In The Beginning ... GOD ...

In the beginning  GOD  created the heavens and the earth....  it all belongs to Him.  "HE is the one NECESSARY BEING,"  to quote Fr. Angelus Shaughnessy,  "and we are the contingent beings." 

God spoke to Moses in those terms.  Moses said,  "Who shall I say it is who sent me?"  God said for Moses to tell Pharoah,  that it is "I AM" who sent you.  "I AM." 
He identified Himself as "I AM WHO AM."  In other words, "I Am Who I Am" or perhaps we could say,  "I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE."  He is the heigth of REALITY.   God is WHO HE IS and no less.  It isn't up for debate.  He isn't open to negotiations as to His Being.  And yet the world has come to a time when people want to live in the "Tyranny of Relativism"  even to the point of defining God. 

Today's world is so full of RELIGIONS and so devoid of LEGITIMATE  FAITH.  Let's go back to the beginning and see that this ONE, TRUE, HOLY, ALMIGHTY GOD WHO IS is a COVENANT-making God.  HE created;  HE initiated HIS COVENANT with man and not the other way around.  The ALMIGHTY  reached out and created,  and made Himself known,  and initiated covenants with men - with Adam, with Noah, Abraham, the Children of Israel through His Mediator, Moses,  through King David and lastly The New Covenant whose Mediator is Jesus Christ.  His was and is the perogative, the exclusive right and power to confirm to his creation  how this creation operates ideally.  As God reached out to man and grew His Chosen People to become part of His Covenant,  He revealed more and more to them and they became ONE COVENANT PEOPLE. 

Long story, short,  there were others who would not accept God's Covenant but wished to come to Him in their own way - by the beliefs and practices that they saw fit to approach Him by.  Babel was just such an experiment that we can see in the Old Testament/Covenant.  They were going to "make a name for themselves"  rather than have God make a name for them, the scripture tells us.  And God did not accept their "religion" but confounded their language so that they could not continue on with "doing it MY WAY."   In the New Testament,  Jesus states specifically,  "Those who worship God must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." 

Through the Covenants, the overarching theme of Sacred Scripture,  God has told man what He wants and does not want and has set into His Covenants blessing for obedience and cursing for disobedience. 

Over the eons of time men have formed many religions all seeking to find the way to God by something that they themselves have invented and approved.  We have come to the sad place where these are referred to as "The World's Great Religions" and political correctness insists that we look on them all as legitimate RELIGIONS. 

There are many religions but only ONE COVENANT.  There are many man-made ladders by which men attempt to climb up to God when they reject God's own way. 

There is a huge difference between those man-made religions and the Covenant that God Himself innaugurated and revealed.  God's Covenant is that which HE BUILT on Rock;  religions are those which men built on sinking sand. 

It does make a difference what we believe.