The simple truth is that there is a God who created you and loves you very much, and He gave us life and deserves our gratitude and love. We, however, have chosen to disobey Him, all of us have done wrong. We may not be more sinful than our neighbor, or we may be far worse than anyone we know, it does not matter. Either way, we are guilty before God. (1 John 1:8) God is perfect, completely good, always right and fair. He cannot tolerate sin. He cannot simply overlook the fact that we have chosen to disobey Him. The Bible says "the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23) This means that the fair payment for our rebellion against God is death. It is the punishment that we deserve. Jesus, the one and only Son of God, came to earth and lived a perfect sinless life. He was crucified even though He was completely innocent. He received the punishment that we deserved. He was the perfect sacrifice, He was put into our place and took on Himself the sentence of death that should have been ours.
The simple truth is that there is a God who created you and loves you very much, and He gave us life and deserves our gratitude and love. We, however, have chosen to disobey Him, all of us have done wrong. We may not be more sinful than our neigh...