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The world offers many avenues to God. One well-known road is the “I’m-a-good-person-so-I’m-okay” belief that people—and even some professing to be Christians—give us, promising that we’re guaranteed entrance into heaven as long as we read our Bibles every day and pray; give nice, tidy offerings to the church so others can see how generous we are; be kind to the poor, elderly, and orphans; and so on. In the end, as long as our good outweighs our bad when we die, we can walk right through the Gates of Pearl because we deserve all the riches and splendor of heaven.
This road is marked with signs of all the ways we can “earn our way.” It comes down to the basic belief that man is inherently good, instead of sinners with depraved natures. In Romans, however, we find this statement: “There is no one righteous, not even one.” In Ecclesiastes 7:20, Solomon states, “There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.” Where do these Biblical proclamations fit into the equation of lies the world tries to make us believe?
Jesus’ declaration of himself in John 14:6 is the absolute and bottom line truth: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Man is born a sinner, and the only way we can be saved is to accept Jesus’ death on the cross for our sins. It doesn’t matter how “good” or “righteous” we try to make ourselves out to be; we can do nothing to earn our way into heaven. It is only through the love and grace of Christ that we have salvation. It is basically THROUGH Jesus, not around Him, no matter what the world tells us.
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Your view of Christ and living are absolutely right on. I think the main reason people don't respond to Christ is they think, they have to do something. No one has ever done anything like this to me before. We try to put God in terms we know. From a limited perspective, that is hard to do
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