Recovered In Christ

With all due respect, Truth is one, and the path is one, and we should be wary of the path we choose, and not choose it according to what feels right to us. If you went to an airport and asked to go to Rome and they said “jump on any plane and it will get you to Rome!” you would know inherently that would be untrue. So how, when it comes to God can we say that the paths which all are 100% completely different narratives would take us to the same place, when the “places” each teacher, philosopher or Religion speak about are all so different? Is God so fickle? So whatever my interpretation is, is truth?

That’s so convenient, because if I feel that way then I will inherently create God as I want Him to be, as opposed to how He is. This will remove my accountability and subsequently His holiness. The Bible says that we are not to lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)  and that indeed human wisdom is like a leaf blowing in the wind, and is quite meaningless. (1 Cor 1:25) For example, Hindus believe in Pantheism, up to 300 million deities alone, then Buddha comes and diverts from Hinduism and creates Buddhism, and tells us that our soul is to be reincarnated up to 357 times to reach “enlightenment”, yet Buddha says we can do this on our own will and strength, thus taking us back to SELF.

Jesus says we cannot do it alone and that He is The Vine, The Bread, The Living water, that life without Him spells death. (John 15:5, John 6:35, John 4:14) All these teachers were mere humans on the quest for truth, but Jesus Christ was not a man searching for truth, He claimed to BE truth, and as He said to Pontius Pilate “My Kingdom is not of this world”.  (John 14:6, John 18:36) Jesus spoke truth that included ALL people (Galatians 3:28) but the truth itself was exclusive, this is why He said the gate is narrow and FEW enter by it. (Matt 7:13) Powerful words, a sword that cuts to the core of our humanity and false notions, it’s challenging. This is why He was dragged to the Cross…because either Jesus was a mad man or He is exactly who He says He is…and if he Resurrected, then how can all paths be the same?

Jesus says our soul is here one time and will be judged once. (Hebrews 9:27) Mohammad says that Jesus was a prophet and God “hid him from the Cross” thus denying that Jesus died for our sins . Allah and The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are not the same God. Allah is an impersonal force  that commands followers to  pray X amount of times a day and do many “works” to go to the afterlife, and believe me, Mohammad had no idea where he stood with Allah at the end of his life. Jesus says that works alone are not enough and that it’s His death on the cross that saves us, so that we know EXACTLY where we stand with God at all times. This creates an eternal comfort that no other philosophy, religion or person has brought to this world. So how, can there be one truth and many paths? This is not to say that we are not to love one another despite our different paths…but to say they are all the same would be indeed to discount the absolute truths claimed by them all.

The Holy Bible is God’s narrative, filled with hundreds of fulfilled prophecies that lead straight to Jesus and God says in Deuteronomy that we will know He is speaking because He will tell us what the future holds…no other book, the Vedas, Buddhism, Paganism, New Ageism, The Gnostics, The Qu’ran, speak into the future, at all. The Holy Bible does with 100% flawless Precision, and no other book would DARE present something like The Book of Revelation. That being said, we are called to choose our Narrative of God and to do so wisely…either we exist in Karma or we exist in Grace. Because I am such a sinner by nature and have been my entire life, I needed the grace. My soul was sick and Christ was the remedy.

Mariah Greenberg Roncetti