Chrisitanity is the Only True Religion

[The following is the article I wrote for the pastor's column in the local paper today. Thanks to all of you who have given me positive feedback. Some have said, as I well agree, that I may get some backlash for it. I'm posting it so that it is open for comment]


Many in our day cry “All religions are basically the same” or “People worship the same God just by different names.” But let it be clear: Christianity is the only true religion.

Someone will say that such a claim is preposterous, not to mention pompous. But it is true. Christianity is the only true religion.

It is a lot like a game I used to play called “King of the Mountain.” Everyone would scramble up a steep snow bank and try to push everyone else down. The one who stayed on top was the victor.

Christianity remains on top because it is the only worldview that presents a consistent and coherent philosophy of life. All other religions fall woefully short. Their worldviews are shown to be false because they are logically inconsistent and reduce to absurdity when pressed.

For instance, if you confess that all religions are basically the same, you not only voice your complete ignorance of world religions, you make God into a liar. Who could trust a god that tells one people to believe one thing and another group to believe something completely different? Such is complete nonsense.

Or take Hinduism. Hinduism teaches that everything in the world is one and that everything is god. I am one with you and we are both god—and so is the chair in which you sit. But what then happens to evil? If the Hindu was consistent, evil could not exist. Evil would be just as right as good, for they are one. Though no Hindu would admit to such an absurd statement, it is the logical conclusion of his belief.

Choose any other life-philosophy—Islam, secular humanism, Mormonism, etc.—and you will get the same result. When you press their views to their logical conclusion, they end in absolute absurdity. As one theologian has said, “[All] non-Christian philosophical systems cannot properly and consistently operate within God’s created world because they are inconsistent with the reality that He created.”

This is why the Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. As the Author of all order, truth, beauty, goodness, and reason Christ alone provides the only consistent and coherent belief system. Rejecting Christ means rejecting the creator and source of truth. That rebellion then leads to a life full of contradictions, confusion, and utterly ridiculous notions of morality.

This is averted though when we renounce these competing philosophies and submit to Christ as the only true God. If we heed what he has revealed in Scripture, our thinking will become aligned with God’s thinking. If we let the Bible shape our minds, our reality will begin to mesh with Christ’s reality. We will, in other words, possess the right basis for understanding what is true, right and eternally lasting.

A multitude of philosophies may present themselves as viable options, but only one stands as undefeatable on top of the worldview mountain. Christianity is king because Christ is the almighty king and creator of the universe.