Easy to Choose the Correct Religion

Many people said that there are many religions in the world. It is so confusing and nobody knows which is real. Actually, things are not as difficult. When classified by method of salvation, there are only two religions in the world. One is of grace, the other of works. There is the third option of atheism, which believes that there is nothing after life. So this brings the decision down to deciding which method of salvation is real or there is nothing after life.

If you think there is nothing after life, well, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32)". If you think that salvation by grace is true, you only have one choice, the religion of the Bible. If you think that salvation by one's own effort and work (i.e. meritocracy) is true, you have a bewildering number of choices, such as the reincarnation religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, or the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The other polytheistic religions are mostly dead, killed by Christianity, Islam or Atheism.

So the confusion of choices will occur if you want to save yourself by your own effort. There are many methods, ranging from Theravada Buddhism, which require your 100% effort over many life times, to the other religions which require effort plus faith in varying degrees. Your effort includes the performance of different rituals, stipulated by the religions. If you think that salvation by works is true, I think you ought to put in a lot of effort to study these religions and decide which of these is true.

As for me, salvation is by the grace of God, who sent His Son Jesus to die for my sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:9) and God’s heaven be filled with boasters. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them (Ephesians 2:10) to the praise of the glory of His grace ((Ephesians 1:6).