Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.

This is a brief summary of my faith in Christ written as the introduction to a brief paper on the subject for my theology class.

It is my opinion that Jesus Christ is the unique mediator of salvation. My belief in the necessity of salvation for humanity stems from reason and experience; the presence of undeniable evil in the world rationally predicates a need for salvation from said evil. That God exists and that he alone holds the means to our salvation I hold in faith, supplemented by reason such as Aquinas’ and Anselm’s proofs. The one system of belief that shares such an opinion about the need for salvation from evil and sin is Christianity, among whose central tenants is the confession that Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, died for humanity’s sins and rose, redeeming us before our Father. One need not believe or know of Christ explicitly to attain the salvation he achieved, as the Gospels which give us our knowledge of Jesus suggest the universality of his sacrifice. A sincere discerning and doing of the good, which will inevitably be acting in love, is the key to meriting the salvation uniquely mediated by Christ.