Christ’s Testimony About the Word of God

Christ’s Testimony About the Word of God

Is the Bible truly the Word of God? In this message, we explore what Jesus Himself says about Scripture—its truth, its eternal nature, and its power to transform lives. From John 17:17 to Hebrews 4:12, we walk through five key attributes of God’s Word: • It is Truth • It is Eternal and Universal • It is Living • It Sets You Free • It Speaks to the Heart of Man We also examine how Jesus affirms the authority of Genesis, the reality of creation, and the sanctity of marriage—showing that if we can’t trust the Bible from the beginning, we risk undermining the Gospel itself. Scriptures referenced: John 17:17, Matthew 24:35, 1 Peter 1:23, 2 Timothy 3:16–17, John 8:31–32, Hebrews 4:12, Ezekiel 36:26, Mark 10:6–8, Genesis 1–2 Resources: How to Defend the Bible https://youtu.be/pRIPMZ4sJhc?si=I11px7L7W9su-hCB

Can anyone explain this about Jesus Christ?

Revelation 1:17-18 [17] When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. [18] I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. ‭Philippians 2:5-7 [5] In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; [7] rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ‭‭Matthew 2:11 [11] On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 1. Is Jesus God or the Son of God? 2. Why did Jesus pray to God? 3. Was Jesus worshiped? 4. What does it all have to do with us? Resources: Jesus is God https://www.livinggodministries.net/living_god_ministries/radio_archive/audio_files/gospel_of_john_041_8_41_59_jesus_is_god_ext.mp3 The Gospel https://www.livinggodministries.net/living_god_ministries/radio_archive/audio_files/the_gospel.mp3

A Demonstration of Power

"She kept this up for many days. Finally, Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her. When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities." Acts 16:18-19

In a video titled, "Why didn't God demonstrate his power and stop the Holocaust?" the caption reads, "One student couldn't see why God [didn't] demonstrate his power and stop the Holocaust to demonstrate he was God. While no one knows for sure why certain evils befall people or why God chooses to act or not act in certain circumstances ... God doesn't want us to merely believe THAT He exists, but to trust IN Him." One of the Christian presenters responded by telling what some Jews he encountered had to say on the subject. He said, "What they would say to you is that this is an expression of what man is capable of. We want to see what God is capable of, but what about us? How deep does this evil potential run? And we just got a glimpse of that [with the Holocaust]." He went on to make the point that God, in essence, did intervene with the Holocaust because the plans of the Nazis went much deeper than just the Jews, as they had plans of world domination. There could have been a Holocaust that engulfed the entire world had they not been stopped. However, when I hear these types of questions asked, I want to ask my own question. Where does it stop? God intervened at least three times already. He gave the people of Noah's generation 120 years to change their mind before He flooded the earth. Nobody repented of their unbelief. God negotiated with Abraham over the lives of the people of Sodom saying that He would spare its destruction if ten righteous people were found to live in the town. There were not even ten righteous people. God personally stepped out of heaven for over 30 years as Jesus Christ and they killed Him. The thing to realize is that people don't truly want God's intervention, they want Him to intervene on their own terms when they choose He should act as well as what the outcome should be. Ultimately, they want God to remove their free will or, at the very least, the free will of others to choose good or evil. In time, nobody will have any freedom to make their own decisions and nobody will have any accountability for the consequences of those decisions.

The Apostle Paul and Silas were harassed for many days by a slave woman who had a "spirit by which she predicted the future." She annoyed Paul so much that he cast the demon out of her. Rather than be astonished by the powers of a man capable of casting out demons, her owners had Paul and Silas stripped, beaten, and thrown into prison. This was all because the slave woman would no longer be profitable to her owners because she had lost the ability to predict the future. When Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead we read where Caiaphas, the high priest, said, "You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish (John 11:50).” Caiaphas knew that Jesus was going to die since he had prophesied it earlier in the year. Do you see what is going on here? The hearts of men are only focused on this world, the here and now, and their flesh. They do not care about God's plans, getting to know Him, or why He does what He does. They are only interested in their own selfish motives. Things like making money, remaining in power, or keeping the treasures they have accumulated on earth have always been the driving force behind the denial of the things of God. God flooded the world, killing all but eight people, and we are right back to where we were as a people before the rains fell. God came to this world as Jesus Christ, fulfilled hundreds of prophecies, but He wasn't the type of Messiah the Jewish leaders wanted so they betrayed Him and had Him killed. The slave owners didn't even think twice about who it is that can cast a demon out of a woman with a few words. They only cared about a source of income for them drying up. What if God never flooded the earth? What if there were ten righteous people living in Sodom? What if Paul allowed the demon to continue possessing the woman? What if Jesus Christ was the reigning Messiah rather than the suffering Messiah the Jews wanted? What if God had stopped the Holocaust before it began? Is there any indication that the people of Noah's time, the residents of Sodom, the slave owners, the Jewish leaders, or this student would have believed in God or accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior? Would the hearts of men have turned to Jesus Christ simply because things didn't happen? How would they even know God stopped them unless they could see the future? What it boils down to is that people are not looking for reasons to believe in God. They are looking for confirmation as to why they do not believe in Him. God can never do enough for these people and they will have to carry that burden for a Christless eternity.

