Eternal Life

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. - John 17:3

    The Scriptures emphatically declare the holy character and glorious attributes of Jehovah. Yet, the majority of religions insist that he is not as the Scriptures reveal him to be. I insist that this is a willing refusal to believe and bow to revealed truth. Any other god than the God described in the Scriptures is a false god, and the worship of a false god is idolatry. The Gospel of God, when preached, is met with in one of two ways: believed and embraced, or rejected and hated.

    There seems to be a common ground upon which all false religions agree. It is that God can be any way you imagine him to be as long as you believe in Him, and that every one that believes in a god is going to heaven. Not so! Read Matthew 7:21. This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (Jn 17:3). The Bible is dogmatic and clear concerning the character of God, and salvation being in Christ alone (Acts 4:12). False religion insists upon the free will of man; the Bible insists upon the free will of God (Is 46:10). False religion insists upon the person and work of Christ plus the works and cooperation of man. The Bible insists upon the person and work of Christ alone (Heb 9:12). False religion insists that there is good in every one. The Bible insists that there is none good except Christ (Mt 19:17; Mk 10:18). In short, what the Scriptures plainly declare is either ignored or perverted by false religion in order that depraved man may retain his pride and imagined sovereignty over God; therefore the truth is rejected and hated. Those that, by God’s grace and power bow to and believe the truth, embrace Christ by faith that he gives by the preaching of the Gospel (Rom 10:17).

    But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (2 Thes 2:13).