There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death. (Prov. 14:12) Lest we all perish, Yeshua HaMashiach came from heaven to show us the way of Salvation, which means following his teachings and to know him intimately as a person. (John 14:6)
Where did we come into the world?
Science cannot give a reasoned answer to that, but through faith in the revelation of the Bible, we can trust that our Creator has created us for the purpose he wants. So we are basically lost and we strive to get clarity on the real reason and meaning of our life and existence.
Too many people are content to follow the people of their reference group like herd animals, and don't spend much time thinking about their existence. I think it would be wiser to honestly state that many things have gone fundamentally wrong in humanity. It is too naive to blame other people for the many things we are all guilty of.
Although not all of us are guilty of brutal violence, stealing, the pursuit of money and self-respect or other numerous extremely bad deeds. Each of us is still guilty of setting many bad goals for ourselves at the expense of other people. The whole business life is based on getting rich at the expense of customers.
From the beginning, human life is like choosing one's own path in different stages of our life. Of course, it matters a lot what country and what kind of family we are born into, because living conditions and choices are very different. You often hear it said that it is a lottery win to be born in a rich western country.
That is what it is, but it also makes us responsible for the poor in developing countries and those who have become refugees for various reasons, who strive to save their own lives to move away from the misery and persecution of their homeland to freer nations and conditions. Unfortunately, many rich Western countries treat them with disdain.
Why are we really here?
According to the revelation of the New Testament, all people who are born of the will of flesh and blood are born under original sin. In that state, they are all truly on their way to perdition, eternal separation from their Creator. They wander lost without a purpose and a goal in their lives. They are like sheep without a shepherd.
Just for us and for those like us, our dear heavenly Father has seen fit already in eternity to prepare a perfect opportunity to be saved by believing in the only begotten Son whom he sent, named Yeshua HaMashiach, who was born here by his will as an otherwise ordinary human being, except that he did not sin at all.
We are only on this beautiful planet temporarily so that each of us can choose to believe in our Savior Yeshua or reject him and have to survive on our own. It is an irreversible disaster to reject Yeshua as Savior and resort to our own works because they are all unclean and unworthy in the eyes of our Creator.
We must definitely choose the right way!
While witnessing on the streets, I have heard several different explanations for why people cannot believe in the Creator revealed in the Bible. The majority of respondents claim after reading the Bible, or part of it, that the Creator it reveals is so cruel that they don't want to have anything to do with him, because he will throw so many people into hell.
They have not understood at all the Salvation message, which is a genuine good news for all people: "Every person who believes in his heart that Yeshua HaMashiach is Adonai and confesses him with his mouth as his Adonai, will be saved!" Man receives salvation as a gift from our Creator's unfathomable grace, without any merit of his own!
They don't even believe that the very same Creator who was first tortured almost to death and then nailed naked to a cross to hang in terrible agony for six long hours before dying, was their Creator, Yeshua HaMashiach! This is evident from the Tanakh and the Writings of the New Testament. We read four passages from it:
Jes. 52:l3-15 >>13 "Look, my servant will succeed! He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted - 14 (just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man; 15 his form was so marred he no longer looked human - so now he will startle many nations. Kings will be shocked by his exaltation, for they will witness something unannounced to them, and they will understand something they had not heard about.<< Adonai Yeshua was our substitute sacrifice before our heavenly Father while nailed to the cross.
Ps. 110:1 >>A psalm of David. Here is Yehowah's proclamation to my Adonai: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"<< In the verse, the Father tells his Son that he will put his enemies under his feet.
Ps. 110:1 >>A psalm of David. Here is Yehowah's proclamation to my Adonai: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"<< In the verse, the Father tells his Son that he will put his enemies under his feet.
John 1:10-11 >>10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.<< Adonai Yeshua had no obligation to come among people to be mocked, tortured, nailed to a cross. He came here to save us because he loved us, the works of his hands, so much and still does! He really loves all people!
Hebr. 1:1-3 >>1 After Elohim spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets, 2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the worlds.*) 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.<<
*) The words "through whom he created the worlds" can also be translated "through whom he created the ages". Those "ages" include the days of all people's lives from Adam to the death of the last person on earth.
There is only one way to the glory of heaven and we must choose it as the Bible teaches. Other roads should be abandoned. It makes no sense to walk with the spirit of darkness of this world and the ways it offers, because they all lead the people to eternal separation from our Creator. They will take you to a place of eternal suffering, hell!
We must be born again from above
This can only happen by believing in the name of our Heavenly Father's Son: Yeshua HaMashiach. Then the miracle of new birth takes place, about which the apostle John wrote: John 1:11-13
>>11 He (Yeshua) came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who have received him - those who believe in his name - he has given the right to become Elohim's children 13 - children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by Elohim.<< The name to believe is Yeshua HaMashiach, And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
All the descendants of Adam and Eve, except Eve's descendant Yeshua HaMashiach, are born under original sin and unless they accept Adonai Yeshua in faith, they will be deprived of the opportunity and power to become children of Elohim. Then they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, for unclean flesh and blood cannot inherit it.
That is why Yeshua HaMashiach is the only way to our heavenly Father in the glory of heaven. Numerous world religions lead billions of people astray by promising them salvation or rebirth as, for example, an animal. According to NT, that is not true, but we live here only once! After that we will be judged: Hebr. 9:27-28
>>27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment, 28 so also, after HaMashiach was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.<<
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