Made-Up Religion Is Convenient

If man were to make up a religion, it probably wouldn’t look like any of the religions you see today. It certainly would not look like christianity. Christianity is the only religion that does not involve man earning his way to heaven or paradise. ALL of the others give man a chance on his own, if he can be good enough. Christianity blatantly says that no one is good enough. But it does provide a Savior, who was prophesied of and met every prophecy about himself even to the point of his death being done in public for the whole world to see. To really cause an uproar and to show this Lord Jesus Christ to be all that, he was resurrected to life. His true life lives on through his followers. A man-made religion would be more like this. A world just happens to come into existence by a series of amazing coincidences. We are just stuff, thus we don’t really matter; nor does what we do matter. We are the end-product of chance. Albeit some very hard-to-believe (Cosmic explosions, walking catfish, apes to men kind of stuff) evolution of dust particles to intelligent beings without the hand of a Creator, thus no ONE to answer to when it comes to our morals. It requires belief, but it is quite convenient. Thus, we can live like we want to. “No one is the boss of me.” In a world like this there is no absolute truth, no right and wrong. There is only your truth and my truth. So I can do what I want. ---That is the kind of religion man would make up. It would be an “If it feels good, do it” kind of religion. There is no way man would make up a religion that places himself in second or third place. By nature, we want it all. We want first place. We want the biggest piece of the pie. ---So, when someone tells me that man made up christianity to feel good about himself or to rule over other people...please! It is a call to live for the One who died for us and rose again. It is a call to bring others into His kingdom. It’s a different way of life. It is counter-cultural. It is not about me. It is a better way of life. More than this life, the acceptance of Jesus’ great sacrifice offers eternal life. So, you can choose your convenient untruth or the inconvenient truth. But when it comes to making a religion, you better check your dust particles.