You should be an Atheist

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord." 
Isaiah 55:8

What would you say if I told you that Abraham Lincoln was a beardless, Black man? If I said that Joan of Arc was an 80-year-old Protestant woman killed during the Crusades would you believe me? If I said that George Washington was the King of England would you take my word for it? If you knew anything about history you would easily be able to rebuke me as ill-informed at best or an outright liar at worst. It is a lot like this when it comes to the existence of God and the debate between Christians and atheists. When it comes to the problem of evil, atheists will say things like, "Because evil exists, God cannot be all-powerful, all-knowing and loving and good at the same time." On the subject of pain the argument made is "Because God allows pain, disease, and natural disasters to exist, he cannot be all-powerful and also loving and good in the human sense of these words." Regarding the existence of different religions the argument is "Since the Gods of various religions differ widely in their characteristics, only one of these religions, or none can be right about God." There are those that will say "Since God is invisible, and the universe is no different than if he did not exist, it is simpler to assume he does not exist." Christians will look at these statements and then try to formulate answers to refute them. There is nothing wrong with doing that, however, one thing to remember is to never automatically accept the premise of an argument. When you do, you instantly give credibility to it. While these objections to the existence of God are a bit more complicated to refute than my examples above about Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and George Washington, you get my point. Christian apologist, Frank Turek, said, "Many atheists don't specifically have arguments for a universe without God. What they have are complaints about the way God is running the universe." Think about this for a moment, how easy would it to be to allow the atheist to have their beliefs? I am not saying to concede that what they are saying is true, but to let them know that what they believe about God is not necessarily what you believe or are proclaiming about Him.

The prophet Isaiah confessed that the way he, or mankind, thinks is not the way God thinks. Atheists often think in ways that are not validated by what God states in His word. Where is it written that God cannot be all-powerful, all-knowing, loving, and good at the same time because evil exists? You cannot know what evil is apart from their being good to measure it against. In fact, Psalm 34:14 says, "Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it." Similar to the existence of evil, "Have Christians struggled to explain their belief in God because of the existence of pain in the world?" Pain is the consequence of the Fall and sin entering the world. God told Eve “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor, you will give birth to children (Genesis 3:16)." God is very aware of pain and suffering in this world and told us to expect it. When it comes to the varying beliefs about God held by different religions, the Bible tells us "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints (1 Corinthians 14:33)." God is aware of all the different "characteristics" about Him held by each Christian denomination and religion of the world. Otherwise, the Bible would not have taken the time to affirm that God is not the author of confusion. Regarding Jesus Christ, Colossians 1:15 states quite clearly that, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." God has clearly revealed Himself to all the world to see when He stepped out of Heaven and into His creation as Jesus Christ. For an atheist to say He is invisible is to admit that they have never seen Him. All the complaints about God that atheists use to deny His existence are not rebuttals of the truth about Him but are things they make up in their own mind based on their own experience or what others have said about their unbelief in God. Therefore, they should be atheists because the God they say doesn't exist does not exist. That is a problem they must solve not a Christian. We don't believe in that God either. Remember one thing, if you are in a relationship with somebody others say does not exist is it true they don't exist? Of course not. An atheist would need to have complete and total knowledge to say something does not exist. And if they had total knowledge they would be God and we know that is not the case. Oddly enough, they would be denying themselves.

