The Simple Truth by Matt Leasher

In a world full of spiritual diversity the general consensus of the way to salvation has always been a subject of conclusive differences. One of the main culprits to this confusion is the many different religions and denominations within those religions that propose their manmade doctrines of how man can earn his way to heaven.

If so many different faiths and religions have their own conclusion as to the way to salvation then how do we know who is right? They can't all be right? Surely the Lord Himself would not leave us unknowingly stranded with something as important as how we can spend eternal life in His presence. So then how do we know what the Lord has to say about this issue? The answer is simple and the source for that answer is obvious – The Bible!

You say, but the Bible was written by men! That is the classic cop-out for many that breeze through the Bible like its a doctor's office magazine and claim that they have evaluated it to be false or errant. The person that studies the Scriptures humbly seeking God won't take long to hear God speaking to him through His Words and will soon see that there is no way that men on their own accord could have compiled those 66 books to reveal God in the way that they do. Even if God Himself wrote the entire Bible in the presence of the whole world it would only take one or two generations later, (that didn't physically see Him do it), to deny that He did it. So it is only natural that the Lord would have His children write down His Words at His dictation via the Holy Spirit.

With that said, it only seems logical that we turn to God's Word for the answer to the way to salvation, (and almost all other issues as well). In turning to the Word of God we find that the answer to the way of salvation is a simple one:

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

There you have it! Jesus is the way to heaven. This statement from Jesus is case closed. You say,...