Today many people reject the claim that Jesus is the only way to God. They feel it would be unfair of God to refuse to admit into heaven someone just because that person sought Him through a religion other than Christianity.
God sent His Son Jesus to earth to live a perfect life and to never sin, then, in the end, to be rejected, brutally beaten, and crucified. Crucifixion is the cruelest form of capital punishment ever devised. Was any of this fair? Jesus, who was sinless, took upon Himself the sins of the world and died for the guilty, making it possible for them to be forgiven and to receive eternal life, even though they actually deserve eternal punishment in hell. None of this is fair, and we can thank God it isn’t. Grace isn’t fair, and those who trust Christ are its undeserving beneficiaries!
Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler, Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door, (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1992), 99-102.
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