“We will talk to you about religion” is the seemingly kindly offer people give us today. But then they add the disclaimer: “Just do not make religion personal.”
“Christianity is all right,” they assure us, “if you are willing to be tolerant and not try to make something exclusive of your Christian faith.” Most people seem to have come to terms with an acceptance of religion if it does not have the cross of Christ within it.
But as soon as you begin to quote the words of Jesus and the Scriptures that declare there is only one mediator between God and mankind, as soon as you insist that Christ has given us the only way to God through His death and atonement, you are dead!
“That is bigoted, narrow dogmatism,” they shout. “No more dialogue with you! You have no place on a panel where we are co-operatively interested in intellectual ferment!”
John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:1–8
Jesus, Author of our Faith, 48, 49.