Does it matter which God people believe in?

How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, there is no other God.

2 Samuel 7.22 

 

At the time the Bible was written, people worship many different gods. Yet those who wrote the there is only one God worth believing in. In Exodus 34.14 we read, “You must worship no other gods, but only the LORD, for he is a God who is passionate about his relationship with you.” And Acts 4.12 makes it very clear why believing in the God of the Bible matters so much, “Jesus is the only one who can save people. His name is the only power in the world that has been given to save people. We must be saved through him.”

If we really want to know God, we need to know the one true God, and his real plan to make us his friends.

 

 

Do you know anyone who follows a different faith, or who doesn’t seem to believe in God at all. Or people who ‘believe’ in God but don’t follow him, or commit themselves to ideas or faiths but don’t believe Jesus is God’s Son. Our goal is not to put down these people, or stop being friends with them. Our job is to talk to them about Jesus’s love for them. We want them to know Jesus can save all of us from sin. That he gives us joy and peace now. And his death on the cross makes it possible for us to live with God forever someday if we trust him.