ONE WAY ?

The Scriptures say that God created Heaven and earth.
His creation and His plan for us is recorded in His Word, the Scriptures.
Everyone on earth has a direct relationship to God because He made each of us. He has His stamp on each person’s life; “Made By God”. He is the potter, each of us is the clay. Whether a person believes in God or not, God has this direct relationship with each of us as His creation.

I do believe that The Bible is The Word of God. I believe that there is One Creator, Father God, True God, “Elohim”. The Hebrew word for God in Genesis 1:1 is Elohim. This word is a plural word meaning three or more; The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. Deuteronomy 6:4 says, “Hear, O Isreal, the Lord, our God is One!” Here again the name used for God is Elohim. Also the word ONE is “echad” which means unity in plurality. Our God is The Three in One, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. We read about Creator God, The awaited Messiah, and the Holy Spirit throughout the Old Testament as seen in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22. The fulfillment of these old Testament prophesies is found in the Gospel accounts of the New Testament.

I found an article by Kevin Haag, parts of which I am going to paraphrase here:

The Old Testament tells us of God’s redemption of His chosen people, the Israelites. He brought them out of slavery, gave them his law, and delivered them into the Promised Land. They forsook the Lord and worshipped other gods. He gave them judges but they refused to give up their evil practices. He pleaded for his people to return to Him.
Today, most of us don’t worship idols made of stone but we are all sinners in the eyes of a Holy and Righteous God (Romans 3:23)

God has always had a plan for our redemption. He sent his son, Jesus Christ, to redeem the world (John 3:16). When Jesus became God incarnate, He was truly God and truly man. (Philippians 2:7,8). He had a divine nature and a human nature.
Jesus was unique, He lived without sin. No other religious leader can claim that.
Jesus was different than any other religious leader; we cannot give equal honor to Him and other leaders. Buddah (Siddhartha Gautama), Muhammad (claimed to be a “prophet” of God), and Confucius, did not claim to be deities, they were all mortal men.

Jesus was without sin. He was in a class by Himself. When He came to earth, He lived without sin (2Corinthians 5:21). No other religious leader can claim that, nor can any mortal (Romans 3:23- read verses 21-31).
The greatest of other religious leaders could mediate the law, instruct on the law, council others, think deeply, and speak wisely, but none was qualified to offer atonement for the sins of the world. Jesus’ death was made as a payment for the sins of mankind. His sacrifice was perfect. He voluntarily suffered an exhausting, agonizing, and painful death because He (God Incarnate) loved us. (John 10:11-18 and Romans 5:6-11)

Jesus was resurrected from the dead. He was raised from the dead by God. This fact gives Him credentials that no other religious leader possesses. Buddha, Mohammed, and Confucius are dead. Christ is alive!!

Religion doesn’t save, joining a church or a denomination doesn’t save, doing good works doesn’t save, nor does being a good person save.

The dictionary definition of “save” in a theological sense is “to deliver from sin”. The theological definition of “salvation” is “spiritual rescue from sin and death”. Every man comes into the world with a sinful nature. When we choose to believe, and receive God’s Spirit into our spirit, we allow Him to become greater and our own sinful nature to progressively decrease.

Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death”. We all will face physical death someday. The death which Proverbs is referring to is a spiritual death, the void of God’s spirit within us (The second death). By believing “He is” who He says He is, God says that He will come in to our hearts and dwell with us now and throughout eternity.

God does give us free will. We choose to believe or not to believe. That is why it is so very important to seek for the truth for ourselves. The bible tells us that if we seek, we shall find. We are saved by God’s Grace, not by anything which we do, in and of ourselves. Salvation and Faith are gifts from God to anyone, anywhere, who seeks, believes, and receives. They are free gifts from God to us; given because of His love, grace and mercy. Being born again of the spirit means that we have chosen to believe what God says in his word, to believe the whole council of God. Either we believe that the whole bible is the Word of God, or we don’t. Either we believe in God’s plan of salvation, which He planned from the beginning, or we choose not to believe.


It does matter what we believe; the decision is an eternal one. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God incarnate, the Son in our triune God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the only way to God; the only way to heaven; the only way not to be absent from God throughout eternity. He alone is able to redeem. He alone is worthy of our devotion and worship. God’s word is true. Jesus is The Word. Jesus is Truth. He says, “I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no man comes unto the Father but by Me” (John 14:6).

1Timothy 2:5, says “For there is One God and One mediator between God and men, the man, Jesus Christ”.