The Christian apologist, John Lennox, who holds a Ph.D. from Oxford and another from Cambridge, rightfully contends that Christianity is distinct from every other religion. All of the religions of the world teach that the unsaved must do religious works and earn God’s acceptance somewhere in the future. Christianity teaches that when we “believe,” which is an act of our will to receive Christ as our Savior, God accepts us right then, and then we work for him.

Lennox tells how he proposed to his wife, Sally. When he proposed, he handed her a cookbook and said, If you cook more good meals than bad meals over the next 40 years, I will accept you, and we can get married. Not really; he was illustrating what the world's religions advocate.

That is what the world's religions teach. Acceptance has to be earned and is at the end of someone’s life only if the unsaved has performed more good works than bad works.