Jesus is the only way

A writer recently commented, “You cannot be 100% right about what you believe, because you are not God, you are not divine. You are simply a fallible human…”. Now assuming the writer believes their own statement, that statement itself, made by a fallible human, might not be 100% right. So, why should anyone believe it? Whilst it is true that, to err is human, it does not logically follow that humans always err. Humans can be 100% right about faith related matters. Faith is not the complete absence of reason. So, is “religious tolerance” (whatever that means) a noble virtue? In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He used the word ‘the’, definite article. He did not say, “one of the truths” or “one of the ways”. If religious pluralism were true, for Jesus to make such a claim, He would have to be either a liar or a narrow-minded Jew. But this is certainly not the case, is it? Christianity, not to be confused with Christianity-and-water (watered down Gospel), makes it abundantly clear that Jesus is the only way. Some may find it strange, or offensive, the claim that there is only one correct religious worldview. This is because of the conventional view that religious relativism is correct and is the way all educated, tolerant and cultured people think. Unfortunately, the conventional view often serves to protect people from the painful job of thinking. People are relativists in one way by being absolutist and dogmatic in another – generally towards things they dislike. People need to be loved more than they need to be tolerated. If you love someone, you tell them the truth. The truth is in Acts 4:12, where it says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” What’s that name? Jesus, of course. Saved from what? Well, that is another story.