Now when they heard about Jesus they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apos­tles, “What shall we do?”

(Quot­ed from Acts 2:37)

In the year A.D. 30 many Jews and God-fear­ing Gen­tiles who had gath­ered in Jerusalem for the Jew­ish feast of Pen­te­cost asked this ques­tion after hear­ing Peter speak to the crowds about Jesus.

We also asked our­selves this very same ques­tion, as does every­one who thinks more deeply about the sense of life, regard­less of whether they are an athe­ist, a Bud­dhist or a Catholic.

We have come from a wide range of back­grounds, reli­gious and non-reli­gious, but we have all come to realise that the many dif­fer­ent paths avail­able do not lead to one and the same des­ti­na­tion. There are so many ways out there to choose from. So the ques­tion becomes: What is the right way? What is truth?

When it comes down to it, it is not pos­si­ble for two oppos­ing and con­tra­dic­to­ry alter­na­tives to exist simultaneously—one for you and one for me.

Con­sid­er these exam­ples: Is there God? Is there life after death? If so, is it about a repet­i­tive cycle of rein­car­na­tion or is it about a one-time res­ur­rec­tion? Does man have free will regard­ing their des­tiny or are they pre­des­tined by God? Does eter­nal hell exist? And this list goes on and on…

Ques­tions like these ought to inspire every­one who wants to get to know God’s nature to form an opin­ion. Can we remain indif­fer­ent when faced with these ques­tions if we are inter­est­ed in find­ing out how to live accord­ing to God’s will?

To find answers to these ques­tions we do not need a new rev­e­la­tion, or some kind of new spe­cial method of inter­pret­ing the Bible. We rather believe that truth is acces­si­ble, because Jesus revealed it to mankind.

In our soci­ety, the view that the truth is rel­a­tive is the pre­dom­i­nat­ing ide­ol­o­gy. Peo­ple paint their own pic­ture of heav­en, choos­ing the colours from a palette of their own desires and wish­es, cre­at­ing their own reli­gion, which seems to fit well enough for the time being… In fact, reli­gion is wide­ly treat­ed as yet anoth­er branch of the arts, like the world of fash­ion in which peo­ple shape trends and trends, in turn, shape peo­ple. How­ev­er, God’s way is dif­fer­ent…