Cause I'm Just a Nobody

"He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” John 1:23

Mark Hall of the musical group Casting Crowns said this about their song, "Nobody." "There was a day that came when John the Baptist could’ve had his moment to make a name for himself. Everyone came to him and said ‘Who are you? Tell us who you are so we can go tell everyone else.’ He says ‘I am just a voice out here in the wilderness.’ It sounds like a poetic statement but what he’s saying is just straight. I’m nobody. You don’t need to know me. I’ve got nothing for you. If you’re going to meet me and you’re going to leave, the thing that’s gonna last is going to be Jesus. Because he [John] knew I’m not the point. I’m here to point to the point [Jesus].” In a day and age where there are times you cannot tell the difference between pop stars and Christians, it is refreshing to hear a statement such as this. Whether it be through legalistic teaching that robs the body of Christ of their time, treasure, and talent or from false teachings like the Prosperity Gospel which lies to its followers by telling them God wants them to be rich, the beneficiary is always the pastor. They are the ones who become Christian celebrities as they build their manmade empires by storing up treasures on earth at the expense of their congregations and the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If it were not for God deciding to immortalize their names in the pages of the Bible, would we have ever heard of many of the heroes of the faith? Even a prophecy about Jesus Christ seemed to deflect attention away from Him as much as possible. "There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care (Isaiah 53:2-3)." Here we have God in the flesh, the Son of God, the Messiah, and Immanuel. The most recognized name in all of history is said to have nothing beautiful or majestic about His appearance and nothing to attract us to Him. It even said that people turned their backs on Him and looked the other way; the ultimate sign of being ignored and deemed irrelevant. He was a nobody. Yet, when so many people are trying to make a name for themselves and leave a legacy, being a "nobody" is something many of the heroes of faith could have easily been labeled.

Aside from John the Baptist, mentioned earlier, we have the Apostle Paul. Paul described himself as the least of the apostles and said, "I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church (1 Corinthians 15:9)." Later on, he said, "I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault (Philippians 3:5-6)." Here Paul lists his religious accomplishments. These are things that would elevate his stature among his religious contemporaries and firmly establish his legacy. However, what does he say about these accomplishments? "I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Philippians 3:7-8)." Paul had every opportunity to be a "somebody" and establish his legacy and build his own earthly kingdom. After all, God promised numerous blessings of the flesh through obedience to His law. Yet, the law did it's work in Paul, not because of the blessings promised through obedience to it, but by showing him his need for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. He chose to be a "nobody" and was a perfect example of his predecessor John the Baptist who said, "He must increase, but I must decrease (John 3:30).” To say God must increase and I must decrease is just another way to illustrate the chorus from the Casting Crowns song, "Nobody." "'Cause I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody, All about Somebody who saved my soul, Ever since You rescued me, You gave my heart a song to sing, I'm living for the world to see nobody but Jesus, I'm living for the world to see nobody but Jesus." My prayer is that all who have placed saving faith in Jesus Christ will become like John the Baptist and the Apostle Paul and live for the world to see nobody but Jesus.

Celebrating Christmas

"Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy." Daniel 9:24

There are those that do not celebrate Christmas for a variety of reasons. Some do not do it because there is no proof Jesus was born on December 25th. Others do not celebrate it because it is "rooted in Pagan customs." There are those that still celebrate Christmas on December 25th, but do not put up Christmas trees because of those previously mentioned "pagan customs." I have even heard of at least one, so-called Christian, who stuffed pillows in the fireplace to "prevent" Santa Claus from coming down the chimney so their children would not believe in him. To all of this I say, "To each their own." It is not mandatory for a Christian to celebrate Christmas. However, a person is also free to celebrate Christmas as well and shouldn't be condemned by those that do not. We are not under law. Furthermore, While there is no proof that Jesus was born on December 25th, those that do celebrate Christmas are celebrating the fact of His birth, not necessarily the day of His birth. It is true that Christmas is connected to pagan festivals. However, the early church began celebrating Christmas as "a spiritually positive alternative to what they perceive as a pagan celebration," according to one source. It is no different than what we see with other holidays like Halloween where churches have "Harvest Festivals" and other similar events. Also, I have never known anybody to worship trees or anything else considered pagan. Even Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicklaus, has a Christian "connection" if you are inclined to look it up. Most children, including myself, who grew up in homes that celebrated Christmas, were not negatively affected by believing in Santa Claus, decorating Christmas trees or doing it all on December 25th. I am of the belief you can do more harm than good by trying to take all these precautions to protect your children and others from the so-called "paganism" associated with Christmas. If you really look at it, what traditions do we engage in, outside of Christmas, that don't have their origins in some sort of pagan activity? As one person put it, "Realistically, how could public ceremony exist at all apart from non Biblical origins, since the Bible doesn’t define or prescribe any public ceremonies to speak of ...?" The one thing missing in a lot of this discussion about Christmas, regardless of what side you fall on, is Jesus Christ!

