Mr. Huckabee, I applaud you! You have a much broader platform than I do - but you hold the same view, and I am thankful to God that He has someone in place to say to a larger audience just exactly what you said.
We do not have a gun problem in the USA - or indeed, in the world in general. Nor do we have a bad movie problem or a drug problem or mental sickness problem.
WE HAVE A SIN PROBLEM!
We live in a world where evil exists - and is allowed to run rampant all because we don't want to "offend" anyone. Better we "tolerate" and that includes tolerating tragedies such as the shootings in Aurora, Colorado at a movie theater of innocent people, rather than speak the TRUTH and offend those who choose to reject the TRUTH.
You can argue semantics all day, and argue theology and argue doctrine and argue all you want - and all of it WILL NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH!
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
He alone is the standard for TRUTH, for MORALS and RIGHTEOUSNESS. I don't care how much you choose not to believe it, it is still the truth! Many chose to believe that Jesus was not the Son of God - and yet, He ignored them and continued to heal people, deliver people and ultimately pay the penalty for the sin of the entire world. No amount of disbelief changes that truth.
If you want to know the TRUTH, you have to get to know HIM, for He is the TRUTH.
Someone began to argue with me the other day, that Jesus cannot possibly be the ONLY way to heaven, because of
their reasoning and
their logic. I never argue TRUTH - it stands up for itself and needs no help from me!
Here's what I told them, and I tell you now, in LOVE and in the HOPE that you will open your heart to it, and by doing so, receive the FREE GIFT of salvation through Jesus:
Many claim many things, but ONLY Jesus claimed He IS THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN FOR ALL ETERNITY. It makes sense to take Him at His word for you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
You can like the teaching of Buddha, you can believe the way of Confucious, you can follow the doctrines of whatever church or organization catches your fancy -
BUT YOU CAN ONLY GET INTO HEAVEN THROUGH JESUS.
The unbelief of MANY did not stop Jesus from coming the first time, and it certainly won't stop Him a second time. We are all eternal creatures, created by an Eternal God. The question is not
"if we have eternal life". The question is:
WHERE WILL WE SPEND ETERNITY?
In the loving presence of the God who created us, or in darkness and misery with an entity who HATES US?!?!!?
Truth can be a very sobering thing.
