The Cross of Jesus Christ then, from this perspective IS *the* universal standard of universal civilized progress, and represents the arrow of progress, UNIVERSALLY, all the way down to me, and you, as individual free will causal agents or historical participants of progressive change for the...
In setting the final standard of judgement, Jesus then made universal history through the cross, in as much as to him, and from his perspective, relating himself to all people through all time and space, and therefore relating himself to Godself, - all sin and evil was made relative (what is at...
That last post makes a crucial point, about the vicarious atonement.
Provided Jesus and the cross are a historical truth, then, taken in the relative context from Jesus' frame of reference and then framed within the context of the larger history, even to this day, and forever,
- and the...