Don't all the major religions basically say the same thing?
The truth is they do ask similar questions: Who is God? Why is the world such a mess? How do we solve this problem? The fallacy is that they all come up with the same answers.
Of the world's major religions, Jesus is the only leader who claimed to be God in the flesh. Moses didn't. Mohammed didn't. Buddha didn't. But Jesus made another claim many people find even more controversial. Jesus claimed that He was the only way to God: "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me' " (John 14:6).In the Garden of Gethsemane before Jesus is betrayed and arrested, Jesus fervently prays in agony, because he knows what is going to happen to him. He must suffer for the sins of humankind. Jesus is praying that God reveal another way for people to be reconciled to Him. He prays, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done" (Matthew 26:42).
God's answer was there is no other way. In fact if there were another way to God, Jesus' death would have been unnecessary.There could be many solutions or ways to God if the world's problem was ignorance, or desire or just being bad. But God's diagnosis was different, and it had just one solution. Our problem is our sin that separates us from God, and Jesus' death is our only cure.
How good do you have to be to go to heaven? The common wisdom is that if you are 51% good or obey most of the commandments, then you've made the grade for getting into heaven. That is a false belief.
The truth is we all make mistakes; we know we need to be forgiven. Do you live up to your own expectations? If you don't even live up to your own, how do you think you live up to God's?
The problem isn't that we are bad and that the cure is to be better. Rather, Jesus diagnosed that our sin is a symptom of a diseased and dead heart, and what we need is a new heart from a donor.
Think of it this way. Imagine God said to you, "I want to give you the gift of healing. You can heal anybody of any fatal disease." Would you take this gift? Now, what if God said, "There's just one catch. Whoever you heal, you will get what they had." Now would you accept this gift? You might for someone you loved more than yourself. This is the deal Jesus was offered - and He accepted.
The Bible says it like this: "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21).In the movie there is a scene where Jesus reveals that He knows the meaning of His death. During the crucifixion there is a flashback to a meal He had with His disciples. He takes bread and breaks it. He gives it to his disciples and says,
" 'Take and eat; this is my body.' Then He took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, 'Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins' " (Matthew 26:26-28).
For Jesus, dying was His reason for the living. He died for you so that you might live forgiven."If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a God."• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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