WHICH IS THE TRUE RELIGION?
Sakkie Parsons
Translated from Afrikaans: “Wat is die ware Godsdiens?”
Translator: Robin Barker
Remember together with all that you are about to read the following:
Any so-called Christian religion who has a priest, elder, apostle, teacher or whatever they have in their religion, who claims to get higher preference by our Lord regarding accessibility to Him over and above you, because of their position, is according to my opinion, unchristian like.
One day a person asked of me if I don’t believe that all religions are in actual fact all the same. In other words: If I am religious and believe in God or in a god, am I not already saved?
I then said to her, I only have the Bible to answer her question. I then quoted her the following verses and said that if these truths are part of a religion, then it is the truth.
JOHN 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
JOHN 3:16-18
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
JOHN 10:9 Jesus says:
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved …”JOHN 14:6-11
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.ACTS 2:36-39
36 “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
The first Pentecost gathering is held (this title is not in the English translations)
37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”1 CORINTHIANS 12:3
Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God (just through true belief) says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit."1 JOHN 5:19-20
19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
We therefore see very clearly from these Scriptures that only by accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour, we will enter into eternity to be with GOD our Father. Without Jesus we are lost forever and condemned to eternal hell.
May you accept Jesus wholeheartedly today and live your life for Him.
Greetings,
Sakkie