Surprising Aspects of the Gospel of God in Christ

1.It’s catholic: available to all, throughout all cultures, throughout all historical periods, throughout all political systems, throughout all religions, and throughout all ideologies, including naturalism and atheism.

2.It requires nothing beyond acceptance: God will take care of the rest.

3.It has facilitators throughout the realm of the Christian religion and beyond, but has no mediators other than Jesus Christ.

4.One may pray to do the will of God, but one cannot know the specific will of God in an ethical situation nor can one know, in specific, how God will judge a specific thing or action.

5.There are no specifically Christian ethics. There are human ethics that, in the particularity of history, one might hope to be inspired by the gospel.