Fundamentally there are only two religions. The first general type of religion is a system whereby man seeks to please God in order to gain salvation or eternal life. This religion is found everywhere, even in false Christianity. The method may be different but the intent is the same. We must be good enough; we must be sad enough over our sin; we must punish ourselves enough; and we must follow enough rules to earn, by our own merit, our entrance into the kingdom of God. The other religion is a specific religion which says in Galatians 2:21 (KJV) 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Doesn’t that make great sense? If there are many ways to God, including the worship of inanimate objects, then why would God send His only son to live on this earth. to be crucified mercilessly and to die a tortured death? Would God do this to simply add yet another way into the kingdom? It seems God paid the price for our sin by Himself assuming the death penalty. According to John chapter 3 verses 14-16: 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept His free gift of salvation by grace through faith, and enter into the family of God.
