It was this Certificate which he was to deliver to the gate of heaven. It was this certificate which Ignorance did not have. So first the spiritual life is a journey, and second the journey to life begins at the narrow gate which is Jesus Christ. Those ate the first two points I want to make. As one reads the book, Pilgrim s Progress, what comes across is the difficulty of the journey, and the fact that many do not make it.
Many pilgrims die along the way.
Many are lured into side paths and what appear to be short-cuts but which end in spiritual death. Along the way Christian meets many deceivers, false apostles masquerading as angels of light. I am doing a personal study of Mormonism so as to teach it this fall in a class. Joseph Smith is such a false prophet, a false apostle, which has led millions of well-meaning people to spiritual destruction. As Christian travels along the way the most dangerous deceivers, in my opinion, are Religion and Riches.