The framework of a Christian answer to the question why salvation? rests in a basic conviction about the natural, God-given human condition as we actually experience it. A simple way to express this would be to say that there is enough bad news about being human, to make good news from God about it not merely worthwhile but necessary.
Although being human is good, because the very possibility is brought into being by the creative and loving will of God (Genesis 1.27), at the same time it is, in some sense that is felt to be both mysterious and tragic, out of kilter with its origin, so that its goodness and glory are obscured, or even at times rendered invisible. And this is taken so seriously as to make Godward, not humanward, talk of salvation natural to Christians: only God can bring being human back into kilter, can lift the veil which obscures its goodness and glory.
The story of Jesus of Nazareth, the Word of God made flesh, crucified, risen and ascended, constantly celebrated in Word and Sacrament, restoring and healing human being by bringing it into communion and fellowship with God, is for Christians the story of how God brings being human back into kilter and so releases its goodness and glory.
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