There are many things that separate true Christianity from the other religions of this world, but the most important is that Christianity is not a “works” religion. All the other religions or systems of religion known to us through history or through anthropology have at their base some system of good works by which the follower of the religion earns merit. Christianity insists, on the contrary, that we cannot earn anything, that all that could possibly be done has already been done for us by the Lord Jesus Christ and that salvation is therefore entered, not by doing anything but by receiving God’s gift.
James Montgomery Boice, in “The Gospel of John: An expositional commentary”. |
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