The Point of Salvation

 The point I’ve been trying to make in some of the recent things I’ve posted is that questions on race aren’t somehow subsidiary to the matter of salvation. Rather, for Scripture, the tearing down of divisions and the unification of all peoples (and of all creation) in Christ is central to the Gospel. For Scripture, it is the point. Sin separates, and God in Christ undid that separation, in a project that will carry on until the resurrection of the dead. This is why Paul handles Romans 1-3 the way he does. Paul in Galatians is not merely concerned with either salvation or “table fellowship” (contra Wright), but both, because the two cannot be separated. This is not universalism. Some will be saved, and some will not. But the Kingdom of God will be made up of those from every tongue, tribe, and nation. God is saving the world - that is the Gospel.