This is not about self-righteousness or shoving religion down your throat. This cannot be a forced decision--it's yours to make. Our purpose here is to gently share with you the Gospel which has given us hope.

You've probably heard it before, and we'll explain it in more detail later on this page, but the gospel, in a nutshell, goes like this:

At least, not since Adam & Eve sinned. Therefore, we are separated from God by our sin and have absolutely no way to make ourselves holy enough to enter heaven to be with God. (Romans 3:23) The sin of mankind, which we all carry, results in death. (Romans 6:23)

For another example, think of a beautiful, bright white carpet. Part of what makes the carpet so beautiful is the fact that it is so white. Now, think of yourself covered with mud from head to toe. You can't walk on the carpet without the carpet being ruined. The carpet can't continue to be white if you walk on it. Therefore, you can't walk on the white carpet. God is holy, and can only remain holy if we are kept away from Him. But check out what's next...

God anticipated this. So, He set His divine plan in motion. God's only Son, Jesus Christ, is the Savior whom God sent to restore us. Jesus is the Son of God and is "One with the Father." (John 10:30) This Scripture verse, along with many others, make one thing clear. Jesus is God.

The trouble was, men couldn't keep up with their own sin. Try as they might, they could not, from their own effort, earn their salvation. That, in fact, is exactly what God wanted to teach the Jews for all the world, including ourselves, to see.

Jesus came to be our sacrifice. Once for all, the death of God Himself as a sacrifice for all the world's sin, past, present and future, would atone for all the sins of the world.

One way is for each person to die because of their own sin and never enter the presence of God. The other way is for someone who is perfect--someone who is holy--someone who is actually God Himself, to die in our place.

Jesus took our place and died for us. Our sins (our wrongdoings and basic tendencies toward rebellion) are like an enormous debt that we each owe, and if the debt is not paid in full by the deadline, we face execution. It's a scary concept, but don't worry.

Jesus can pay all of our debts for us! Now, we can choose for ourselves. We can either choose to pay our own debt and then discover that we don't have enough to cover it and be executed, or we can let Jesus pay our debts for us! You see, the penalty for our sin is death, but Jesus bore that penalty for everyone who loves Him. (Romans 6:23)

Think about what this means to you! Not only has Jesus paid for your sin, He defeated death for you! If He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, so will you! There, for all eternity, you can be with Him after you die!

You see, Jesus' death for you is a gift of love, but the gift can't be yours unless you claim it as yours! Unless you acknowledge that Jesus is God, that you are a sinner who needs the forgiveness Jesus purchased for you, and that you love God and will commit to loving Him, Jesus' gift cannot be yours!

So, who loves him? Those who obey Him--that's who! You see, Jesus loves us, but He's still God. We show Him our love by being obedient to Him and doing things to make Him happy. We can't fake that, by the way. Jesus knows who really loves Him and who doesn't.

In other words, you and I are sinners, unable to be with God. But by believing in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior (accepting Him as the Son of the one true God, promising to obey Him and love Him, acknowledging and repenting of your own sin and accepting that Jesus' death paid the price for your sin) you can be made holy and can therefore enter heaven after you die.

Q. How do we know that there really is a God?
A. Think about that sense of right and wrong that we all have. We all have certain expectations of each other to treat one another fairly which cannot be explained by evolutionary theory or instinct. If right and wrong were instincts, they would be designed to serve our own needs. It might be right for us to beat up someone smaller than we are to take their food. It would be the other person's instinct, therefore, to fight back. Yet, humans seem to have an unspoken agreement that it would be morally wrong for one person to steal food from another. There exists within each of us a sense of right and wrong. Anytime people fight, it is because somebody thinks somebody else has violated this standard of right and wrong that we all have inside of us. If we as humans were simply the result of evolution brought about by random events of nature, we could not have this sense of right and wrong embedded in our hearts.
 
