The Road Less Traveled

"For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."--Matthew 7:13-14

Why is it that with all the available ironclad evidence, fewer people today believe that Jesus Christ is the one and only way to eternal life? (John 14:6)

Why is it that Islam is the world's fastest growing religion, despite the fact that it presents no clear, coherent path to eternal life that can provide anyone the absolute assurance of salvation?

And why is it that godless humanism and its corollary evolution continue to spread like a deadly malignant cancer throughout the western world despite the fact that evolution has long been debunked as an unscientific fraud?

Why? Because few people today believe in absolute truth. The apostle Paul revealed that in the last days, people would be "always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth." (2 Timothy 3:7)

That's because, according to Paul, many people will eagerly embrace things that aren't true, thereby casting doubt on the things that are true. Paul wrote this: "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

Here's the absolute truth that can't be refuted: Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into this world in the form of a humble man to die for our sins on a Roman cross. That event isn't some myth or fable--it's an historical fact.

And what establishes the absolute truth of Christ's propitiatory sacrifice on the cross is the factual evidence provided by Israel's ancient prophets that foretold of Christ and His ministry hundreds and thousands of years before he appeared in the world.

The prophet Isaiah prophesied of Christ's virgin birth in the eighth century B.C. (Isaiah 7:14) He also revealed that the Jewish messiah would be God incarnate, (Isaiah 9:6) and he prophesied Christ's life, ministry, death and resurrection. (Isaiah 53)

The prophet Micah prophesied Christ's birthplace of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) in the sixth century B.C. and the prophet Zechariah revealed in the sixth century B.C. that the Jewish messiah would be recognized by the Jews upon His return by the by the nail scars on His hands from His crucifixion. (Zechariah 13:6)

This is why Christ told the absolute truth concerning the narrow path to eternal life when He said this: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Heavenly Father except through me." (John 14:6) 

Do you believe otherwise? Then you're following a lie. And unless you examine the evidence for Christ and embrace it while you're still living on this planet, that lie will haunt you for eternity.