(36) Religion and Teachings.

The Christian religion is a way of returning to God,
and the teachings of Jesus your steps along the way.

References:

  • Jesus said to him, «I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

  • and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, «Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?» He said to him, «You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.» (Matt 22:35-40)

  • There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved. (Acts 4, 12)

  • Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. (Matt 7:13-14)

  • For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 6:23)

  • For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths. (2 Tim 4:3-4)

  • But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God. (John 1:12-13)

  • For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, (1 John 5:3)

  • Jesus answered them and said, «My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me. Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own. Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him. (John 7:16-18)

  • And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world. (John 12:47)