DF 35-37 - two universals of the Christian faith

DF 35-37
It is a universal of Faith

• that God is One in Person and in essence.
• . . . that no mortal could have been saved
  unless the Lord had come into the world.
• . . . that He came into the world in order to remove hell from man,
  and He removed it by combats against it and victories over it;
  thus He subdued it,
  and reduced it into order
  and under obedience to Himself.
• . . . that He came into the world in order to glorify the Human
  which He took upon Him in the world,
  that is, in order to unite it to the all-originating Divine;
  thus hell was disposed into order by Him,
  and He holds it under subjection to eternity.
• And inasmuch as neither of these mighty works
  could have been accomplished except by means of temptations
  even to the uttermost of them,
  which was the passion of the cross,
  He therefore underwent this uttermost temptation.

These are the universals of the Christian Faith concerning the Lord.

The universal of the Christian Faith on the part of man

• is that he believe in the Lord,
  for through believing in Him
  there is effected conjunction with Him,
  by which comes salvation.
• To believe in Him is to have confidence that He will save,
  and as no one can have this confidence except one who lives aright,
  therefore this also is meant by believing in Him.

These two universals of the Christian Faith
have already been treated of specifically;
the first, which regards the Lord, in Doctrine of the Lord;
and second, which regards man, in Doctrine of Life.