The idea that Christianity, or even the biblical faiths, have a monopoly on religious truth is an outrageous and absurd religious chauvinism.
// Rosemary Radford Ruether
We believe that all religions are the basically the same. They all believe in love and goodness. They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation. We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him and reality will adapt accordingly; the universe will readjust and history will alter. We believe that there is no absolute truth, except the truth that there is no absolute truth.
// Steve Turner, English journalist “Modern Thinker's Creed”
My position is that all great religions are fundamentally equal.
// Mahatma Ghandi
Response to Metaphysical Pluralism (Relativism)
1. Inclusivism (Absolute Relativism) is a logical contradiction.
2. The purpose of religion is to believe something because you believe it to be based on truth and reality.
3. The world’s religions are fundamentally different.
4. Different religious beliefs remain logically irreconcilable.
Within the discipline of Logic, The Principle of Contradiction (principium contradictionis in Latin) is that contradictory statements cannot both, at the same time, be true, e.g. the two propositions A is B and A is not B are mutually exclusive. If one is true, the other is not.
Christian civility does not commit us to a relativistic perspective. Being civil doesn’t mean that we cannot criticize what goes on around us. Civility doesn’t require us to approve of what other people believe and do. It is one thing to insist that other people have the right to express their basic convictions; it is another thing to say that they are right in doing so.
// Richard J. Mouw, Uncommon Decency
We must note the difference between equal toleration under the law and equal validity according to truth.
// R.C. Sproul
As soon as the notion of sameness moves beyond vague generalities—‘every religion has some version of the Golden Rule’—it founders on the fact that the religions differ in what hey consider essential and nonnegotiable.
// Huston Smith, Theologian
One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.
// Phillip E. Johnson
I was once invited to be the Christian representative in a panel discussion with a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam…We all agreed on the statement: “If Christians are right about Jesus being God, the Muslims and Jews fail in a serious way to love God as God really is, but if Muslims and Jews are right that Jesus is not God but rather a teacher or prophet, then Christians fail in a serious way to love God as God really is.
// Tim Kellar, The Reasons for God
Any one who would become a pluralist must first abandon the very principles of logic that make all significant thought, action, and communication possible.
// Ronald H. Nash, Philosopher
Religion is fundamentally about truth: trying to figure out what is real and how best to represent it.
// John Stackhouse, Humble Apologetics
John 14.6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Acts 4.12
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
Romans 10.9
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The Uniqueness of Christianity
1. The Message (The Gospel & The Incarnation
Most other religions teach salvation by good works, but Christianity offers salvation by grace alone through faith. In other religions man is constantly seeking God, but in Christianity God is in search of man.
// Steve Kumar
We cannot climb up to heaven to discover God, but God has come to earth, in the person of His Son, to reveal Himself to us in the only way we could really understand: in terms of a human life.
// J.N.D. Anderson, Jesus Christ: The Witness of History
