Only one way

To a logical thinking person, it seems rather harsh for the Christians to believe that only through Jesus Christ can a person be saved. For 4,000 years men never heard of Jesus because he had not come to earth yet and in the two thousand years since he came, many have never heard of him nor have had the opportunity of hearing about him.

Yet the most well-known defenders of the faith will quote you the scriptures where it is written that only through Christ can a person receive salvation. "There is no other namr under heaven whereby a man can be saved. Whereby through one man sin came into the world; by one man can sin be taken away."

The bible, the holy word of God, days that we must accept Christ as our saviour in order to reeive salvation and that there is no other way. If God said it, then far be it from me to disagree. Bibical scholars and church leaders all agree that there is no other way.

But the Old Testament saints received salvation without ever hearing about Jesus. How?

It is said that their faith was counted for their rightousness. If this was done for them, why not for others. Does not the Psalmist claim that nature teaches us that God exists? So if a man accepts what nature teaches, is he not accepting what God wants him too?

There is another verse that is never quoted in dealing with this subject and that is "In the beginning was the Word...." This verse tells us that Jesus Christ is the word of God and is God, and has been God from the beginning. I believe that God speaks to man through the Bible, through nature, through other people, and through other works. One may not reognize the voice as that of Jesus but ony as the voice of God, or the word of God, or the sign of God or however one comes to the knowledge and acceptance that there is but one true Lord, that acceptance came to them as a truth from God. That truth is the Word, which is Jesus Christm our Lord and Saviour.

Just like the N.O. Saints beat the Colts in the 2010 Super Bowl is truth, that truth may have come to us because we saw the game live, we watched it on TV, we read it in the paper, we heard it on the radio, or some one told us, we got word somehow that the Saints won, the same is true about God and salvation: salvation only comes by accepting the word of God and that word is Jesus Christ, but that word came come to us in many different ways.