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No all religions are true.
The holy scriptures teach
- Many are polytheistic.
- Some are centred on a philosophy rather than on gods and goddesses.
- Several are centred on one God yet deny that Jesus is God incarnate and the Christ long anticipated in ancient Israel's religion.
The holy scriptures teach
- Some forms or worship are not acceptable to God even though the worshippers say they are worshipping God: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leads to perdition, and many there are who enter through it. How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it! (Matthew 7:13-14) & But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one"s religion is vanity. (James 1:26)
- Some professed disciples of Christ do not worship God as God wants to be worshipped: Not all who say to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?" And then will I disclose to them: "I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity." (Matthew 7:21-23) & They claim that they know God. But, by their own works, they deny him, since they are abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate, toward every good work. (Titus 1:16) & But why do you call me, "Lord, Lord," and not do what I say? Anyone who comes to me, and listens to my words, and does them: I will reveal to you what he is like. He is like a man building a house, who has dug deep and has laid the foundation upon the rock. Then, when the floodwaters came, the river was rushing against that house, and it was not able to move it. For it was founded upon the rock. But whoever hears and does not do: he is like a man building his house upon the soil, without a foundation. The river rushed against it, and it soon fell down, and the ruin of that house was great." (Luke 6:46-49)
- These things characterise worship that God wants
- Worship is to be given to God alone: Then Jesus said to him: "Go away, Satan. For it has been written: "You shall adore the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve." " (Matthew 4:10) & You shall not adore and you shall not worship these things. For I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals, repaying the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation to those who hate me, and acting with mercy in thousands of ways to those who love me and keep my precepts. (Deuteronomy 5:9-10) & And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent. (John 17:3)
- Jesus Christ is central to faithful worship of God: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not have life, but will remain under God's punishment. (John 3:36) & Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us. (Acts 4:12) & My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere. This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God. But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already. (1 John 4:1-3)
- What God reveals is what defines what God wants of worshippers: And in response he said, "It has been written: "Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." " (Matthew 4:4)
- The holy scriptures are central to learning and understanding what God has revealed: And so, we have an even firmer prophetic word, to which you would do well to listen, as to a light shining within a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts. (2 Peter 1:19) & Yet truly, you should remain in those things which you have learned and which have been entrusted to you. For you know from whom you have learned them. And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:14-17)
