Christianity is not a religion.
To be right with God, religious people pray, read their scriptures, go to their place of worship and be generally good.
Many religious people are very 'moral' people and obey rules from their scriptures and even many detailed man-made rules and laws.
The bible says, to be right with God, we must be even better than these meticulously religious people. But how can we possibly do that? There is no way we can be perfect enough for God. What do we do then, if we cannot be good enough to be right with God?!
The men with leprosy, in this account, cried out to Jesus for pity and help. Jesus told them to go show themselves to the preist so that they could be proclaimed clean and return to regular society. They did and were healed. Jesus said, despite only one returning to give thanks to Him, their faith had healed them.
This shows us that, as imperfect as we are, we can come to Jesus in faith and be healed. We can be made right just by trusting Jesus to forgive us and present us to God as right.
Richard spoke Christianity is not a religion HOW TO BE RIGHT people pray they read the bible they come to church religious people are good people Luke 17 GOD HAS GIVEN US HIS RULES eg ten commandments Matthew 5 what is righteousness means without sin mark nine we cant get to heaven by doing what we do we go to hell the story of the ten lepers if you had leprosy you were rejects you had a incurable illness the lepers asked Jesus to have pity on them and they were healed but only one of the ten lepers came back to say thanks Christians do this because they want to be right with God.
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