Don't All Religions Lead To GOD?
Can Christianity be faulted for unabashed
arrogance in claiming to offer the only way to God? After all, don't
all religions lead to God?
A number of people equate religious tolerance
with religious truth. Many assume that all religions are basically the
same and that all beliefs are therefore equally valid. They picture
each religion as having identical faces hidden behind different masks.
Sound reasoning tells us, however, that all
religions are not essentially the same merely because they contain some
similarities. A brief survey of a few religions would quickly reveal
that every single one of them has competing claims which contradict
other religions. How, for example, can someone logically square the
Hindu teaching that the universe is God, with the Muslim belief that
Allah, the God of Islam, is distinct from the universe? Any honest investigator
would have to admit that religions harbor irreconcilable differences,
demonstrating that they cannot all possibly lead to the same God. Logically
speaking, they can all be wrong, but they cannot all be right.
We, therefore, need to ask which religion
points to the right God, and consider how certain its claims really
are. Regarding these questions, Christianity towers above the religions
of the world. For instance, while every religion would have man try
to reach up to God, Christianity says that it's God who reached down
to man - that only through God's grace and mercy, and never by mere
human effort, can we ever hope to obtain God's favor.
Furthermore, the Lord Jesus, who declared
this message, claimed to be God and backed His pronouncements with His
own bodily resurrection. No other religious figure throughout history
has ever justified any claim with such power and authority. And precisely
because Jesus pointed to Himself as the only way to God, and his message
needs to be heard by everyone, everywhere, regardless of their religious
beliefs.
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