Hello,
I read this article: atheism.about.com/od/thebible/a/salvation.htm
there it says:
What do you think?
Thank you…
: Dani
The author, Austin Cline, means it’s popular among (uneducated) atheists and agnostics to treat Paul as the guy who invented Christian theology per se.
It only makes Christianity largely irrelevant if the universal salvation isn’t through Christ (much moreso grounded in trinitarian theism).
Austin then quotes a number of verses (including Gospel portions which the same kind of sceptic wouldn’t attribute to Pauline invention) which (mostly) involve universal salvation being provided through Christ.
Notably, the author quotes from Mark’s version of the incident of the unforgivable sin, which is an important verse to keep in mind (the Greek stresses that every sin whatever will be forgiven men), but ignores the very famous context. (Thus also ignoring the much less famous context for expecting that the eonian sin is to insist that God through Christ has no intention or else no power to save certain sinners!)
It’s a very sloppy article, which refutes its own contention (“you don’t need Jesus and Christianity in order to be saved”) by the very scriptures Austin appeals to: even those scriptures indicate Jesus alone saves, and that people who are saved will become Christians eventually.