ONLY ONE WAY–Don’t Believe the LIE About Multiple Paths to Salvation

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Point Two: Beware of Satan’s Lie that “All
Religious roads lead to Heaven”

Ten years ago there was a book that swept the country. The author, Betty Eadie, told a story that gripped millions. It was her account “as a follower of Jesus Christ” she called herself, of her near-death event. The book chronicles her out-of-body experience in 1973. The book is still selling well, called:

Embraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie (Oct 29, 2002)

A close examination of the book reveals that though she claimed to be a follower of Jesus Christ she was actually, by her own writings, a follower of Mormon doctrine, with heavy New Age leanings.

Woven into her tale of angels, robed spirit-guide monks, and the light that warmed her soul as she met Jesus Christ, are the following doctrines she described in detail:

1. Humans pre-existed as spirits before they were born into this world. This pre-existence of human spirits is central to Mormon doctrine. Betty said, “All people as spirits in the pre-mortal world, took part in the creation of the earth.”

Of course, that is completely contrary to God who said that the first human, Adam, became a living soul as God breathed life into him in Genesis 2:7. There is no pre-existence of human spirits allowed in the doctrines of God’s Word.

2. There are multiple gods in Heaven. This denial of the Trinity is also central to Mormonism, as well as the rest of the false religions of the world.

Of course this is completely contrary to God’s Word that states in John 10:30 “I and My Father are one”. Jesus is God the Son and He is one with God the Father. (See also Deut. 6:4; I Cor. 8:6; I Tim. 2:5).

3. Humans can become gods. This Mormon doctrine of the deification of the human soul, was also restated by Betty with these words: “God wants us to become as He is, and that He has invested us with god-like qualities.”

That is exactly contrary to the Lord who says that only He is God in Isaiah 42:8 “I am the Lord, My glory I will not give another.” We are to become more and more Christlike, and when we see Him, we will be like Him, but never with the qualities and attributes of God.

4. There is a second chance at salvation in the afterlife. The New Age and most false religions all share some form of Universalism, that people will get another chance and then become “embraced by the Light” as Betty describes salvation.

This is of course contrary to God who said in Hebrews 9:27, “It is appointed unto man to die once, after this the judgment.”

5. The universe has two eternal forces or energies: positive and negative. This dualism is part of Gnosticism, Hinduism, and most science fiction stories.

Today’s New Agers, false religions like Hinduism, and Satan’s lies usually all have three strands that are woven throughout their teachings:

• Pantheism (the belief in the divinity of both the creation and the Creator vs. the One Living and True God separate from His creation as seen in God’s Word);
• Mysticism (the belief that truth is something that one finds within themselves vs. from God’s Word);
• Syncretism (the belief that religion is blending and merging religious ideas from various sources vs. one source God’s Word)

Point number two that we each need to settle in our minds, and hold tightly to in the days ahead is this: Beware of Satan’s Lie that “All Religious roads lead to Heaven”