Redemption Through Christ

READ this book for the good it will do you. If you do not stand in need of the matter here presented pass it on to your neighbor. He may need it.

Redemption through Christ is the greatest theme of the ages. It is perennially alive with the utmost of consequences.

The scheme of salvation is none other than the attempt of the God of this universe to save men from a terrible disaster that has befallen them. In Christ, God came down. In Christ, God was manifest in a human form. He who formed all things, who created all things, came into his creation to save the men of it.

That coming of Christ is the greatest miracle of the ages. Nothing else can be compared to it. It is simply beyond comparison.

This, reader, is reason enough for this book. It contains in a brief compass the major features of Christ’s plan of redemption.

It should be remarked in passing that the religion of Christ is not primarily a philosophy of life. It is a life—a thing of itself. We may have philosophies about it, but Christ’s redemption itself is a matter of revelation. Christianity is a revealed religion. That revelation is contained in the Bible.

This is why we go to the Bible for the plan of redemption.

It is as certain as fate that man cannot save himself. No system of religion, no philosophy, no belief or creed, no moral code or ethical culture, can save man. It will take something outside of, above, and superior to man, to save him.

This is exactly what Christ said he came to do. They act the most reasonable in matters of religion who stick closest to the Bible. If God cannot save us, then we cannot be saved at all. Since God reveals his plan in the Bible, they are wisest who accept that plan and place their whole trust in it.

Those who believe in and accept God’s plan of redemption through Christ are saved.

Reader, if you are saved, you will enjoy this book. If you are not saved may it lead you to Christ, who is “able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him” (Heb. 7:25).

R. L. B.

Anderson, Ind., January 1, 1932 (From the Foreword)