This Mission Impossible to save humanity from the clutch of devil and bondage of sin has been accomplished by Jesus Christ. No one else can do that. To me, each religion represents human effort to interpret and speculate the mystery of God’s Great Rescue Plan for Humanity. Since the beginning, God has promised Adam and Eve a plan to save mankind from the clutch of sin and eternal damnation. Unfortunately, in the long course of time up till now, man with his scheming and speculating minds very often misreads God’s plan. Pitifully, man often plays God throughout history. The 6000-year-old Satan, who witnessed everything and understands God’s plan better than man, managed to confuse us with so many religions, beliefs and world temptations.

After all, who are we to try to guess and understand the unfathomable thought of God? For examples, initially all Israelites share a common belief in the coming of Messiah (the Saviour) who will bring salvation. When Jesus declared Himself as the Messiah, some believe and some don’t. Those who believe are the first Christians, whereas those who reject Jesus and still waiting for “another Messiah” until now are the fathers of Judaism. They could not accept that the promised Saviour was someone who was born in a dirty stable and eventually crucified at the cross. They thought (human’s thought) that the Messiah should be a powerful King in Israel who will reign the world. They became disappointed with God’s plan and diverted from the Way of Truth. Unfortunately, God’s divine Way is not human’s way and God’s thought is not like our limited thought. We cannot dictate the way God works using our own human understanding.

Whenever, a group of man interprets God’s plan differently from others, a new religion is born. Even in today’s modern world, new religions such as the New Age, Scientology, etc keep coming up and manage to attract myriads of followers. Therefore, we should not focus too much on religion. Do not put our faith in Religion. Put our faith in the living God. Like oil and water, God Almighty (Jesus alike) and religion have never mixed well. Religion is the practice of making simple things hard. A religion is also a man-made institution. It represents human endeavour to rescue himself from eternal punishment and earn him eternal life. It’s totally against God’s Rescue Plan. How can we, a sinful man, try to save ourselves from sin-inflicted punishment? How can we, a sinful man, reach the holy place using our own effort? I believe that the One from the holy place has to come down and rescue us. I believe that the One who has been wronged by our sins is the Only One who can forgive us of all our sins and save us from eternal punishments. Therefore, no religious acts, no rituals nor traditions, no holy man nor prophets, not even all our good deeds can save us. Only God alone can save us. After all, Jesus Christ came down to earth NOT with a mission to establish a new religion, rather to free us from the bondage of the religious Law.

Being a spiritual being, every human being must have at least 1 God in his life – something that he puts his hope in because that something, he believes, has power. It can be deities or even money, statues, rocks, or even the devil. Even those atheists who claim that they don’t believe in any God, they actually have one. Their god is their own selves, their understanding and their pride, refusing to succumb to the authority of their Creator. So which God do you believe in? It is all up to each individual to choose because we all have a God-given freewill. Choose wisely!

The questions about God’s existence often troubled me as a teenager. Why do I need a god in my life? I guess I am myself self-sufficient enough. Until one day, I heard the Greatest Love Story and I got to know Jesus Christ. He is God who so loved me that He died for me. God - GOD! – DIED for me! These 2 words were oxymoron to me at that time, GOD and DIED. Initially I could not understand. How could God, who is all-powerful and omnipotent, die? I never heard any other God or person willing to die out of His unconditional love for all sinful humankind, including you and me. Jesus, God Himself, died the most torturing and humiliating death for my sins! He died so that I don’t have to die. Then, I thought to myself, “If God is like that, then that God shall be my God!” That very moment, I surrender my life and faith to Jesus Christ, my saviour. 

I believe in Jesus Christ, and you can ask me why =)

Modern medical science has learned that to fight a disease, it is sometimes necessary to be “infected” with it. Through this ironic process, the treated are rendered immune to the effects of a given illness. Surprisingly, this process of “deliberate infection to bring about immunity” was described in prophetic details by a man, who lived a few thousand years Before Christ, who never heard the word vaccination:

“He (Jesus Christ) was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes that wounded Him, we are healed… The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” - Isaiah 53:5-6

Isaiah, the prophet, looked into the future and described the torture and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. His words provide a glimpse into the blueprint of the Creator’s great plan to rescue humanity. Being 100% man and 100% God, Jesus came to earth with the power to heal and forgive. Within this “second Adam”, the warring factions of spirit and flesh also existed. He was indeed tempted like we are, yet He was without sin. Hanging nailed at the cross, Jesus was also deliberately infected with all manner of sickness and sin, so to bring about salvation and healing through His divine, immunized blood. He became our substitute. He suffered the penalty for our sins and died in our place. By simply believing in Jesus as our saviour and the power of His blood, we can be cleansed from our sins and healed from our disease.

“He went once and for all into the Holy of Holies of Heaven, not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves to make reconciliation between God and man, but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption and an everlasting release for us.” Hebrews 9:12 

The sin infection Adam contracted by his selfish act under a tree was covered for all time by Christ’s selfless act on a tree. Satan was once again defeated and no barrier of separation, except for man’s own free will to choose, now stood between the Creator and His creation. Jesus has paid in full the sacrifice for our sin forgiveness, yet He cannot force us to believe in Him. Each of us has our own free will to idolize one God. The bible says that nobody can have 2 Masters. For at any one time, he will adore one and ignore the other.