Cheese

Sin is something that a lot of non Christians don't really understand. Everyone understands right and wrong. There's a kind of inbuilt sense of right and wrong that guides us all to evaluate our actions on the basis of the effects on other's. Even the most hardened criminal that is stuck in their evil ways knows the difference between right and wrong. Essentially, they just ignore the inner voice that tells them that what they are doing is somehow, somewhere just plain wrong.

But maybe not sin. On the other hand we all get a warm fuzzy glow when we do something that is right and good. Like helping an elderly person find their way home or a small child cross a road.

 

So, despite us all having a conscience while living in a world of science and rational thought. A world of spin and different philosophies and perspectives. Different lenses on life in general like humanism, atheism, fascism and communism. Christianity is increasingly pushed to the side, alienated and marginalized. 

 

That is, as a way of viewing good and bad behaviors. Labelled as hate speech even. The problem with this is that only believing in what you can see and empirically prove is all very well. However, if we honestly appraise the world around us we can see that all of creation has a God shaped key. The idea that life evolved by itself doesn't explain the fact that knowledge must be attained and applied. It doesn't just manifest itself as the theory of evolution maintains. It doesn't even make sense to say that it does. So much for rational thinking then.

No, if we're honest we know that what the apostle Paul said in Romans chapter one verses 19 - 20 "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world.." Is actually indisputable. What God has done is in the open and all around us. We all know at a deeper level that God exists.

Now, those who follow God will tell you that God is one and we are to love him with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and all of our strength. In doing that we can know through His word that sin is the greatest issue of division between God and man. Since the fall of man with Adam and Eve. Sin has separated us from God and if we don't do something about it that separation will become eternal. 

This is where cheese comes into the mix. You can't run a car on cheese that is made to run on petrol, diesel or electricity. Cheese is not a fuel for any of those types of vehicle. It fuels people but not engines. We know this right? No on tries to run their car on cheese when it runs low on fuel.
 

The same is the case with Salvation. You can't be saved by cheese, inner peace, self fulfillment, obedience to the wrong Gods or anything other than believing on the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. You see God so loved you that he gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to become a man, live a sinless life and to die on the Cross as a sacrifice for the sins of those who believe on Him. So we are cleansed through the blood of the Savior. Once again Cheese or anything other than belief on Jesus Christ won't win your Salvation.