Christianity is a religion

Thanks for this, I will try to make the most of it. I believe Christianity is not a religion, I will try and use reason to suggest to you why Christianity is not a religion but a plain relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ. Religion is like politics, you have different political parties, likewise you have many religions. They all say one way is right, and this way is right, both religion and politics say that. But how does religion say this is the right way? Religion says, you get to heaven by doing good works. Like feeding the poor, obeying your mother and father, not having sex before marriage etc...On and on and on. However it is of course good to keep to good works and deeds for faith is shown by good works. But good works mean nothing since you have already fallen short of God's glory. So how does anyone make their efforts count? I am not saying doing good gets anyone into the Kingdom of God because it doesn't. What gets men and woman into the Kingdom of God? Faith in Christ, and what will you show when you have faith in Christ? Good deeds and a visible effort to do good for all. Christianity isn't a religion, if you say Christianity is a religion you say that the court of law on earth inherits religious schemes. If you say righteousness and justice is religious then you say the court of law is religious. For God, the Christian God is righteous in every single way, He is just in every single way. He is also loving because of those other two, in every...Single way. God will act in the precisely the same matter that the court of law does on earth, but in a even more righteous and just way. God will use evidence against your sins, and you will not be justified unless you accept His Son. It sound stricted and narrow minded, because it is. The truth is not broad and wide, a wide truth can been seen and many angles, a wide and broad truth is something like, "I think." Or, "We exist." But I am talking about definision, a accurate reading of righteousness and justice, which even the smallest sin will be noticed and be held as evidence. If the law on earth could be like God, it would. So a thief breaks into your house and murders you family in the night, missing you because you were out late, taking your parents bank details, credit cards and the car keys and car, you walk back to your house extremely startled and in shame that you were out late while you mother, father and younger sister were murdered as if they had the value of lumps of coal. After crying your eyes out and waving your fist up high in the air as if at God, you want to bring righteous justice upon this man who broke into your home and murdered your family (the police are already involved and seeking this man, you also hear that the thief has cracked into your families savings and has stolen the whole $100,000). No news of this thief comes about and 2 years later the police close the case until further evidence is found. However 15 years later the police find the thief who murdered your family after changing his identity and name, they bring him to court and you go along to. Once at court the man defends his case and says, "But your Honour, I have a family and two beautiful children only aged 1 and 3 . I am a changed man now, what I did that night was a complete act of selfishness and hatred, please your Honour let me go free so I can watch my children grow up." At this point religion would say, "Yes ok you may go free, you are charged not guilty." You would feel so angry that you would ring the governments and even try to enter the front doors of the White House you would seek the best loyal, you would spread the news like the black death and you would never give it up. Christianity at this point will say... "No, sorry, we have the evidence for your crimes, (depending which state, he would be put to death, but in this example he does not) you are sentence for life is prison, till death." (He will never get out of prison). But hang on aren't we all in this mans seat? Yes, we are indeed. But God who in this example is the judge, sent His Son Christ to pay for your unjust, thoughtless, God hating sin. That is like the judge concluding you guilty and then afterwards comes straight down from the high and powerful throne and pays the price and says, "Go on free, I will take your punishment for your crime and go to prison until I die." Were as religion would gladly allow any old person to stroll through doors which no sin should enter. But from what basis does a religious person have to say, "I am free of sin, and my good deeds now count, because I am free of sin."? Don't you see men looking proud and seemingly holy wearing expensive clothing and long robes so everyone can see? They try to impress by they efforts at religion, by doing good and speaking good things. Not only that, but loving those men do not so much love, but those who are religious and seem to love, sure I am not saying they are haters, they love but not genuinely, they love for their religion. Christians love because of what Jesus did for them on the cross, and you can see what he did in a watered down version above as I have explained. Religion is mans way to God, Christianity is God's way to man. And that is not religion. Religion is the works and efforts, but all of this has been done on the cross, no need for works and effort, but to believe and take faith in Christ. And the sign that someone has faith is by good works and efforts, yet they are not needed. But a saved person, a Christian will want to serve God because he or she understands what God did. This is pointless anyway if you are to argue that Christianity is a religion, you will never admit is isn't. Saying that Christianity is not a religion and not accepting Christ and believe in him is like knowing the winning euro million jack pot of ï¿½98,000,000,000 and willingly deciding to work over time for an extra ï¿½20 and by doing so missing the chance to give in the correct numbers. In the same sense, this is like admitting Christian is not a religion, and because of that, understand Christianity is the truth yet doing doing about it.