We go through the Bible, verse by verse, chapter by chapter.

So we are just starting, last Wednesday,

we got through first seven verses of the book of Romans.

So why don't you turn with me to Romans chapter one

for today's study?

Every religion has its similarities and its differences.

But one of the similarities you see among most religions

is they have some kind of a holy habitation,

a spiritual location,

somewhere where you ultimately want to go or be.

You know, for Christians we say, we're going to go to heaven. Others say, well, no, it's more of a

state of bliss or the state of the snuffed out candle. Or maybe it's finding your third eye of

understanding. Or maybe it's nirvana or Shangri-La, whatever your place or your third

level of heaven, or your seventh level of heaven. Like, everybody's got their view and their

version of where you're going to go. But where it gets really weird is we live in a culture of

people that don't know religions very well. And they love to act like they're smart. They say,

all religions really lead to the same path. You want to know who believes that? People that don't

know anything about religion. Because if you ask the religions, they don't agree with that.

Wolf Blitzer on CNN will say, all paths lead to the same place. Your pipe puppy college professors will sometimes

even say that, even though they might be atheists. They'll say, well, you know, all religions really

lead to the same place. Well, that's because they don't believe in any of them. Where do you find out

what a religion believes? Well, you go to their fundamentalists, their beginning authors, whoever started

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