Thank you for explaining what you believe is the way to God, Mohammed. I looked at the website you sent me. There was a lot of information. I will now explain the way to God according to the Bible…….

God needs nothing, but He has created us to worship Him and enjoy Him forever. Our sin (zanb) makes us unclean and separates us from God and from heaven (janna). We have broken God's perfect law and therefore do not deserve to know God or enter His heaven. Our good deeds do not erase our bad deeds because it is our duty to do good deeds. God has not allowed good deeds to take us to heaven because we would then do good deeds with a selfish intention. The justice of God demands that we be punished in hell for eternity.

However, the mercy of God wants to save us. God proved His love for us by sending His Word (the Messiah), who lived without sin and died for us on the cross. Since God is 100% just and 100% merciful, He paid the price for our sin that we could never pay. Three days after the Messiah willingly died, God raised Him from the dead and later took him to heaven. We must receive God's gift of forgiveness by faith. Only He can take away our sin and shame.

After a person's sins are forgiven, then the Spirit of God will enter his body and begin to change him so that he will worship God with pure intentions. When a man sees this change (tawba) in his life, he will have confidence that the Spirit of God lives within him, that his sins have been forgiven by God, and that he will go to heaven when he dies or when the Messiah returns. He will know God! The Bible says that those who reject God’s gift of forgiveness through the death of the Messiah will go to hell forever.

Mohammed, have you heard this message before? What do you believe differently?