WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Nothing else matters apart from the atonement wrought by the Cross of Christ. Atonement means “the action of making amends for a wrong doing or injury”.
Our sins separate us from Holy God who cannot look upon sin or allow anything sinful into His presence. His justice demands that reparation be made for wrong doing. All sin is wrong. There is no such thing as “major or minor sins” a man made distinction that gives away the man made theology of Islam.
Surah 4:31 ““If you shun the great sins which you are forbidden, We will do away with your small sins and cause you to enter an honorable place of entering.” (Shakir)
It bears repeating; a holy and just God cannot just brush sins under the carpet by “doing away with them” as happens in the make believe world of Islam.
There is certainly no such thing as transforming sins into good deeds as if by magic (Surah 25:68-71). This too is delusional fantasy.
It took ONE sin to bring the Fall of humanity and eternal separation from God.
If our very best is as filthy rags to Holy God (Isaiah 64:6) is the pinnacle of our best, we don’t need to be told how God regards our worst. Scripture clearly teaches the doctrine of total depravity which is nowhere in the Quran.
The dark and sinister reality of sin infected mankind from the very opening moments of human history, and was swiftly unmasked as mankind’s rejection of God and our opposition to Him. Divine Revelation illuminates the source and origin of wickedness, which can be found in the course of the lives of our First Parents. It came from rebellion against God.
It cannot be attributed to behavioural mistakes, developmental flaws, inherent weakness or psychological illness, as Muslims suggest or would have us believe. Sin is a heart deficiency not just a behavioural or environmental deficiency. We are all born with a moral deficiency of “heart disease”, that is a predisposition and predilection to sin.
“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5)
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.” (Matthew 15:19-20)
“Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.) Then He said, “What comes out of a person — that defiles him. For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.” (Mark 7:15, 18-23)
Jesus just said that what we eat can never make us unclean. Its our hearts that make us unclean not what passes through the stomach. (Islam’s antithetical stance would have us believe its the opposite).
As the saying goes “we are not sinners because we sin (the Muslim position), rather we sin because we are sinners (the Biblical position)”.
All of mankind is adopted into the sin of Adam by birth, just as mankind is adopted into the Church through faith in Christ Jesus, and baptism in His name. By virtue of Christ’s Passion, we are offered restoration to a moral life full of obedience to faith as our first obligation. By daily living in remembrance of God’s gift of self-sacrifice we abide in hope and reveal His majesty to others in acts of charity, and are made whole. The Original Sin of Adam shamed Man with the inheritance of a joyless and frightful legacy. Christ emancipated His creation from the despair of separation from God and the degenerate presumption that salvation is attained through our own capacities.
There is only condemnation if you deny the cross and the crucifixion. Nothing we do will ever be enough to “earn” our way into heaven. You believe in One God, well even the demons believe in One God. Recognizing that God is one means nothing if you deny His Only-Begotten Son.
What separates the believer from the unbeliever is recognizing that Christ is the divine Son of God who took on flesh out of love for our salvation. Christ voluntarily took on human form for our salvation so that we could come before God without being condemned.
You just know this is important and destroys Satan’s power because of the resounding silence and total absence of this teaching about the seriousness of sin, our inherent sinful nature and the need for atonement in the Quran. Since denial of the crucifixion removes any basis for atonement, the Quran is forced to ignore it, because merely to mention it, opens a can of worms and would be an admission of a gross error of omission and denial.
Make no mistake: #OnlyTheCrossSaves