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Donna Mae · Jan 31, 2008, 01:32 AM

"Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one cometh unto the Father but through Him." Jesus is the way. Read God's word and study to learn what you must do to be saved. You can't know what God is telling you by asking others opinions. Study it yourself. Believe, Repent, be Baptized into Christ, and never depart from His Word and you will receive the gift of eternal salvation.

Kia · Jan 31, 2008, 03:03 AM

To Onan: Religion is not the cause of death of millions of people; it is people. The teachings of both these religions primarily teach peace and love. They also teach that God makes the ultimate decisions about people's bad deeds and their salvation. People take bits and pieces of religious teachings and interpret them to suit whatever they want to do in their lives. It is not the fault of God or religious writings.

Donna Mae · Jan 31, 2008, 12:12 PM

"Jesus is the way."
Being a Christian is being a 'Child of God', but it takes more than just saying you are a Christian to be one. I have heard preachers say that all you have to do is accept Jesus into your heart (or say a certain prayer) and you are saved, but if we read God's word (the Bible) we will see that accepting God is only the first step. Most TV preachers won't tell you the whole truth because the don't want to offend someone and loose a viewer. (The road to destruction is wide and many false teachers are leading souls down this road.) Everyone needs to know the truth and reading the Bible is the best way to know what the truth is (please don't depend on others to tell you what the truth is--including me-- read it for yourself). God says--Confess that Jesus is the Son of God--Repent of your sins--Be Baptized into Christ (not into a church but ito Jesus Christ our Lord)--And remain Faithful until the end and you will receive the 'Gift' of eternal life. ("Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a 'few' find it." (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV) Search for that narrow road today by reading and studying God's Word.

teeghe · Feb 5, 2008, 09:22 AM

Christian beliefs work on LOVE and not hate. Read both the Bible and The Kuran for yourself. As far as religion is concerned, there will be NO religion in Heaven just the worship of GOD.

teeghe · Feb 5, 2008, 09:29 AM

If you want a simple answer--Christianiaty. But that is just an opinion.

Donna Mae · Feb 5, 2008, 12:39 PM

Lots of people think that just accepting Christ will get them to heaven. Please read God's word. Doing God's will--will get you to heaven. God asks us to Repent, Confess, be Baptized (into Christ), and never depart from His word. This will get you to heaven.

Fr_Chuck · Feb 5, 2008, 01:05 PM

Ok Donna, my favorite, the man on the cross, was never baptised, did he go to heaven

A man accepts Christ, but dies in a car wreck before he can get baptised.

While yes, we are to do all of those, if you would read ALL of the bible, you would also find that just accepting is what saves. Works do not save, and living a certain life ( which we should) also does not save.

Donna Mae · Feb 5, 2008, 05:43 PM

[QUOTE=Fr_Chuck] the man on the cross, was never baptised, did he go to heaven

I am not sure which man on the cross you are speaking of. I'm assuming you meant the thief because we all know that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Matt. 3:13-17

I believe the only thing we know about the thief on the cross is what God chose to tell us in Luke 23:32-43. And this tells us nothing of his past. It is possible that this man could have been baptized by John and later gone astray. But even if he wasn't, anything is possible with God. But I can't say that he will be saved. No one can. Jesus told him He would see him in paradise, He didn't say heaven. When we die we will all go to paradise or hades. We won't see heaven or hell until the judgement day when Jesus returns in the clouds, and neither will the thief.

Only God knows a man's heart and if he dies on the way to being baptized it is possible for God to save him. But why would anyone take the chance of being saved without baptism? When God's word tells us what we must do to be saved.

You are right, works do not save (baptism is not works), but living a life for Christ and doing what he tells us to do, can.

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Matt. 28:19-20

"And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on His name."
Acts 22:16

Galveston1 · Feb 5, 2008, 06:10 PM

Obviously, I vote for Christianity. For several reasons. These are not all, but some reasons. 1. The Holy Book. The Q'ran was written by one man, Mohammed. The Bible was written by many (Holy Spirit inspired) men over the period of about 2.000 years, and form the basis for Christianity. 2. The fruit of the belief. Christians do not engage in terrorism, any person claiming to be Christian who does so is promptly denounced as false. As to religious persecution by something claiming to be the church, that orginazation never was Christian. Christians do not strap bombs to children or mentally challenged people and send them into crowds. Now I know that the majority of Muslims will never do such a thing, and some are vocally condemning such acts. Nevertheless, those who do them find justification in their Holy Book. Even the crusades were an act of declared war, not terrorism. 3. Better promises. The teachings of Christianity teach salvation based solely on faith, not works. (I think works may be the basis of many religions) Not to say that works are unimportant once that a person has been saved.

Fr_Chuck · Feb 5, 2008, 08:03 PM

I will even go there, Jesus baptism, since he was not bapitised in the Name of the Father , Son and Holy spirit, today there is few christian churches that would accept Jesus baptism valid if it was done today.
Heck many don't accept baptisms of other Christian churches.

So I guess Jesus would have to get re=baptised to join most christian churches today?

Just trying to show you that the bible is not as direct as you appear to have been taught by your denomination. All of your points are good and need to be done, but you are restricting the truth of salvation which is really dangerous to the faith of some.