All world religions claim their god is the only god. All religions are mutually exclusive which means only one religion and one god can be true and all the rest must be false or none are true. How can we know which religion and which god is the right one or even if there is a god? The theory of evolution is one of Satan’s biggest lies. For the sake of argument let’s assume we didn’t evolve by chance from the primordial ooze into human beings but we were made by God and placed on the earth and in the universe God created. Would such a God want to reveal himself to his creation in a way that would be irrefutable? Would such a God have a good reason for creating man and the universe? Would such a God reveal that reason to us and also provide us with instructions as to what we’re to do? The answer is yes. If the answer is yes, then which god has done this? Otherwise, what’s the point of creation in the first place? We need to compare all the religions of the world side by side to see which one provides answers to the above questions, if any of them do. If any religion does provide satisfactory answers to the questions I’ve just raised then that religion is the true religion and their god is the one true God. Only with Christianity do we find sensible answers to all the questions we have about who God is and why he put us here. Jehovah is God; the only God; and all other religions and their gods are false.
Psalm 19:1 – The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.
Isaiah 45:5 – I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me.
All religions have their holy writings which we can compare to see what is true and what is false. The gold standard to prove which god is true is whether or not they can predict future events. If any god’s prophecies come true then they are the genuine article. They are the true God and all the rest are impostors. Let’s look at the evidence to see which god can tell the future. The Christian God Jehovah has given us his Word, our Holy Bible. The Bible contains over 1000 prophecies, over 500 of which have already been fulfilled and documented as fact. Therefore we can have confidence that the other 500 prophecies will also be fulfilled at a later date. No Bible prophecy has failed to be fulfilled in its allotted time frame so the Bible has a 100% accuracy rate thus far. Prophecy is nothing more than history written in advance. Only God is the author of history and if the god of any religion puts forth prophecy which comes true it’s proof he is God. Let’s contrast the fulfilled prophecies in God’s Word (over 500) with all other religions. All the other world religions combined have no fulfilled prophecies, which simply proves beyond any doubt that they are all fake religions. All the false gods of all the fake religions stand lifeless and mute before the awesome power of our God. Jehovah is God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 46:9 – Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
Isaiah 44:24 – Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.
The Bible is one third prophecy and God did this for two reasons. First, God gave us prophecy to prove he is God. Anyone can make broad general prophecies that people can twist to fit any time and place in history. Nostradamus is a good example. But only God can give us very specific prophecies from the Bible which, when fulfilled, validate the identity of the true God. Let me give you a few quick examples. God foretold that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. Israel had two towns named Bethlehem so God specifically indicated Jesus would be born in the smaller of the two towns, called Bethlehem Ephrathah, which only had about 200 families living there when Jesus was born in the town just as God said he would be. God also foretold the name of the man (Cyrus) that he would use to free the Israelites from their seventy years of Babylonian captivity. History confirms that King Cyrus did free the Israelites as foretold by God. God said the nation of Israel would be reborn in a single day and this occurred on May 14, 1947, when Israel declared itself a new nation from Jerusalem, the traditional capital of the Jewish people. Such a thing had never happened before in the annals of human history and never will again. God’s Word contains more than sixty prophecies concerning the coming of Christ, the Messiah. The life and ministry of Jesus Christ fulfilled every one of those sixty prophecies.
Micah 5:2 – But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from old, from everlasting.
Isaiah 45:22 – Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 44:28 – (God) – Who says of Cyrus, he is my shepherd, and he shall perform all My pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” and to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid!”
2 Peter 1:21 – For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
Second, God wants to communicate with us. God wants to share with us his salvation plan for man. God wants us to know him personally. God wants us to know what’s coming in the future so we can be prepared and take appropriate action. God wants us to know we are his beloved children and that he created us for fellowship with him in heaven forever. The Bible is God’s love letter to us and also our owner’s manual for how we’re to live our lives here on earth in order to please the God who made us. The Bible answers all the questions we started out with and much more because the Bible is the wisdom of God. For those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior the Bible is God’s truth.
Hosea 13:4 – Yet I am the LORD your God …. there is no Savior besides Me.
Isaiah 43:11 – I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.
All the other world religions have uninspired holy writings that are ambiguous and filled with contradictions and errors. Only the Holy Bible has proven to be without error even after 2000 years of critics trying to discredit it. All 66 books of the Bible, written by 40 different writers, mesh together seamlessly with a consistent message of God’s love for man and without contradicting or walking over each other. The Bible tells the story of God’s love for man by the sending of his Son Jesus to die on the cross to redeem us from our sins so we can have eternal life in heaven. All other religions have gods that are aloof and impersonal. Only the Christian God Jehovah says, “come let us reason together.” Over the last 2000 years Christianity has dramatically changed the lives of millions of believers for the better and I can add my testimony to theirs. No other religion in the world can make this claim. These other false religions have gods that are fake so, of course, they can’t let their followers to get close to their god or they would learn the terrible truth that they’re following a false god. To prevent this, fake religions make their gods mysterious and unapproachable and they punish anyone who dares ask probing questions about god and their faith.
Isaiah 1:18 – Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 42:8 – I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another.
Satan is the god of this world and he has blinded nonbelievers to the truth of God’s Word. The Holy Bible is foolishness to the nonbeliever but for those who believe the gospel of Christ is the light of God that illuminates the truth and leads to salvation unto eternal life. All the false religions of the world are sponsored by Satan to lead man away from the truth of God and Satan is doing a good job of it because the vast majority of the human race has spiritual blinders on and they won’t find the narrow path that leads to eternal life in heaven. All Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and the followers of all the other satanic cults have been blinded by Satan and they’ll all wind up in hell for eternity if they don’t believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. There’s no way to sugar-coat it. There’s no such thing as multiple paths to heaven. Jesus is the only way to heaven. No rational person can evaluate the evidence I’ve just presented without concluding Jehovah is God and the Bible is God’s Word.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 – Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
2 Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
The rapture is the next prophetic event on the Christian calendar, the one all believers have been waiting for. The word rapture doesn’t appear in the Bible but as the Latin verb which means, “to transport from one place to another,” it perfectly describes what will take place. Jesus will descend from heaven and appear in the clouds above the earth and call all believers to himself, both dead and alive. All believers will instantly vanish from the earth and appear before Jesus in the air in their resurrection bodies. Jesus will escort the saints back to heaven where we’ll be in his presence forevermore. I love prophecy, it’s what first drew me to the Bible and confirmed my belief in God. I’m a student of prophecy and it never ceases to thrill me as I study it. The rapture is the prophecy I love the most. How I long for that day!
1 Thessalonians 4:14-15 – For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Daniel 12:2-3 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
God’s first commandment is, “You shall have no other gods before me.” Our God is a jealous God and he will not allow another to steal his glory. In Isaiah 41: 21-24, God issues a lengthy challenge to any false gods to match what he has done; to prove themselves to be gods. God closes these passages by declaring anyone who chooses to follow after fake religions and worship false gods is an abomination to God. When God refers to something as an abomination he really hates it. Anyone God hates will feel the terrible wrath of God on the last Day by being thrown into the lake of fire for eternity. This is a reminder to all nonbelievers to examine the Christian faith while there is still time to do so. Everyone must accept God’s saving grace through the gospel of Christ or face eternal punishment in the lake of fire. All I can do is witness the truth of God to all who will listen and pray that their hearts will be ready to receive the gospel message of Christ and accept God’s salvation.
Isaiah 41:21-22 – Present your case, says the Lord. Bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.
Isaiah 41:23-24 – Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together. Indeed you are nothing, and your work is nothing; he who chooses you is an abomination.