A gentle slope

A gentle slope
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
                                                                                     C. S. Lewis.
I strongly believe many people in out society are on the road to hell. That’s one of the reasons I write these blogs.
Our society here in North America is full of diversions. Things that misdirect us. We are challenged to go for the “American or Canadian Dream” a good life of prosperity, and health. Something that in itself is good.
We are told by advertisers that we need this gadget or that gadget. We need the nice home with all the amenities. Again in proper prospective there is nothing wrong with having the latest gadgets, toys and luxury items.
However we are even led to believe by popular culture, that there are many ways to heaven. Some would even have you believe there is not a heaven or hell at all.
I as a Christian cannot force nor would I ever try to force what I believe on anyone. They have a free will to choose what they wish.
I would however state that I believe there is a Heaven we need to reach for and a Hell to shun.
I believe that getting to heaven cost us nothing. It is strictly an act of faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus said,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 
                                                                                                                                              John 14:6.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.
                                                                                                John 3:16-18.
The apostle Paul notes,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—  not by works, so that no one can boast.” 
                                                                         Ephesians 2:8,9 
The writer of Hebrew stating,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” 
                                                                                                                              Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
                                                                                                     Hebrews 11:6
Christians believe that God fully understood that we could not live a life good enough for Him so God reached down to man in the form of Jesus Christ. The apostle John noting,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.....  
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” 
                   John 1:1-4, 10-13.
If I am right and I strongly believe that I am a lot of people today in our society have a lot to fear.
C. S. Lewis said,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
                                                            C. S. Lewis.
Please think about it.