Myth, 59

~ All Paths Lead to God ~

 

Introduction  ~  This is an interesting item.  In the most common use of this idea it is false.  However, in a more important realm this is a true statement. 

 

False  ~  There is only one way to heaven and eternal joy.  “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’” (John 14:6). 

 

True  ~  Every single person will see God at a future time.  The Christian will appear before God at a time of rewards (essentially a positive meeting).  The unbeliever will stand before God as their Judge who will sentence them at that time to everlasting pain and torture. 

 

“And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?  Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?  But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,  who ‘will render to each one according to his deeds’: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness — indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  For there is no partiality with God” (Romans 2:3-11). 

 

Jesus said, “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36).

 

Question  ~  If the end of life on earth as we know it were to be later today, or tomorrow would God be your Father or your Judge? 

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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