Sunday, June 13, 2010

Spanning the Gap

How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?
Job 25:4

That is the question all religions of the world seek to answer- How can sinful man and holy God come together? And every religion has it's own answer.
Islam says it is through the strict observance of the five pillars of Islam. Buddhists believe that all "negative states" can be overcome by meditation, and through positive thoughts and pure living one may finally reach Nirvana. Hindus believe in karma, the law of cause and effect by which each individual creates his own destiny by his thoughts, words and deeds.
Judaism teaches that man and God can only come together if man keeps all the Torah, the law. According to Roman Catholicism, one must rely on faith plus “meritorious works”such as the observance of the Seven Sacraments.
Two major areas all world religions have in common is this: (1) They all believe that salvation, righteousness, reconciliation only comes by man doing all he must do, depending entirely on man's works. (2) They are all wrong.
The only way a human can have a personal, eternal relationship with God is for someone to come between them as the Mediator, and do for them what they cannot do for themselves. That is the reason for Calvary.
"Oh, the love that drew salvation's plan.
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man.
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary."
Thank God for the Bridge He built, for the Mediator He sent, for the only solution to our human dilema.

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5

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