H.A. Ironside wrote:
While presenting the Gospel on the streets of a California city, we were often interrupted about as follows,
” Look here, sir! There are hundreds of religions in this country, and the followers of each sect think theirs is the only right one. How can poor, plain men like us find out what is really the truth?”
We generally replied something like this,
“Hundreds of religions, you say? That’s strange; I have only heard of two.”
“Oh, but you surely know there are more than that?”
“Not at all, Sir, I find, I admit, many shades of difference in the opinions of those comprising the two great schools; but after all there are but two. The one covers salvation by doing; the other, all who have been saved by something done. So you see the whole question is very simple. Can you save yourself, or must you be saved by another? If you can be your own saviour, you do not need my message. If you cannot, you may well listen to it.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast. (10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.