In the book of Daniel, he was praying to God when Gabriel appeared to him and delivered what is known as the "Seventy-Weeks Prophecy." This was a Messianic prophecy detailing the time when Jesus would make His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. In Daniel 9:24,  we see some key components of this prophecy; to finish transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring righteousness. In short, the prophesied Messiah, Jesus, would forgive sins and give us the opportunity to be in a right standing with God. Prior to the birth of Jesus, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph, who was considering divorcing Mary, and said, "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).” This prophecy about the Lord was about who the baby was that Mary was carrying and what that baby would do after His birth. Would it have been okay to celebrate Christmas if the angel had said, "She will give birth to a son, on December 25th, ....."? The day of Jesus' birth is inconsequential. His purpose was to not only save His people from their sins, but, as it turned out, to save the entire world from our sins! Consequently, because Jesus Christ took the penalty for our sins, by His death on the cross, God can give us the righteousness of Christ when we accept Him as our Savior. Jesus Christ, because He was the perfect sacrifice for sins, can now indwell each believer for eternity because our sins are no longer an issue between us and God. We are given Christ's righteousness, which makes us righteous. We are perfect in God's sight because Jesus Christ is perfect. We are reconciled to God because He is no longer counting our sins against us. This is why His birth was prophesied. This is why His birth was so important. This is why we celebrate His birth. The Bible says, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)." Why somebody does or does not celebrate Christmas is between them and the Lord. However, when we get caught up focusing on everything surrounding Christmas, it only serves as a distraction; dividing the Body of Christ and taking the focus off of Jesus Christ. It does not glorify God, but gives the impression we are glorifying ourselves. Whatever you are doing on December 25th, my prayer is that you're doing it for the glory of God. In my opinion, the birth of Jesus Christ is something to be celebrated. God thought it was such an important event that He prophesied about it in His Word. The least we can do is thank Him for doing so by celebrating the day God became one of us, so He could save us. Merry Christmas!

Which Jesus?

We often hear people say, "I believe in Jesus" or "You need Jesus in your life." Christians will, correctly, proclaim, "Jesus is the only way to Heaven." However, does anybody ever ask the question, "Which Jesus?" Depending on who you ask, you will get many different answers. Answers like:

• Jesus is not God, but He was a man who lived a perfect life. That before He lived on earth He was Michael, the archangel.
• God the Father exalted Jesus to be His Son, thus provoking Lucifer's jealousy and a war in heaven. 
• Jesus was not God, not the Son of God and not crucified or resurrected. 
• Jesus is either an extremist false messiah or a good, but martyred Jewish rabbi.
• Jesus is just an enlightened teacher, but not God.
• Jesus is a teacher or guru and is a son of God like others.
• Jesus is not uniquely God, didn't suffer and couldn't suffer for people's sins.

These are just a few of the beliefs floating around out there about Jesus Christ. But, how many people know the true Jesus in order to navigate through all of these false messages? The only way to know what the truth is about Jesus is to not only know Him as your God and Savior, but to know what His Word says about Him. 

So when others say, "Jesus was not God," you can say, Jesus said, "I and the Father are one (John 10:30)."  When others say, "Jesus was created by God," you can say, Jesus said, "Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began (John 17:5)." When others say, "Jesus is not the only son of God, " you can say, Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)." When others say, "Jesus was a great prophet, but not God, " you can say, "'In His defense, Jesus said to them, 'My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.' For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God (John 5:17-18)." The key to all of this is to build your thinking from the Bible and what it says about who Jesus is. 

Therefore, you will know the answer to the question, "Which Jesus?" 

Jesus is God, the second person of the Trinity (John 1:1). As God the Son, he has always existed and was never created (Isaiah 9:6). He is fully God and fully man (John 1:14). As the second person of the Trinity, He is coequal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 9:6). In becoming man, he was begotten through the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary (Matthew 1:23). Jesus is the only way to the Father, salvation, and eternal life (John 14:6). He died on a cross according to God's plan, as the full sacrifice and payment for our sins (Acts 2:23). He rose from the dead on the third day (Matthew 12:40). For the next 40 days He was seen by more than 500 eye-witnesses (Acts 1:3). His wounds were touched and he ate meals (John 20:28). He physically ascended to heaven (Acts 1:9). Jesus will come again visibly and physically at the end of the world to establish God's kingdom and judge the world  (Acts 1:11).

That's "which Jesus". My God and Savior!

