Understanding the Bible 41: What Must I Do to Be Saved? Or Why We Are All Semi-Pelagianists at Heart

Every philosophical and religious tradition has a view on the requirements of membership – what it takes to belong to the community of "salvation." In early Judaism, for example, membership within "true Israel" belonged to those who were at least: descended from Abraham, circumcised (men), obedient to the food laws and observant of the Sabbath. For […]