Many religions offer a promise of salvation from life’s challenges. Most beliefs teach that we must work for freedom. While others provide no hope of release from suffering for humanity, they simply accept life as it is. Various methods of salvation involve natural works to accumulate good karma or merit points with God. It’s like climbing a mountain to reach God or deliverance from life’s struggles. Still, while climbing, the climber faces an eruption, an avalanche, a thunderstorm, and mountain lions, making it humanly impossible. In contrast, in Christianity, Jesus (the Messiah) ascends the metaphorical mountain himself for us. He walks through fire and magma unburned (Dan 3:1-30), parts the wall of snow and ice (Ex 14:15-31, Josh 3:9-17), even walks on rushing water (Mark 6:45-56), quiets the storm (Mark 4:35-41), and shuts the lion’s mouth (Dan 6:1-28). He reaches the top for us and moves the mountain (Mark 11:22-24) by mediating a New Covenant relationship with God where his sacrifice covers our sin (failures to keep God’s law), so we are saved from sin’s eternal consequences. In other words, we can’t save ourselves, so we must trust God for it.