All paths do not lead to God
Pastor Dale Morgan
Christians need not look to any such set of laws, such as the Noahide
laws (seven laws God gave Noah) for the path to the kingdom of God, for
that path was prepared by their savior Jesus Christ.
To be a Christian is to be Christ-like in all that we do and in all that
we say.
To be a Christian is to realize that Jesus came to free a world from its
sin. He encountered legalism in religion just as we do today. But he
engaged those legalists with love, and a firm message: that God was
fulfilling his promise to Abraham through him.
All paths do not lead to God, as our post modern world would have us
believe, but rather all must go through Jesus. Jesus died on that cross
that we might live.
God's covenant with Abraham was that through him all nations would be
blessed, and they were. They are blessed and his name is Jesus Christ.
To try and define God without his Son is a futile attempt at religion,
the same religion that Jesus so confronted in his day. One can not earn
righteousness, it can only be obtained through grace and grace alone.
Jesus called us to love God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, and
to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and that all the
commandments hinged on this. See Matthew 22: 34-39.
The new covenant is that all can be saved, but not through works, but
through the love of God. God so loved us that he sent his only begotten
Son, and who should believe in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life, and no one comes to the
Father except by him.
One need not be believer of anything else but Jesus Christ in order to
be saved.
The Rev. James M. York is pastor at Hart Avenue Nazarene Church in
Washington.