It’s funny, but through time religion seems to suffer from something like theological hyperinflation. The Gospels and Paul’s much earlier Christology make Salvation out to be the result of an arduous self-discipline—"many are called but few are chosen", and all that. Nowadays it seems that everyone is confident of “salvation”, that the Rapture will be pretty general and not just something that affects a few unusually godly souls.
It’s funny, but through time religion seems to suffer from something like theological hyperinflation. The Gospels and Paul’s much earlier Christology make Salvation out to be the result of an arduous self-discipline—"many are called but few are chosen", and all that. Nowadays it seems that everyone is confident of “salvation”, that the Rapture will be pretty general and not just something that affects a few unusually godly souls.