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The Bible teaches a soteriology -- a means of uniting with God. God tells us that we can unite with him by being pardoned of divine destructive punishment ("justified"), as we believe ("faith") that Christ was punished in our place on the cross ("atonement"). This is the Biblical Christian soteriology: "justification by faith." Other religions have different soteriologies:
Platonism. For example, in Platonism, it is taught that God punishes humans only to correct them and not to destroy them -- kind of like a gardener pruning a tree, or a surgeon cauterizing a patient, or a sculptor chiseling a stone. Thus, Plato taught that we unite with God by yielding ourselves to the operation of his ongoing wrath and cooperating synergistically to be transfigured by it. This soteriology is made clear in Socrates's dialogue with Polus in Plato's book, "Gorgias."
Islam. In Islam, it is taught that a person can escape Allah's non-corrective punishments ("justification") by believing in Allah and Muhammed's Quranic prophecy ("faith") and by not failing to live according to the Five Pillars.
Many Non-Christians resist converting to Christianity because they believe that God taught them the soteriology they believe. For example, both Plato and Muhammed believed that God was teaching them their soteriologies. But even if it is true that God taught one of the non-Christian soteriologies, this is still not a good excuse for resisting converting to Christianity. Why not? Because Yahweh tells us that he would lie to humans in order to deceive them into believing a non-Christian soteriology. Having believed the false soteriology he taught them, he would condemn them for their violation of his law:
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (New International Version)
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.


Thus the fact that you believe God taught you your religion is not grounds for following it rather than converting to Christianity. For, even if you are correct that God taught your religion to you, it is nevertheless false. Only by the Christian soteriology can you unite with God.

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