LEGACY - The Writings of Scott McMahan

LEGACY is a collection of the best and most essential writings of Scott McMahan, who has been publishing his work on the Internet since the early 1990s. The selection of works for LEGACY was hand-picked by the author, and taken from the archive of writings at his web presence, the Cyber Reviews. All content on this web site is copyright 2005 by Scott McMahan and is published under the terms of the Design Science License.
CONTENTS

HOME

FICTION
Secrets: A Novel
P.O.A.
Life's Apprentices
Athena: A Vignette
POEMS
Inside My Mind
Unlit Ocean
Nightfall
Running
Sundown
Never To Know
I'm In An 80s Mood
Well-Worn Path
On First Looking
  Into Rouse's Homer
 Autumn, Time
  Of Reflections
Creativity
In The Palace Of Ice
Your Eyes Are
  Made Of Diamonds
You Confuse Me
The Finding Game
A War Goin’ On
Dumpster Diving
Sad Man's
  Song (of 1987)
Not Me
Cloudy Day
Churchyard
Life In The Country
Path
The Owl
Old Barn
Country Meal
Country Breakfast
A Child's Bath
City In A Jar
The Ride
Living In
  A Plastic Mailbox
Cardboard Angels
Streets Of Gold
The 1980s Are Over
Self Divorce
Gone
Conversation With
  A Capuchin Monk
Ecclesiastes
Walking Into
  The Desert
Break Of Dawn
The House Of Atreus
Lakeside Mary

CONTRAST POEMS:
1. Contrasting Styles
2. Contrasting
     Perspectives
3. The Contrast Game

THE ELONA POEMS:
1. Elona
2. Elona (Part Two)
3. The Exorcism
     (Ghosts Banished
     Forever)
4. Koren
     (Twenty
    Years Later)
About...
ESSAYS
Perfect Albums
On Stuffed Animals
My First Computer
Reflections on Dune
The Batting Lesson
The Pitfalls Of
  Prosperity Theology
Repudiating the
  Word-of-Faith Movement
King James Only Debate
Sermon Review (KJV-Only)
Just A Coincidence
Many Paths To God?
Looking At Karma
Looking At
  Salvation By Works
What Happens
  When I Die?
Relativism Refuted
Why I Am A Calvinist
Mere Calvinism
The Sin Nature
Kreeft's HEAVEN
A Letter To David
The Genesis
  Discography
ABOUT
About Scott
Resume
Many Paths To God?
 

How often I hear that the world's religions are all different paths to the same God, as if people start at a point along the rim of a wheel, and can choose any spoke to take them to the center.

In a sense, this saying is true: All human religion basically says the same thing. Each of us, through self-effort, can earn our right to be with God. Although the forms of expression are endless, all world religions can be distilled to this core concept. With one exception: the grace offered by Jesus Christ.

Instead of saying there are many paths to the same God, it would be more accurate to say there is a road going east and west, the two directions which never meet. In one direction is the route to God by which a person earns access to God through works, and in the other direction is the route to God. The two directions are mutually exclusive, and each person must choose one direction and stick to it.

All content on this web site is copyright 2005 by Scott McMahan and is published under the terms of the Design Science License.

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