The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement

by Michael J. Gorman

For Grimsrud, because God is the covenant God who is always ready to save and always merciful, the cross is therefore not necessary for salvation; it is not a soteriological event: “the Bible’s portrayal of salvation actually does not focus on Jesus’s death as the basis for reconciliation of humanity with God.”