Are There Many Ways to God?

Many people today are uncomfortable with the idea of absolute truth. Like Oprah Winfrey, they think that there are many ways to God. Not only do most people believe there are many ways to God; they think that anyone who believes there is only one way to God is somehow less spiritual, narrow-minded, or even bigoted and racist. However, their insistence that there is no absolute truth or that there are many paths to God in and of itself, constitutes a theological truth claim just as narrow as any other. It is also a self-refuting claim, because if all truth claims are valid, then so is the contradictory claim that says there is only one way to God.


Jesus himself answered the question of how to reach God in various Gospel accounts, but none more clear and unequivocal than this one:

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)


As author C.S. Lewis observed, Jesus’ claim to be the way, the truth, and the life; the only way to the Father meant that He (Jesus) was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord.


Christian author Paul E. Little in his book How to Give Away Your Faith addresses objections that people have to Jesus being the only way to God. He says:

• Our sincerity or intensity of faith cannot produce truth.
• Faith is no more valid than the object of the faith.
• Completely contradictory truth claims cannot be simultaneously true.
• All other religions deny that Jesus is the only true God.
• All other religions say that individuals must somehow merit salvation by their own works.
• Jesus himself repeatedly defined who he was and how salvation is obtained.
• God himself has the right to define the terms of a relationship with him.

I would invite you to consider the truth claim of Jesus: that as the virgin-born, incarnate Son-of-God, He is the only way to the Father, and that the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross for sin and His bodily resurrection from the dead are a testimony to the truth of who He is and how we can be reconciled to God.


The Apostle Peter, who denied Jesus three times prior to the resurrection, made this bold, narrow statement to the Jewish Leaders who had put Jesus to death:
　
"For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, ‘The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved."(Acts 4:11-12)

For additional reasons to believe that Jesus is the only way to God, check out this video by Dr. Bobby Conway, Pastor of Life Fellowship Church in Charlotte NC: