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THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION

Jesus lived and died for a whole universe, not just for the races of this one world.

While the mortals of the realms had salvation even before Jesus lived and died on Urantia,

it is nevertheless a fact that his bestowal on this world greatly illuminated the way of salvation;

his death did much to make forever plain the certainty of mortal survival after death in the flesh.

Though it is hardly proper to speak of Jesus as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a redeemer, it is wholly correct to refer to him as a savior.

He forever made the way of salvation (survival) more clear and certain; he did better and more surely show the way of salvation for all the mortals of all the worlds of the universe of Nebadon.

~ The Urantia Book, (188:4.6)

This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic.

Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into individual human experience:

the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man.

It is true, after all, that you are to be "forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors."

~ The Urantia Book, (188:4.13)

The cross forever shows that the attitude of Jesus toward sinners was neither condemnation nor condonation, but rather eternal and loving salvation.

Jesus is truly a savior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to goodness and righteous survival.

Jesus loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart.

Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. Jesus' death on the cross exemplifies a love which is sufficiently strong and divine to forgive sin and swallow up all evil-doing.

Jesus disclosed to this world a higher quality of righteousness than justice — mere technical right and wrong.

Divine love does not merely forgive wrongs;

it absorbs and actually destroys them.

The forgiveness of love utterly transcends the forgiveness of mercy.

Mercy sets the guilt of evil-doing to one side;

but love destroys forever the sin and all weakness resulting there from.

Jesus brought a new method of living to Urantia.

He taught us not to resist evil but to find through him a goodness which effectually destroys evil.

The forgiveness of Jesus is not condonation;

it is salvation from condemnation.

Salvation does not slight wrongs; it makes them right.

True love does not compromise nor condone hate; it destroys it.

The love of Jesus is never satisfied with mere forgiveness.

The Master's love implies rehabilitation, eternal survival.

It is altogether proper to speak of salvation as redemption if you mean this eternal rehabilitation.

~ The Urantia Book, (188:5.2)