The extent and efficacy of the life and work of Jesus Christ is best viewed in the context of a balanced tension of a both/and dialectic between the objective-universal all of humanity at large and the subjective-particular wherein not all will choose to individually and personally respond to Jesus Christ. Over-emphasis on the subjective-particular that diminishes or denies the objective-universal leads to aberrant extremisms of particularism, either objective particularism or subjective particularism. Over-emphasis on the objective-universal that diminishes or denies the subjective-particular leads to extremisms of universalism, either general universalism or deterministic universalism.