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I want to be very clear about this point: My efforts are not directed at persuading someone into a religion. My concerns are over your eternal souls. Jesus Christ is the only way to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven because all have sinned, and all will face judgement. It is appointed unto all men once to die, and then the judgement. And the purpose of my posts is to encourage each of you to seek Him in your life, to have a relationship with Him so that He will guide you rightly in this world, and into His Kingdom.
This goal has almost nothing to do with religion. It is about salvation, and a relationship with the One who created all things. He, Jesus, seeks to restore what was lost in you at the fall. It's the only reason He came to die, to atone, and it's the only reason I am reaching out to each of you, so you too will be saved. It is not for other reasons.
There are lots of Christian religions: Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Lutheran, Episcopalian, etc. I do not advise a person to enter any of those religions. I advise people to seek a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and to come out from the religious system and seek to serve Him in your life, and not the religious systems which are designed to trap people, to control them, to put them into busy work conditions, and not of the purpose Jesus had when He came here: to save men's souls, and to teach them the ways of salvation through Him.
Jesus alone is able to save our eternal souls because only He can take away our sin. He never sinned, and He came here and chose to transfer our sin onto Himself, and then die with all of that sin and pay the price of sin once and for all for all who will believe. That is the gospel message (the "good news"). And on the third day, because He is God, He rose again and now lives forever, so that all who put their faith and trust in Him will also live forever.
It is not about religion in the slightest degree.
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I urge each of you to do only one thing:
Seek the truth. Seek to learn the
absolute truth by asking of yourself, "God, I want to know the Truth, even if it shakes my current beliefs, even if it rattles my foundational core, I want to know because I do not want to enter into eternal death, but I want to enter into eternal life in Heaven forever."
His name is Jesus. Ask Him to come into your life and guide you, and He will. He is the "Good Shepherd" who leads the sheep that have gone astray back to the correct pasture.
That is all I am teaching: that only He leads me rightly, that only He can save a man's eternal soul from Hell, and that without Him saving us, we already stand condemned because of sin.
