Happy Easter Morning!
1. Question – Do Christians want a tolerant
loving religion which teaches that all religions
are basically the same?
2. AND: As a Christian, how can you explain Christ’s
decision voluntarily to subject himself to the indignities
and humiliation of human form, to experience wholesale
separation from the Father, to physically accept all the
real wrath of the Father for all of mankind’s past,
present, and future sins, and to suffer the indescribable
torment and death on the cross if all other paths to God
the same?
3. Thought – But political correctness in our
culture generally carries the day. Even many of our
churches have become corrupted with these misguided
notions of tolerance and pluralism. They have allowed
their theology to be diluted and have permitted the
authority of Scripture to be denigrated in favor of
society’s “evolved” ideas about
morality. Only a version of Christianity that preaches
that all religions are the same is tolerant and loving.
Traditional, Bible-based Christianity is intolerant,
insensitive, exclusive, and unloving.
How loving, though, is it to become an accomplice to the
destruction of truth itself – to the evisceration of
the gospel? As a Christian, how can you explain
Christ’s decision voluntarily to subject himself to
the indignities and humiliation of human form, to
experience wholesale separation from the Father, to
physically accept all the real wrath of the Father for all
of mankind’s past, present, and future sins, and to
suffer the indescribable torment and death on the cross if
all other paths to God the same? What an immeasurable
insult to the finished work of Christ on the cross! What
an act of deliberate disobedience to Christ’s
direction that we spread the gospel to the corners of the
earth!
For if all religions are the same, then we made a liar out
of Christ and rendered his Great Commission a useless
farce because we have removed all incentive to evangelize.
I’m not suggesting that Christians should approach
evangelism stridently or disrespectfully. We should
certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in
God’s sight and entitled to equal protection of the
laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment.
But there is no morale imperative that we adopt the notion
that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral
imperative that we do not. (I Don’t Have Enough
Faith to be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler and Frank
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Read!
It has been made really very simple by the Messiah.
Do you love Truth? Or would you rather belong to a feel-good club than be of the truth? Our savior came to be a witness for Truth.
John 18.37: ‘Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.’
Beware, the wolves have crept in from the beginning. They enlarge their robes and roles to bring others to themselves.
Speaking of and to the pastors & churchmen of His day, the Messiah said:
Matthew 23.3-13 ‘All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom
of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.’
Love truth!