Justice requires the cross [Rom 4]

Why is Christianity but the only way to salvation? Why do I argue that we should not engage with other faiths, nor accept their narratives, nor let them preach, nor pray?

Why should we pray for their salvation and for the evangelists who work with them?

Why do not we accept this is hatespeech and quietly enter the community of faith?

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All the other religions are based on law. We have the law within us, and from that we get our sense of justice. We want games to be fair: we want the judge to be disinterested in the cirucumstances of the person but very interested in if the crime was committed.

Though there is hope in what we do for good, what we do for bad outweighs it, and therefore Christ was needed. If there was an alternative Christ would nave not needed to come.

Matthew 10:40-42

40“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple — truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

 

Romans 4:13-25

13For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

16For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, 17as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”) — in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 18Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “So numerous shall your descendants be.” 19He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. 20No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 22Therefore his faith “was reckoned to him as righteousness.” 23Now the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone, 24but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Christianity is not a religion. Religions work by appeasing an angry God by good acts or sacrifice: so that the tribe can be sustained or your salvation assured, or you escape the turmoil of this world, which is seen as a living hell.

Christianity is about Christ. The other relitions are about the law. They will end to error, and they will align with the narrative of this world and if you follow them you will be destroyed.

So do not give them a place in society. Do not be them. Do not be like them.