There is only one way to eternal life and not plural ways as many people claim. How you can find this way is described in this article. Let’s look at what the Bible says about salvation and the way to eternal life.
Is every person born as a sinner?
Yebo, every person is born as a sinner on earth. Every person is born in the flesh in a fallen state with a sinful flesh and carries sin and death. This sinful nature separates people from God and rebels against God and disobeys His Word.
Every person lives from a fallen state and is ruled by the flesh (izinzwa, ingqondo yenyama, imicabango, imizwa, imizwelo, njll.). The person is a sinner and walks in sin. A sinner walks in rebellion towards God and disobey His words and do those things that oppose the will of God.
Isoni siphila ebumnyameni ngaphansi kwamandla kasathane, Isono nokufa. Isoni sithwala ukufa ngoba umoya wesoni ungukufa.
Inqobo nje uma umoya osemuntwini uhlala ufile, death rules the life of the person and the person shall bear the fruit of death, okuyisono, and when the person dies, umuntu uya esihogweni (umbuso wokufa).
Indawo yokugcina yendalo endala (everyone that is born of Adam’s seed; inzalo yomuntu) ingukufa okuphakade, ngaphandle uma…
Iyiphi indlela kuphela eya ekuphileni okuphakade?
There is only one way to eternal life and escape God’s judgment and the punishment for sin, okungukufa okuphakade, and that Way is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Way to eternal life.
By faith in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work, through His blood and regeneration in Him, people can be saved.
Ngoba uNkulunkulu wathanda izwe, ukuthi wanikela ngeNdodana yakhe ezelwe yodwa, ukuze wonke okholwa kuye angabhubhi, Kepha ube nokuphila okuphakade (UJohane 3:16)
Lapho umuntu ephendula, and the flesh dies and the spirit of the person raises from the dead, ngamandla kaMoya oNgcwele, the person is born again; born of God (Oh. UJohane 3:3-7; IzEnzo 2:38; 1 UJohane 1:3; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1-18; 1 UPetru 1:23).
Umuntu usephenduke isidalwa esisha kuKristu; indodana kaNkulunkulu (lokhu kusebenza kokubili abesilisa nabesifazane).
Akekho noyedwa, who can come to God the Father then through Jesus Christ, the Son and His blood.
No one can be saved and be reconciled with God the Father through their own works.
No one can be saved by going to church every week or by becoming a church member, Kufundwa IBhayibheli, ukuthandaza, doing charity works, kulandela isethi yemithetho, religious rituals, carnal methods or other works of the flesh.
That’s because the carnal works of man can’t change anything about the sinful flesh and the fallen state and evil nature of fallen man and the broken spiritual connection with God.
That’s why Jesus Christ the Son of God had to come to earth and die. Jesus came to deal once and for all with this sin problem and heal what was broken.
The evil of man (isono nobubi bomuntu owileyo) wabulala uJesu Kristu. Uma ucabanga lokho futhi uzindle ngakho, you won’t be so hasty anymore to keep sinning.
How Jesus dealt with the sin problem
Jesus obeyed His Father and did His will and was crucified and died on the cross. Wathatha bonke ububi; all the sins and iniquities of the fallen human race (Umhlaba), phezu kwaKhe. Jesus carried all the sins and iniquities that reigns in the old creation and the punishment of death. Ngempilo Yakhe, work and blood, Jesus conquered the devil, isono, nokufa.
Ngenxa yomsebenzi Wakhe wokuhlenga, Jesus dealt once and for all with the sin problem. UJesu wabhekana nemvelo yesono, that’s present in every human being that is born on earth, and created in Him a new man. (Oh. 2 AbaseKorinte 5:17; Kwabase-Efesu 2:16-22, AbaseKolose 3).
When you believe in Jesus Christ and repent and be born again in Him, you’re redeemed by the blood of Jesus from sin and death. You are redeemed from eternal death and the kingdom of death.
The devil is no longer your master and you don’t belong to the kingdom of darkness. But through Jesus Christ and by His blood and regeneration in Him, you are delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son, Who is your new Master.
Owasikhulula emandleni obumnyama, futhi usihumushele embusweni weNdodana yakhe ethandekayo: Esinokuhlengwa kuye ngegazi laKhe, ngisho nokuthethelelwa kwezono
AbaseKolose 1:13
Ungummeleli woMbuso kaNkulunkulu
Now that you are delived from the power of the devil, isono, nokufa, and are no longer the old creation but have become a new creation in Christ, you shall no longer walk after the flesh in the vanity of your carnal mind in disobedience to God (Esonweni). Kunalokho, you shall walk after the Spirit in the spirit of your mind in obedience to God.
Njengendalo entsha, niyakufuna okwaphezulu, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Uzokwenza vuselela ingqondo yakho ngeZwi likaNkulunkulu (Ibhayibheli). Ngoba ngeZwi, uzokwazi, UJesu Kristu, uBaba, kanye loMbuso kaNkulunkulu.
