Luke 5:27-32
The Calling of Levi
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Acts 4:12
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Jesus says He came for sinners...Without Him we cannot remedy our sins...We are sinners and incompetent in resolving them...He is the Only One that can fix our sins...This is one of the reasons He came to earth...To aid and help us and keep us from sinning...By His death on the cross, we are saved from sins...We are saved because of Him...
Because Jesus forgives us of our sins, even though we are born sinners, it makes Christianity different than the other religions...Christianity depends on Jesus, and Him dying on the Cross forgiving us...Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved...Christianity is not Christianity without Jesus...