Bath's book, Church Dogmatics, explains that each individual election completes an opening and widening of the closed circle of the election of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, Barth's cryptic language even hindered the understanding of this author. A clearer statement of Jesus' involvement in election would illuminate Barth's understanding. His writings had already proclaimed that Jesus was the beginning and end of salvation. In other words, Jesus' death destroyed the bondage of sin but his sacrifice must be accepted. Barth was therefore able to communicate a perspective that interweaves the forces of the theories that led him in his conception of Christ Jesus to refute any support of