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The Message: There Is Only
One Truth - God's Truth
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Are So Many Religions. Don’t All Point To God? What Is The Truth?
Truth is narrow
and exclusionary by its very nature because all opposing claims are
then false. In mathematics, there is only one truth. There are no
multiple choices that allow you to select how to worship God and to
live for all eternity with Him. God has selected that path, and He
did so before man was even created. There is no option for man to
select his own truth.
God allowed man free will, the privilege of choice,
which includes the option NOT to believe. Satan, as an angel that
God created, had free will, and he chose to rebel. Man has likewise
rebelled since Adam. God wants a loving relationship with man, a
real and genuine fellowship, but not as a puppet on a string. That
companionship can only be present when, through our free will, we
choose to accept God’s plan. Man-made religions are not God’s
plan; they are false religions, infected by Satan.
As a firm proof that God controls human past, present
and future, the Bible's Old and New Testament contain literally
thousands of prophecies, and 100% of them came true 100% of the
time – all except for those still to come. The culmination
of the prophecies in Daniel and Revelation and others draw closer
with every Middle East news report.
Other
than Christianity, no other religion
or belief
– ancient
or modern - even
attempts such perfect prophecy. No religion conceived by humans
can predict the future because they originate from Satan, not from
God. Only God can predict the future because it is under His control.
For a detailed investigation into Old and New Testament prophecies
already fulfilled and those yet to come, click on the link in the
left column entitled "Prophecies." The
prophecies that have been fulfilled since 1948, more than during
any generation in human history, indicate that something wondrous
is about to happen.
In addition to prophecy, there were the miracles.
Jesus performed miracles as proof of His divinity, some of which
were seen by tens of thousands of eyewitnesses, by controlling nature,
instantly curing incurable illnesses, healing the blind, healing
the deaf, healing the paralyzed, creating food and raising the dead.
He even healed by long distance because of the supplicant’s
faith.
Those who saw these miracles by Jesus would not
have allowed incorrect versions to be circulated or published. Many
witnesses died horrible deaths rather than renounce what they had
seen. Liars make bad martyrs. Even the pagan kings and Roman emperors
of the time knew of – and feared – Jesus’ miraculous
deeds. Christ revealed power over creation that only belongs to
God the Creator.
Other than Christianity, no other religion presented
miracles by its human founder. All others are individual men’s
philosophies, and all are unverified by God or by human witnesses.
No one was witness to Muhammed’s revelations, he wrote no
prophecy, nor did he perform miracles. God said that Satan would
infect men with counterfeit religions, just slightly off the truth
but espousing good behavior. Satan’s great lie is that good
works are all that are needed for eternal life;
that man’s greatness is the solution.
All counterfeit religions share one common thread
inspired by Satan: they reject the Trinity of God the Father, God
the Son and God the Holy Spirit - one God in three Persons, in existence
from eternity. Denying that Jesus is God is denying God’s
perfect plan for man’s salvation.
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What
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plan is breathtaking in its simplicity. It is: |
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All
men are sinners. All come short of God’s perfection.
Your sin separates you from a holy God. Acknowledge your own
sins and rebellion in silent prayer to God. If you think you
have lived a faultless life, you are self-deluded. If you are
not ashamed of your sin and recognize how unfit you are to enter
God’s presence, salvation is not possible. A human priest
is not required for this. Jesus is God and
is our personal High Priest. Go directly to Him. If you are
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The
penalty of sin is death. Not just human death, but
the separation of your eternal spirit from God after
death. A price must be paid for your sin. If you have ever,
for example, lied, cheated, stolen, been rude to your parents,
had sex apart from marriage, killed an unborn baby or hurt others
only ONE time, you are doomed to never-ending blackness and
torment for all of eternity. Reincarnation is a lie; you have
only one choice to get it right, and you could die tomorrow.
Small sins count as much as the big ones - God does not grade
on the curve. However, there is one way out, and only one. |
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Christ
died for you. Jesus paid the price that God demands
for sin. The shedding of blood is required for man's sins to
be forgotten by God. First, by Abel.
Then, by the priests.
But these sacrifices
did nothing to change men's hearts. Finally, God sent one
sacrifice, a blood sacrifice, once and for all to atone for
mankind's sins - in the person of Jesus
Christ.
It was no accident
that Jesus was crucified on Passover, the celebration of the
deliverance of the Hebrew people from the judgment of death
that came upon their Egyptian slave masters. On the exact date
that people were choosing the perfect Passover lambs to be sacrificed,
Christ rode into Jerusalem to offer Himself to Israel as their
King. At the exact day and time - at 3:00 PM - that the Passover
lambs were being killed for the feast, Christ was brutally scourged,
crucified and died, suffocating after an excruciating six hours
on the cross.
Jesus is the spotless
Lamb
of God who saves us from the judgment of death from sin.
God came to Earth in human form - Jesus - and paid the penalty
of sin for us: death. He arose from death in three days, and
hundreds saw Him alive. His prophesied resurrection was the
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You
can be saved through faith. You must trust in Christ
alone as your only way to heaven, not your good works, your
piety, your behavior or anything you have to offer. The penalty
for your sins has already been paid by Jesus’ death in
your stead. Christ is the mediator between God and man. You
must take an active, not passive, part in this most important
decision of your life by asking Jesus for His forgiveness for
your sins and trusting in Him alone as your only way to heaven.
And, you must turn away from the sins you are confessing, which
is repentance. The exact moment that you truly believe that
Jesus is your personal Savior, you are "born again"
- you become a Christian - and are guaranteed eternal life.
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is about a people – Israel – formed by God as a nation
of priests to live apart from the pagan ways of its neighbors; to
receive, preserve and disseminate God's Word; and to be the nation
from which the Messiah would come. The New Testament is about a Man
– Jesus, God in human form – who came to take away the
sins of the world by becoming the spotless sacrificial Lamb that would
allow men who believed in His death and resurrection to join the King
in eternal life. Jesus IS God.
Jesus said, "I am the Way and the Truth and
the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” God
proved His indescribable love for us by humbling Himself to appear
as a Servant in a human body that was tortured and crucified, the
most humiliating and agonizing death ever devised. God’s greatness,
not man’s greatness, is the key to eternal life.
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