vation. This belief tells that in Jesus Christ, God will approach mankind himself and takes it back into communion with him. This is the sign of our salvation; it further explains that mankind does not need to lift themselves toward God. "With the words of preaching, the gospel, and in the material nature of the sacraments the meeting between God and man will take place in the finite sphere through the virtue of Incarnation" (Meyer 965). The second on is Justification of the Sinner, this is the center of the church's message and doctrine, and the heart of the Christian existence. It is meant to tell mankind that God will mercifully welcome the sinners, or the person that is stricken with judgment. With the belief in this event wholeheartedly the person is then justified by God and at the same time introduced to another life. "This being said is the "principal element&quo
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