This presentation respectfully describes how there is only one true way to God

2. THE QUESTION: With all the billions of people in the world and the myriads of different religions on the landscape, how can you say that Christianity is the one and only true way to God?

3. “ It all comes down to pairing your personal inclinations with dogma while paring down the dozens of faiths covered in the book … "You have to pay attention to the initial attraction. But what about the lifestyle and values? Do they really match yours?“ The founders of Beliefnet, a Web site exploring spirituality, had a sense of this fluidity when launching the site in 1999, says Michael Kress, managing editor. The site created the Belief-O-Matic to have fun with all this interest. The 20-question quiz asks people about their core beliefs. At the end of the quiz, people get a ranking of religions that best match their beliefs . - Shopping for a new religion?, Louisville Courier Journal, Aug 31, 2008

4. “ The soul of religion is one, but it is encased in a multitude of forms.” - Gandhi “ I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.“ - Jesus Christ, John 14:6

9. Saying “Yes” to your spouse means saying “No” to all other people in the world (billions of them). Not coincidentally, God likens our relationship with Him as a marriage, with us being the bride and Him being the Bridegroom (Matt. 25; 2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 19:7)

10. How well do you think the government would function in America if Democracy, Communism, along with a few other government systems were practiced all at the same time? For a coherent system of government to function and bear fruit, only one system can be implemented and run (one must dominate, with the others subordinate). Note that other, opposing political parties may exist (pluralism).

11. What would the end result be if Capitalism and Marxism were combined or if one group in a culture used one form of economic policy and another group attempted to practice a system that was 180 degrees from the first? For a coherent system of economic policy to function and bear fruit, only one system can be implemented and run. Note that other theories may exist in the marketplace (pluralism), but only one can dominate at a given time.

12. Each major religion has radically different concepts of God, sin, salvation, Heaven, and Hell. In that sense, they are all exclusive in nature. The law of non-contradiction says they all can’t be right. Just as a math problem has one correct answer, why think it’s not possible for their to be only one way to God?

14. “ Pluralism is a desirable policy in all realms of action and thought except those in which unity is required ... In the sphere of all matters subject to individual thought and decision, pluralism is desirable and tolerable only in those areas that are matters of taste rather than matters of truth … In history, mathematics, science, and philosophy there is room for competing and conflicting theories, hypotheses, doctrines, or propositions, only as long as no one of them is, at a given time, established as true . - Mortimer Adler, Truth in Religion (emphasis in original) “ The truth or falsity of entertained propositions is absolute and immutable. The correctness of the judgments we make about them is relative and mutable. “ – Ibid.

15. Something cannot be both “A” and “non-A” at the same time and in the same sense. “ God exists!” – Christian “ God does not exist!” – Atheist “ You’re both right!” – Unitarian Universalist (Pluralism) “ Let him who disbelieves be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten and burned is not the same thing as to not be beaten and burned.” – Avicenna

18. There is a single, infinite, personal God that created everything that is known. This God is a Trinity, a Unity in diversity, consisting of three distinct persons bound together by a loving relationship. Attributes of God are omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolent, and many more

19. Man was created in the image of God, but utilized his free will to chose disobedience to God over following God’s path. The end result is that every person alive is born separated from God and spiritually dead, with a propensity to sin and choose evil over good. Further, a person’s body is corrupted from the sin disease and is destined to perish. Man cannot save himself and is need of help.

20. God is the offended party and man is the offender. The solution was to have a savior come and represent both parties to pay the penalty for the committed sin. The savior must be God to represent God and be sinless. The savior must be man to represent fallen man, living under the law (Gal. 4:4-5). The second person of the Trinity, the Son, came via the incarnation and became the sacrifice to justify man before God, and then be raised from the dead to give life to those who were devoid of spiritual life.

21. "And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible , let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”" (Matthew 26:39) “ For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6) “ I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, the Christ died needlessly.” (Galatians 2:21)

24. Truth -> Reason -> God -> Revelation -> Jesus -> Individual

29. Saved Unsaved How God Draws the Line Exemplary/Special (e.g. Mother Teresa) Great (e.g. Washington) Good (e.g. Good neighbor) Average (e.g. Normal hard worker) Shady (e.g. Cheats on income taxes) Bad (e.g. Persistent Criminals) Evil (e.g. Hitler)

30. “ When I die, worms will devour my body and I will commit myself to the ‘Great Perhaps’”. - Thomas Hobbes “ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” (1 John 5:13) As G. K. Chesterton said, he will not criticize God for providing one way to Him anymore than he will complain to God about being able to marry only one wife. If God gave man one million ways to Him, man would ask for one million plus one. It is not ‘one way’ that is the issue; it is the requirements set by God for that one way.

32. Should I take antacid or chemotherapy for my stomach ache…? It depends on the truthful answer to the question of “What’s wrong with my stomach?” In the same way, getting the right answers to the three core religious questions (what is the base metaphysical reality, main human religious problem, and the solution to that problem) of life does matter !

33. " Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:11-15) Because God is real, no matter what road you’re on, you will meet Him when you die, regardless of the road you’ve travelled. But what then…?

34. "Lord, there are so many today who are running away from the truth. Oh, that You would be pleased to speak by Your Spirit that Your Word may be known. Lord, hold us fast to the truth of Your Word, bind us to it. May we not be ashamed of the truth of Your Word but proclaim it boldly without compromise. May we not wish to be thought cultured, nor aim to keep in step with the times. May we be side by side with You, O bleeding Savior; and be content to be rejected, be willing to take up unpopular truth, and to hold fast despised teachings of Sacred Scripture to the end. Oh make us faithful unto death.“ - Charles Spurgeon, Dec 30, 1877