Title: Incomplete argument
Product review: Note: The editorial review is citing the wrong author/wrong book.Winter answers the question of "Did Jesus have to die on the cross?" by citing the various theories of atonement, and showing that none of them give an explanation of exactly "how" Jesus' "sacrifice" on the Cross achieved salvation. Winters likens Jesus to Moses as an intercessor for the people. He concludes that the crucifixion, that of the Messiah being killed in such a humiliating way, overshdowed God's reconciling the world to himself through Jesus (as God and man) simply by asking for forgiveness for the sins of the world. It seems that there is a both/and that Winter is missing. The Cross takes too prominent a place in the Gospels to not somehow affect salvation. The question of "how" remains unanswered in this book.
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