I Don’t Really Understand

We want this article to be short but there is an important message in it. We hope that you will read and consider what we are saying.

I just was looking at maybe 100 (or even 200) different pictures (and stories) of different religions in the world. We may call them “World Religions” and this would include such religions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and others. Of course, we refer to different religions within “Christendom” as well.

From what I’ve read, it would seem that many people just think that all of these religions are fine. I can recall sitting on a porch with my grandmother when I was young. I was pointing out to her that if God says something, we must follow it. And there is only one single way to God. In return, she said that she thought that life is like a mountain. We are all walking up the mountain, but we’re all taking different routes. In the end, we will all make it, we will all reach the destination—of reaching the top.

But is this really the way it is? Are we all taking different ways but going to the same place? Jesus our Lord said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). We also read, “There is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Does this sound like many roads leading to God? This also of what we read later: “He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life” (1 John 5:12). Obviously, there are dozens of other passages that may apply to this.

Earlier we stated that there are various world religions and they all think that they will reach the “mountain top.” But you and I know that this just won’t happen. If we are walking different roads, different routes, we won’t reach the same destination! We may think that we will. We may assume that we will. But we won’t.

This may seem like a generous way of looking at things but really it is an evil way. If God has said that one plus three equals four it is wrong and evil to say that it doesn’t. If we tell people that they can add numbers and both seven and two are correct when the only right answer is four, it is wrong! And this is the way with religion. If a Hindu thinks that he will reach God and heaven by believing in 330 million “gods” or even two “gods” and we know that there is only one (1) God, anything else is wrong—totally wrong.

The same is true for the Buddhist who may disbelieve and happens to be a practical atheist, he is wrong. And if the Muslim repeats the phrase that “Allah is the One God,” and he is not, it is not only wrong but even cruel! The same is true for the many other religions of the world. If a Catholic thinks that he can reach God through Mary, the Mother of Jesus, he is wrong. So wrong that he is following a false way!

There is an accepted principle that is the “law of non-contradition.” Have you heard of it? It says, “We may state the “law” of logic in this way: “The law of non-contradiction is a rule of logic. It states that if something is true, then the opposite of it is false. For example, if an animal is a cat, the same animal cannot be not a cat. Or, stated in logic, if +p, then not -p, +p cannot be -p at the same time and in the same sense.” https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction

Applied to religion, if God exists then non-God does not exist. Or stated another way, “If there is a God, then atheism is false.” Applied to our topic at hand, if Islam is true, then Hinduism is false; if Hinduism is true, then Islam is false. This is the same principle that we find with all of the religions—such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Taoism, and so forth. Furthermore, within the broad category of “Christianity,” we must say that if Catholicism is true, then Orthodoxy is false and vice versa. If Anglicanism is true, then Presbyterianism is false and vice versa. We can see how important it is to seek God’s truth and to make sure we are within His truth in order to believe and do the truth!

Therefore, when a person of a world religion (suppose that the person is a Muslim) knows that he or she believes and speaks the truth, we need to know that this affirmation is contrary to and contradicts what the Hindu is saying when he or she says that they represent the truth. It can’t be both ways. As much as the modern non-theist or Theist wants to believe otherwise, we just can’t have it both ways. Either one is true or one or both are false. In this case, both are false, totally false, and deadly false.

Remember that Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). He is the way—the only way. He is the truth—the only truth that saves. He is the life—the only way to eternal life. This would say that Hinduism is false; we can’t have three or 330 million ways! This would say that Buddhism is false. It would say that Islam is false. It would say that Taoism is false. It would say that Catholicism is false. We can’t have Mary as the way to God since Jesus said that He is the way, the truth, and the life.

Since we can have no contradiction in religion and since it would be a contradiction to say that Mary and Muhammad are both ways to God, we know that this cannot be. We can have no contradiction and both have insight into the only way to God. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life—alone.

Will you accept this? Will you believe it?