NCarolinian

Of all the things and people to believe in today, Christ Jesus is The Difference. So, many faiths require you to work toward your salvation, if it is truly obtainable in the end. Jesus Christ only asks you to accept His love gift - His very life, death, and lifestyle to be a part of His family. Jesus is The Difference among other gods and He made The Difference to those who would believe in Him. Christ could have just lived the perfect, Godly obedient life while displaying God's power of miracles through Him and teach God's Word only to die a martyr's death. History would not have a Savior if this were the case.  When John recorded Christ's last moments on the Cross, he stated, "When He [Christ] had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." (John 19:30) . The phrase "It is finished" in the original language is teleo (tel-eh'-o) meaning paid or to discharge a debt . ...

In John 5:44-47 , Jesus said to the Jewish religious leaders of the day -  "How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" Between the time that The Law and all the prophecies about The Messiah were written and the time Jesus arrived, many individuals in history claimed to be The Anointed One of God; The Messiah; The Savior. Every one of these claims failed to be supported. However, Jesus Christ of Nazareth not only backed up His own words as He spoke them, but fulfilled His prophetic Word spoken years earlier through the prophets by fulfilling everything written about The Christ. Here in this confrontation with the Pharisees, Jesus att...