Sincerity, or Truth

When given a choice between a more difficult path and an easier one, people often select the easier one.

We have even come up with a term for it: “Taking the path of least resistance”.

On the surface it would seem like there is nothing at all wrong with this.

After all, why put forth effort if someone else provides what seems to be an easier alternative?

That has been the case with the topic of salvation for centuries.

According to scripture, there is only one path to salvation.

Jesus Christ is that path.

In fact, He is the only path.

Yet people, some of whom are quite influential, try to tell us otherwise.

They tell us that there are many paths that lead to God.

They tell us that it really does not matter what we believe as long as we are sincere in our beliefs.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

What good is sincerity when one could be sincerely wrong?

What if someone offered me a glass that contained a clear, odorless and tasteless liquid?

I might sincerely believe that glass contained water and drink it.

What if it were not water, but instead a lethal poison?

The end result would be my death no matter how sincere my belief was.

Sincerity in one’s belief only matters if what one believes happens to be true.

The plain and simple truth is that Christ is the one and only path to salvation.

The fact that some choose not to believe this truth in no way diminishes it.

Some, especially those with influence, will counter that Christianity’s view is too narrow.

They may even say that they cannot accept a view that provides only one way to salvation.

Yet when you consider all the evils that man has committed throughout history, isn’t remarkable that God provided one way for us at all?

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NET) - For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

Blessings,

Jim Pokorny

The Other Brother Jim

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