Exclusivity

January 28

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the Word of God.” This assertion in Romans 10:17 makes a remarkable point that everyone who hungers and thirsts after a knowledge of the One who is All and who is In All must heed.

The commonly held view in the Western World today that ‘all faiths, lead to God’ cannot be substantiated by the Bible. Indeed, Christianity is not the only belief system that lays claim to exclusivity when it comes to being the one route to heaven. Another worldview is much more dogmatic in its assertion that it represents the only way to God.

Islam encompasses every nuance of an adherent’s life experience. It dictates how a believer must dress, with which hand a believer must eat, with whom a believer may travel, how a believer must engage in warfare in order to attain immediate access to heaven. And it requires that the one who espouses Islam may not investigate other faiths!

The Judeo-Christian Bible says, however, “Ye shall seek Me and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart” (Deuteronomy 4:29). When one has sought, the reality shall explode within his sensibilities that through all the holy books and religious doctrine he’s searched, his true faith came when he heard and read and embraced the Christ, the living Word of God.