Then, there's, Darwin's evolutionary theory. While we do not dispute that minor changes do occur in species such as size variations and changes in color, Darwin's theory proposes that evolution causes upward changes in species, causing them to become more complex over time. Furthermore, Darwin believed that man evolved from apes, contrary to the Biblical account of creation. Darwin's theory, often incorrectly presented as scientific fact, violates many of the principles that define science itself. While we must acknowledge that belief in God stems from faith, evolutionists often insist that theirs is a scientific truth, and state this quite incorrectly. Scientific method involves a problem, an hypothesis, repeatable and observable experimentation, and then the conclusion.

Evolutionary theory never gets past step two of this process, because it is impossible to observe or repeat the origin of the universe. Evolutionary theory instead jumps to step four--the conclusion, and attempts to compile data that seems to support that conclusion–sometimes fraudulantly! That is not science. In the end, evolutionary theory is built upon assumptions (that there is no God and that the formation of the universe and of humanity came about without design by random events.) Given this assumption, it is easy to see why events that face such astronomical odds of happening are given consideration--it is the only alternative that seems to make sense. Of course, it really doesn't make sense at all. In the end, evolutionism is not science at all, but a religion--based upon faith that certain things took place billions of years ago. It is completely invalid as a science. In fact, evolutionary theory, with it's presumptions of miraculous acts of chance resulting in organized life over billions of years can, from a certain point of view, only testify to evolutionists' belief that something much bigger than we are is behind this universe we live in. The only difference is that their faith is in an improbable turn of events, while a Christian's faith is in an omnipotent God.
 
Furthermore, without a divine creator, are all our lives not meaningless? And so, although we cannot prove to you in tangible form that God exists, it is quite a logical belief.
 

Q. How can we be sure that Jesus is the ONLY way to heaven? What about all those other religions?
A. This one is a hot potato. We do not want to offend, but what the Bible says about this is offensive to many people. If you are offended by this, we encourage you to set it aside for a moment and examine the logic. Then, draw your own conclusion. First, we must understand that Christianity is completely incompatible with all other faiths. The reason is Jesus Christ Himself.

In John 14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Jesus, who claimed to be God, said that there was no other way to heaven except through Him. That statement must either be true or false. If it is false, then Jesus was lying, and was therefore not a good man, not god, and not worthy of our attention. If His statement is false, faith in such a man would be a pointless waste of time, and no such faith could get us to heaven. If Jesus was lying, then other faiths should be considered as a means of salvation. If, on the other hand, Jesus' statements were true, then we must take Him at His Word--that He is the only way to heaven, and requiring the exclusion of other faiths from consideration as a means of salvation. Jesus must therefore be either the only way to God, as He said, or no way to God at all. Christianity cannot be one of many paths to heaven. It is either the only path, or a dead end.
 
Q. What about people out in the jungle who have never heard of Jesus? Will they go to hell?
A. In Romans 1:20, it says that God has made himself known to everyone through His creation. Indeed, we all know that a divine mind is behind this wondrous world we live in. As for the specifics of salvation through Jesus Christ, everyone who seeks Him finds Him. (Matthew 7:8) If a man way out in the middle of nowhere has never heard of the gospel of Jesus Christ, he cannot be saved apart from Him. However, if that man, knowing in his heart that there is a God, seeks after God, the Lord will provide a way for this man to come to Christ and accept Jesus as his Savior. God could do any number of things to help such a man learn about Jesus, including sending a Christian into this man's life at some point, or perhaps allowing this man to come across a Bible, or perhaps even a web site on the internet! The point is, every person is given what they need to be aware of the existence of God, and anyone who seeks this God earnestly will be provided a way (whether they choose to follow it or not) to learn about Jesus Christ.
 

Got More Questions?
Got more questions? Read the Bible. Get involved with a Bible-teaching church. The answers are there. And if you'd like to discuss some of these things with us, just e-mail us and tell us what's on your mind. We want you to have the same wonderful gift of salvation that Jesus has given to us--and is offering to you!