30/11/2024
“No Religion can save you!; Religion cannot save you!”
As a Believer, how often has this argument been brought up to you?
To begin this discussion, we must first understand the root meaning of religion.
Religion comes from the Greek word threskeia, which was later translated into Latin as religio. From religio, the English word religion was formed. The prefix re means "again," and ligio comes from ligare, meaning "to tie." Therefore, the word religion can be understood to mean "to tie again".
To sum it up, religion is not synonymous with a church, denomination, sect, or affiliation. This is a common misconception. Rather, true religion is a relationship—a personal reconnection, “TO TIE AGAIN” with God through His Only Begotten Son.
Therefore, We need RELIGION TO BE SAVE! The one and only TRUE RELIGION.
Why do we need Religion—to tie again with Him?
In the beginning, God created man. They were created sinless. God, Adam, and Eve has a perfect fellowship and right relationship with each other. But when Satan tricked them with fruit of knowledge, they both committed sin against God, they disobeyed Him. By that, their perfect fellowship and right relationship with each other was enough to break by only one sin and suffered from death penalty, which is spiritual death. And because we are separated with God, our immediate need therefore is TO BE TIED BACK to God before physical death comes. Man needs the true Re-Ligio—true tie again.
How to tie again with Him?
We are now sinners because of what Adam and Eve committed, we cannot reconnect to God in our own way. Why? because as I said, WE ARE SINNER while He is not. We fall short in His Glory. We cannot wash our own sin, so the need is The Sinless One.
God, in His love for us, sinners, He sent the Sinless One to the earth, the Lord Jesus Christ. The true “tie again” (re-ligio) was all arranged by God. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son…”. He died for us, the ungodly. And when He died on the cross, He shed His precious blood, and that Blood of the Lamb has the power to cleanse any repentant sinners from all his sins, thus removing every single sin that separates him from God.
• To repent
• To accept
• To tie again
Therefore, Christ, who died and shed His Blood, is the TRUE RELIGION- the true “TIE AGAIN” of man to God.
Go back to the argument and reflect.
Are you saved by RE-LIGIOn or not?
