2 Corinthians 1:2 (KJV)

Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

 Jesus Christ is the son of God, the truth,the way, the life. By his crucifixion and resurrection he paid for the sins of all mankind. His life and ministry are recounted in the four Gospels of the New Testament. He was born a Jew in Bethlehem before the death of Herod , and he died while Pontius Pilate was Roman governor of Judaea ( 28–30). His mother, Mary, was married to Joseph, a carpenter of Nazareth. Nothing of his childhood is mentioned after the writings of his birth in Matthew and Luke, nothing is known, except for one visit to Jerusalem with his parents.

 He began his ministry about age 30, becoming a preacher, teacher, and healer. He gathered disciples in the region of Galilee, including the 12 Apostles, and preached the imminent arrival of the Kingdom of God. His moral teachings, outlined in the Sermon on the Mount, and his many reported miracles won him a growing number of followers, who believed that he was the promised messiah.

On Passover he entered Jerusalem on a donkey, where he shared the Last Supper with his disciples and was betrayed to the Roman authorities by Judas Iscariot. Arrested and tried, he was condemned to death as a political agitator and was crucified and buried. Three days later visitors to his tomb found it empty. As written in the Gospels, he appeared several times to his disciples before ascending into heaven. Jesus was sent to earth to pay for all man's sins, Jesus is the only way to Heaven.                                                                                                                 

Through him we are given a the gift of salvation, a future, the promise of eternal life.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV)

        For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