A new report published yesterday (June 23rd) by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that
people from all major religious categories believe that their religion is not the only path to eternal life, and that there’s not just one correct version of their faith. The report is based on a massive national poll commissioned by the organization last year. According to Rev. Tom Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, “What most people are saying is, ‘Hey, we don’t have a hammerlock on God or salvation, and God’s bigger than us and we should respect other people.'” Rev. Reese is partly correct. God is definitely bigger than us. But we should respect Him and His word given to us.
This report is nothing new. Anyone who cares about the direction our culture and nation are going in relation to religion or more importantly the gospel of Jesus Christ has seen this coming for a long time. This direction is right out of the post-modern textbook. The church of today continues to water down the message Jesus Christ commissioned us to give to the nations. And as we cowardly buckle under the pressure to not just tolerate other religious views but accept them as well, we will continue to see this tolerance of an anti-gospel grow and grow. We will also see more intolerance for those of us who will not, by the grace of God, allow our spine to become like rubber and accept this notion. This accommodation that flies in the face of John 14:6, as Jesus emphatically states:
I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
This is the essence of the gospel. Jesus came to this earth and lived a sinless life. He came to die for the sinners. He died on the cross and took on the wrath of God that was due to the sinner. He was raised again on the third day and before he ascended back to heaven He gave us a commission to take what we know about Him to all the nations. We cannot compromise that. So which path are you on? The narrow one that leads to truth and Christ or the supposed many other paths to heaven and eternal life?
Upon This Rawk 
Really Robin
June 25, 2008 at 10:25 am
The body of Christ must learn to speak His truth in love. Without sneering, condemning, or casting judgment on the lost, [not my job – and EVERYONE should thank God for that!!] we need to share with them
Matthew 7:13-14:
“Go in through the narrow gate; for the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the road broad, and many travel it;
but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
And even before that, we need to lovingly share with the lost about sin. We need to help them understand the wage of their sin, the need to repent of their sin, their need for salvation from their sin, and the One – the ONLY One – who can provide that salvation!