Why Christianity is not another religion but a relationship...

Christianity is the fullness and completeness of all religions and philosophies. It is the culmination of everything into one. God became man in Christ to lead all men to Himself. And this follows from John 14:6 when Christ says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." This is not just another philosophical or religious statement of existence or law of living but the very God who created the universe and calls us forth to come forward. We are called to return to our natural natures. We as prodigal sons are now adopted sons in Christ and through Christ. The way to Heaven has been opened to us as heirs of the promise of Abraham's seed. But as children still in this fallen existence, the law has not been destroyed for us. It has been made better by Jesus Christ. The law of death and decay have not vanished, but only been made more tolerable and understandable through hope and faith. Jesus has trampled death and shown it to be nothing. For in the old we had the law and now we have grace. The Law was of rougher things, but grace is of softer things. The former was of works not reachable and the latter of Grace unfathomable. Jesus did not just bring another philosophy and religion into the world; He brought us a living relationship to God the Father of all for eternity. Through Christ, we begin to heal ourselves internally where the heart is and as we change at the center so we begin to change the world at its center. We come to know God in the flesh, in history, in the personal, and in the spiritual.This is why a small band of simple men turned the Roman world upside down and changed the course of human civilization forever.



But as adopted sons, we are still servants in this world to the law and to government for a time... not one iota of the law has been removed... but as child heirs we await the appointed time of the Father…


Galatians 3:23-4:5

King James Version (KJV)

²³But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

²⁴Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

²⁵But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

²⁶For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 4

¹Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

²But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

³Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

⁴But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.