{"id":10888,"date":"2016-08-17T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-christ-the-only-way\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T01:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:23:37","slug":"is-christ-the-only-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-christ-the-only-way\/","title":{"rendered":"IS CHRIST THE ONLY WAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b>JOHN 14:1\u201311<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>(John 14:6)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Is Christianity the only way to God? Aren\u2019t all religions ultimately the same, and aren\u2019t they all ways to God? These are frequently asked questions, and we need to think about them so that we might learn how to give clear and compelling answers in defense of God\u2019s truth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>The content of Christianity<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When we examine the content of the world religions, we see that at cardinal points of values and truth claims, they are mutually exclusive. The New Testament tells us that justification is by faith, that there is a necessary content to that faith, and that if you reject that faith you cannot be justified.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>No religion except Christianity has an atonement. How can a person believe that Christ\u2019s atonement saves him, and yet also think that the atonement is unnecessary? Let me be candid: When people say that all religions are basically the same, they are actually saying that they know little or nothing about world religion. They are simply expressing a popular sentiment which they haven\u2019t thought out to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>One way<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The notion that all religions are valid is logically impossible. If all are valid ways to God, then Christianity is also valid and Jesus is simply one of many ways to God. But we find that Jesus said He was the <i>only<\/i> way, and that no one can come to God except through Him. Jesus Himself eliminated all other ways.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Thus, if Christ is one of the ways to God, He has to be the only way. Or else this Jesus, who is one of the ways, is dead wrong when He claims to be the only way, in which case it would be foolish to think that He is even one of the ways.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Christians did not come up with the idea that Jesus is the only way to God. That idea originated with Jesus. If He was wrong, then Christianity has no validity at all. If He was right, then there is no other way.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If some other way of salvation had been possible, God would not have sent His only Son to die in anguish. Ask today for the ability to state clearly for those who ask you why Jesus is the only way to heaven. As Peter teaches, \u201calways be prepared to make a defense \u2026 for the hope that is in you\u201d (1 Peter 3:15).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>tuesday<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>march<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN 14:1\u201311 Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me\u201d (John 14:6). Is Christianity the only way to God? Aren\u2019t all religions ultimately the same, and aren\u2019t they all ways to God? These are frequently asked questions, and we need to think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-christ-the-only-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IS CHRIST THE ONLY WAY?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}