The cross was the price that Jesus paid for agreeing to live in a “mixed” world that was both human and divine, bad and good, simultaneously broken and utterly whole. He agreed to carry the mystery and not to demand perfection of God’s creation or of God’s creatures. He lived fully on the horns of the human dilemma and made it work for us. In fact, he said it is the only way. It is in that sense only that Christianity is the “only” way to be saved. We are, indeed, saved by the cross—more than we realized.