UMoya oNgcwele uyakuba nguMfundisi wakho, Umhlahlandlela wakho, kanye noMsizi.
You shall no longer be a representative of the devil and the kingdom of darkness. You shall not be a slave of sin and death anymore.
Kodwa manje uzohamba njengommeleli woMbuso kaNkulunkulu.
Niyakuhamba ekulungeni nasebungcweleni, njengendodana kaNkulunkulu oPhezukonke.
The blood of Jesus delivered you from sin and death. Your old life as a sinner is erased by the blood of Jesus. Ayisekho kuNkulunkulu. In Christ Jesus, you have received a new life.
Nawe, nifile ezonweni zenu nasekungasokini kwenyama yenu, Uphile kanye Naye, selithethelele zonke iziphambeko; Wesula umbhalo wesandla wemithetho owawumelene nathi, okwakuphambene nathi, wayisusa endleleni, ewubethela esiphambanweni saKhe
AbaseKolose 2:13-14
Uthando nomusa kaNkulunkulu kwenza indlela eya ekuphileni okuphakade
God’s great love and mercy for people, became visible through the perfect redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross. His work ensured that every person has the ability to be reconciled with God the Father.
Abantu abakholwa kuJesu Kristu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu, and accept Jesus as their Saviour and Lord, are redeemed from sin and death (isijeziso sokufa ngenxa yesono).
The people that are born again in the spirit, have become a new creation. They have the Word of life and the life of God abiding in them. People that are born of God and have the life of God, uyakwamukela ukuphila okuphakade.
This is the only way to eternal life. Naphezu kwalokho abantu abangase bakusho, there’s no other way to eternal life then through Jesus Christ and by His sacrifice and blood.
There are no other entries and sideways to come to God the Father and be reconciled with Him. Munye kuphela umnyango kanye neNdlela eyodwa eya ekuphileni okuphakade, Futhi lokho ngoJesu Kristu (Oh. UJohane 10:7-9; 14:6-7)
Amanga kasathane mayelana nendlela eya ekuphileni okuphakade
Umhlaba ungase uthuthukise zonke izinhlobo zefilosofi nemibono ethembisayo mayelana nendlela eya ekuphileni okuphakade. Kodwa bathuthukiswa emqondweni wabo wenyama; Ukuhlakanipha komuntu nolwazi (which is devilish), imizwa nemizwelo.
Izwe lingasho konke elikufunayo. The people that belong to the world can say, ukuthi akunandaba, lokho okukholwayo, inqobo nje uma wenza okuhle futhi wenza okulungile (according to the moral standards of the world) futhi ube muhle kubafowenu, bahloniphe futhi babekezelele zonke izinhlobo zokuziphatha, isiko, inkolo, ifilosofi, njll. khona uyakusindiswa.
They can even say, “akunandaba ukuthi ukholelwani noma ukuyiphi inkolo, ekugcineni, sonke sikholwa kuNkulunkulu oyedwa“.
Kodwa zonke lezi amanga kasathane ngoba kunendaba!
Ngeshwa, abantu abaningi bayawakholelwa la manga, kuhlanganise namaKristu amaningi.
Labo, abangakazalwa ngokusha futhi abahambi ngokukaMoya, uzokholwa futhi asekele lamanga.
LamaKrestu wenyama akholelwa ukuthi ziningi izindlela zokuya kuNkulunkulu nokuphila okuphakade, ngoba uNkulunkulu uluthando.
Kodwa iqiniso liwukuthi, ukuthi azikho ezinye izindlela. IBhayibheli lisho njalo. IZwi likaNkulunkulu lithembekile futhi linokwethenjelwa. Ngobani? Ngoba wonke amazwi akhulunyiwe; sonke isiprofetho iZwi elisinikezile, kwenzekile futhi kusasenzeka.
Can God have communion with sinners?
Iqiniso, ukuthi uNkulunkulu angeke abe nenhlanganyelo nezoni; ngemvelo yesono yomuntu omdala.
UNkulunkulu angaba nenhlanganyelo kuphela nobudlelwane nesidalwa esisha; labo abangcweliswe ngegazi likaJesu Kristu futhi babeka phansi inyama yabo, lomoya wabo uvusiwe kwabafileyo, ngamandla kaMoya oNgcwele.
Wonke umuntu, ongakholwa kuJesu; iNdodana kaNkulunkulu, njengoMhlengi; uMesiya, futhi akenzi uJesu abe yiNkosi phezu kwempilo yakhe, futhi akenzi lokho uJesu ayala abalandeli Bakhe ukuba bakwenze, izolahleka ingunaphakade.
UJesu yedwa unguSango. He is the Truth and the Way to the Father and Jesus alone is the way to eternal life.
uJesu wathi kuye, Mina ngiyindlela, iqiniso, kanye nempilo: akakho oza kuBaba, kodwa ngaMi. Ukube beningazi Mina, benifanele ukumazi noBaba waMi: kusukela manje niyamazi, futhi ngiMbonile
UJohane 14:6-7
‘Yibani usawoti womhlaba’
