Here is an amazing solution for the problem of man. It only fails to be amazing if we have heard it so long that we simply do not listen. But if you could imagine yourself suddenly coming face to face with this answer for the first time, so that you were not turned off by evangelical phraseology, but really were caught by the full force of God's solution to the dilemma, man's true guilt, you would understand that the word amazing is not too strong. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. There is no humanistic note added to salvation here.
Man keeps trying to add a humanism to salvation.
Man always tries to sneak a humanistic element into salvation. But in the area of individual salvation Scripture rejects all humanism. This is totally explosive into the midst of the humanism of any age and expressly into the humanism of the twentieth century. God keeps His absolute standard, and yet there is a way for the individual to be reconciled to Him, to be in a personal relationship to Him, which gives meaning to life. It is at this point that the individual is understood to be the complete contrary of a zero.