Eternity By Default
This came in from Daily Wisdom this AM and I KNOW it is worth sharing, so give it a read and a think. Links added by Swap Blog.
Universalism, Edgar Cayce, the Bahai Faith and Jesus can’t all be right. You can take the good from each and form your own religious mix, but at some point you’ll have to face the fact that some things are right and some are wrong. Not just “wrong for you,” but in order for some things to be true, some other things must simply be false. They’re not relative truths.
There can be black, there can be white and there can be any color in between. These are relative.
But you can’t have a body and not have a body at the same time. You can’t have a soul and not have a soul at the same time. You either have one or you don’t. You can’t be alive and dead at the same time. You’re one or the other. These are not relative truths.
And if you’re stuck on a cliff with nowhere to go but down, and a truck is coming to run you down, you can either pitch off the cliff or not. You can’t do both. But if you choose not to, the decision will be made for you by default.
Either Jesus died in your place and rose again or He didn’t. You must decide. If you decide He didn’t, go ahead and take the good from all those religions because your decision implies that there are no eternal consequences anyway. But if He did, you can’t simply take from Him what you like and leave the rest. Because if He did, you must conclude that He is God. And God is, by nature, Absolute Truth. But at all costs, come to some conclusion. Don’t let your eternity be decided by default.
