Like many of you, the numerous and complex elements of our human condition are vital matters to me.

That there are no answers for man, by man, is abysmally plain. We observe the vain and ignorant efforts by men to attain peace and satisfaction that sticks, while grabbing for the gusto, all at once.

While some fault 'original sin', you may blame something else. Human nature has changed because human beings rejected and disconnected from the original state of their birth. A behavior and life lived contrary to our nature is exactly sin.

I see that many people express a spirituality that is wide open. It calls simply for a belief in an all-good god ready to welcome anyone who has good intentions.

How silly would it be to call the Uncreated God, the 'All-Wise Father', for wringing out His own heart in sending Jesus to die for every person, if a mere affirmative agreement to 'believe we are all one in His mercy', was sufficient?

Every and all help of returning to our original state of union in God; philosophies, religions, astrologies, cults, rituals and secret knowledge, however intriguing and mysterious, are futile efforts of man to attain a higher state.

A creature fallen into a lower state of life loses its power to reclaim what he forfeited.

Why Jesus?

Because it's all about nature.

The breach sin caused is, by nature, impossible to repair.

If we don't get this, we never get God.

The human race became dead to God.

The sole, eternally appointed propitiation (atonement) for sin is Jesus Christ.

It had to be God's solution.

The solution had to be a Son of Man - of like nature, who stood as the sinless representative of the race.

A true man, righteous in the original God-like state, to take to Himself the entirety of the sin nature - that which severed mankind from the righteous image and likeness of God. Who willingly surrendered His life - spilling His life blood - for the sin of every person.

No person ever entered the earth with the claims of Jesus.

"I am the beginning and the end."
"I Am the way, the truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." "If you believe in Me, you will never die."
Who could say such things?!

What man or woman with an ounce of courage or integrity would not challenge and investigate such claims?

None of what Jesus said was to exclude men from the Heaven He brought, yet nothing He said would be relevant to them apart from God's life being opened into them by a new birth.

Jesus, did countless miracles: healing, casting out demons, stopping storms at sea, raising dead people to life. He displayed dominion over this natural realm in every way. Does this not distinguish Him from all others? Does it not, at least, verify His claims as Savior of the World and Lord of all Lords?

Put forward, 'truth-seekers', your champion of words that even dares look in the face of the resurrected Christ who holds the Keys to death and life.

Jesus never called men and women to reformation or reconstruction. It was, and is, impossible!

He called them to be born again into a whole new creation. To throw off the old (dead) man, and enter an entirely new, eternal reality. Right Now!

Until this experience is entered by intentional faith, the Bible, its teachings and principles, has no more effect on people than any other 'rules to live by.'

Everything Jesus said and did is fitted for and applicable to the New Nature - the man or woman made entirely new by a birth of the Spirit of Life in Christ.

None of this is a matter of having the right creed or medicine, or self-help principles. Though men apply these diligently, they are futile in spite of the temporary appearance of change and stability.

That right there, IS the lie.
That IS the prison of men.
The astoundingly absurd notion that he may, by his own devises, transform himself.

Though he put on a skin-diving suit, fins and air tanks to explore the ocean depths, at last he must resurface and see that he has no scales; that he is no more a fish now, than ever he was before.