Not every path leads to God

Judi Tepe expressed in her recent letter that her hope was that “a person of faith is tolerant and believes that there are many paths to God.” Basic logic would suggest that if one belief system is true, then all others are untrue or false.

All can't claim to be holders of truth. How, then, can one know, you ask? Jesus Christ himself said that he was the way, the truth and the life and that no one could come to the Father except through him (John 14:6).

How does this proclamation then hold up to being the source of truth? No other leader of any other faith or belief system, however great or small, has ever claimed to be the only source of truth and the only way to God.

What else sets Jesus apart from all those other leaders? They are still in their graves while Jesus Christ is alive today, yet proclaiming himself as “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). We just celebrated again his first coming as our savior with his offering of a free gift for all who would choose to receive it and then become his followers.

Being alive now, he is coming a second time (very soon, we hope), but this time as a judge and king.

Millions of folks across the ages have chosen to heed his words and follow him because of who he is and what he said. Check it out in the Bible in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Either He is who He claimed to be and his actions confirmed it or He isn't. Both can't be true.

William Peterson

Elgin