Where atheism tells us that we are the measure of all things, the gospel tells us that God is the standard by which we are measured.
Where pantheism tells us that our problem is that we have forgotten that we are God, the gospel tells us that our problem is that we wanted to be God rather than commune with God.
Where Islam tells us that we can earn God’s forgiveness, the gospel tells us that such a view is self-contradictory and only Jesus’ payment for our sins solves the contradiction.
The fact that nearly every other worldview seeks to make humanity the achiever of salvation or utopia suggests that they are human-made worldviews.
But the gospel tells us that our self-aggrandizement is the very thing that gets us into trouble.
We need someone who is not us to save us from ourselves. Jesus is that someone. Jesus is the centerpiece—the way, the truth, and the life. He is all three and offers them to us so that we don’t need to forge them ourselves.
The Christian message is that there is an exclusive way to get to God. And that one way cost God more than it will ever cost us. But the invitation to accept it includes us all (John 3:16).
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
Saving Truth, Abdu Murray