Your Religion Really Matters

‘ALL RELIGIONS are good,’ many people said. They are simply different roads leading to the same place.’ If this were true, your religion
would not really matter, for it would mean that all religions are acceptable to God. But are they?

When Jesus Christ walked on Earth, there was a religious group known as the Pharisees. They had to build up a system of worship and
believed it had God’s approval. Yet, at the same time, Pharisees were trying to kill Jesus! So Jesus told them: “You do the works of your father.”
In answer they said. “We have one father, God.” ―John 8:41.

Was God really their father? Did God accept their form of religion? Not at all! Even though the Pharisees had the scriptures and thought
they were following him, they had been misleading by the Devil. And Jesus told them so, saying: “You are from your father the Devil, and you
wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, . . . he is a liar and the
father of the lie.”― John 8:44.

Clearly, the religion of the Pharisees was false; it served the interests of the Devil, not God. So rather than viewing their religion as good,
Jesus condemned it. He said to those religious Pharisees: “You shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for you yourselves do not go in.
“They publicly they know God, but they disown him by their works.”