Is salvation simple or complicated?

• Something is simple if it is easily understood; plain, basic; uncomplicated in form, nature, or design; straightforward.
• Something is complicated if it is intricate, complex, involved, convoluted; hard to understand or untangle; difficult to analyze.
• So is salvation simple or complicated?
• In an online article on the BBC(1), religion is explained “as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe … and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.”
• Reference dot com(3) estimates that there were 4,200 different religions in the world as of 2014. So if we accept those statistics, then there are at least 4,200 voices addressing the subject of salvation or religion. That seems very complicated to me.
• And we wouldn’t want to leave out our philosophers, some of whom, according to the American Philosophical Association(2) take on challenges such as reconciling “our apparently special epistemic relationship to our own beliefs with a broadly naturalistic epistemology” and dealing with “issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind regarding belief.”
• On top of all of that we have over 7 billion people on the planet who by default—according to Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25—view the world in the way that seems right to them. So we have the voices of thousands of religions and philosophies, and billions of opinions addressing the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe.
• This multitude of voices could be terribly overwhelming, enough so to even cause a person to wonder how he or she could know anything at all for sure. Who am I? Why am I here? How do I fit in the grand scheme of things? So very complicated.
• Unless … unless we listen to God, one voice, God’s voice.
• The complexity of life on the planet melts away when we listen to God in his holy word, the Bible. God identifies our problem. Yes, problem as in singular, as in one—our sin. Having accurately identified our problem, God provides the solution. Salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

REVELATION MESSAGE 13 – The Lion Is a Lamb
Revelation 5

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References: (1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/, (2) http://blog.apaonline.org/about-us/, (3) https://www.reference.com/world-view/many-religions-world-8f3af083e8592895