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Religions
“Dost thou believe on the Son of God” (John 9:35).
Man’s confused religions stand in opposition to God’s simple way to life. Man’s ways are the wide, tolerant, sin-ignoring way that ends in destruction.We are told, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
There is one sense in which it is true that what you believe doesn’t matter. What you believe, or what religious men have taught, does not change the truth of God’s Word! Just believing something doesn’t make it so. Jumping off the top of a skyscraper onto the street below will kill you, no matter how strongly you believe otherwise. Entering into eternity with the firm belief that there is no God, or that your beliefs or your works are good enough to merit His approval will not change the outcome: “Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15).
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