ourselves within it, so that it will at last be put to rights and we with it. Death and decay will be overcome, and God will be all in all. This

Those who belong to him are to believe and to live by the belief that they died and rose again with him, so that they are no longer under any slavish obligation to obey the old master.

the principle that God's kingdom, inaugurated through Jesus, is all about restoring creation the way it was meant to be. God always wanted to work in his world through loyal human beings.

To imagine a world without the gospel of Jesus is to imagine a pretty bleak place

And, since the exile was the result of Israel's idolatry (no devout Jew would have contested the point, since the great prophets had made it so clear), what they needed was not just a new Passover, a new rescue from slavery to pagan tyrants. They needed forgiveness.

The main thing Paul wants to say in this paragraph is that God has done, in and through Jesus, what he promised and purposed all along.