The Empathy of God

"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin." Hebrews 4:15

The Bible tells us that long ago Satan rebelled against God and was thrown out of Heaven; "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations (Isaiah 14:12)!" A relatively short time later mankind, influenced by Satan, also rebelled against God and was thrown out of the Garden of Eden; "So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken (Genesis 3:23)." After God had rescued the Jews from their slavery in Egypt and delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, the people were afraid of God, stayed at a distance from Him and only wanted to hear from God through Moses; "They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die (Exodus 20:18-19).” Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, was denied by His people, called names, schemed against, betrayed by His friends and had plots against His life; "He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem (Isaiah 53:5)." Despite his boasting to the contrary, Peter denied knowing Jesus; "Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re not one of his disciples, are you?”He denied it, saying, “No, I am not (John 18:25)."" What you see in all of this is that God was rejected by people and, in many cases, those people that He loved.

How many people today ask things like, "Where is God when it hurts?" Others write articles with titles like, "How to live when God is silent."  Unbelievers mock God by saying things like, "If God is love then why do people suffer so much?" At the root of all this is the idea that God is some out of touch deity who is sitting on His thrown, far away from us, and disinterested in what goes on down here. It is often concluded that if God exists at all He can't possibly understand what I'm going through. However, everyone of us has been rejected by others, betrayed by our friends, schemed against by our enemies, pushed away, ignored, not believed and left feeling abandoned and alone. But, I am here to say we do have a God who understands what we are going through. To empathize means the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. As a Christian we have the privilege of having a God who understands what we go through and shares the feelings we experience. When Jesus Christ was born He was called Immanuel which means, "God with us." God was with us, but it is also safe to say that God became one of us. Not only does He know what it is like to be tempted to sin, He also knows what it is like to be sinned against. Nearly everything we go through He has gone through as well. We have a God who is in touch with us, has suffered like us, been hurt like us and knows what it is like to be alone. The key that makes relationships work is to have something in common with the other person. We have something in common with our God. He knows exactly what it is like be human and go through the trials and tribulations of life. Because of this we can be confident that when we come to Him with our needs He will say, "I understand what your are going through" and then lead us to a greater knowledge of who He is and who we are in Him through faith in Jesus Christ.

All About Jesus

"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:8

Once, a well-known and popular entertainer, said, "There can't possibly be just one way," when discussing how a person gets to heaven. This same individual proclaims themselves to be a Christian as well. If there is more than one way to heaven, and you claim to be a Christian, then why did Jesus Christ say, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6)"? This statement is clear and cannot be dismissed for any reason. Yet, for many people dismissing the words of Jesus is exactly what they do. For example, the New Age movement, which is based on a combination of Eastern mysticism, Hinduism and paganism, says that Jesus is not the one true God and not a savior, but a spiritual model and guru. Cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus is not God and that before He came to earth He was Michael, the archangel. Another cult, the Mormons, believe Jesus is a separate god from the Father and is the "elder brother" of Lucifer; the devil. Judaism, albeit from God, sees Jesus either as a false messiah or a good, but martyred Jewish rabbi. Buddhism only sees Jesus as an enlightened teacher at best. Hinduism only views Jesus as a teacher or guru who did not die for sins or rise from the dead. Islam says that Jesus was not God or the Son of God and was not crucified or resurrected. There are numerous other belief systems that hold similar views to the ones here, but none see Jesus Christ as who He is and claimed to be; God in human flesh and the Savior of the world. None of these belief systems seem to address the words of Jesus Himself. They only make up what they want to say about Him in order to cling to their beliefs instead of recognizing the truth.

It is interesting to note that nearly every other religious system outside of Biblical Christianity has a viewpoint on Jesus to one degree or another. However, aside from Judaism, the Bible nor Jesus, never come close to mentioning these other faiths even though a couple of them were in the world prior to Jesus coming to this earth. Personally, I think it is because when you are the way, the truth and the life, as Jesus proclaimed, everything else by default is false. Therefore, why address any of it in specific terms? False beliefs proclaim Jesus was not God.  However, the Bible proclaims, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (John 1:1, 14)" Others teach Jesus was a great prophet, but not God. Jesus said, "I and the Father are one (John 10:30).” Unbelievers say Jesus was just a man. The Word of God says, "This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about : His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:18)." The lost say Jesus was not raised bodily from the dead. Scripture tells us, "The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay (Matthew 28:5-6)." The bottom line is that there cannot be more than one way to heaven. Jesus, God in the flesh, was the only one who had a life to give that would satisfy God as payment for our sins. And, raised from the dead, He is the only one who can restore to us the life of God we lost when Adam sinned. No matter what a popular figure states or a well-established religion believes, if it doesn't line up with Biblical Christianity and the truth of Jesus Christ, it is to be accursed.