This is why.
The Bible says that there is only one true God. There are plenty of lesser spirits that would masquerade as a supreme deity - but any showdown between them and the Lord will reveal who is infinitely greater. There are some powerful spiritual beings out there but there are none that can stand before Jesus Christ. All bow the knee or flee.
I've experienced the instant obedience of a demonic spirit to the name of Jesus. My parents have been involved in deliverance cases where the power of God prevails. There are lots of reputable people who could give you account after account on the supremacy of Jesus Christ over every other so-called god. There is no Saviour other than the God who first revealed Himself to the Jews, then clothed Himself in flesh to be called Jesus Christ, the Anointed One.
Anyone who misuses the name of Jesus and mocks Him has something coming. They simply just don't know Who they just slandered. They will one day, and it will become painfully clear who is the real fool. The Lord is a formidable foe, and one to be reckoned with.
The whole of salvation and faith in the Word of God all rest on the foundational truth that this God is the one, true God, the only one. If this one point is not upheld, the rest becomes a sham.
C.S Lewis got it right in his book Mere Christianity:
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse."
"You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
It is both possible to seek Him and personally experience how real God is. He looks upon all those who love and seek the truth of any matter, and He said that He draws near to those who draw near to Him. He is not afraid of our questions or doubts, and He will show Himself to those who sincerely want to know whether He's the real deal or not. He is and He can. Will you?
I love those who love me, and those who diligently seek Me shall find Me.
Proverbs 8:17
For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
aWho did not create it in vain,
Who formed it to be inhabited:
"I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain';
I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 45: 18-19
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