religion

From the ghetto to the mansion, from community leader to prisoner on death row, man wonders if there is a God. And if there is, what is He like? Whatever period of history we study, whatever culture we examine, if we look back in time we see all peoples, primitive or modern, acknowledging some kind of deity. Some people give up the pursuit of God in frustration, calling themselves __theists_ or __gnostics,_ professing to be irreligious.

Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult.

I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering . . . I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, __ove your neighbor as yourself.

Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.

There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim . . . we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.

Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.

You can have religion but not know Christ. It__ having Christ that counts.

Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.

The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.

I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep__ clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.

Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the __eligions_ of the world, God__ way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.

In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god . . . the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God__t least not until Christ returns.

A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God__ original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!

Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him__ot to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands__or our confidence in the future.

Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again.

Many evidences and arguments suggest God__ existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!

All false religions cut away parts of God__ revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God__ revelation in the Bible.