Scandalized by Particularity

[288 words] The doctrine of religious pluralism says that all roads, spiritually speaking, end up at the same destination. It’s only that––so goes the belief––we’re all just taking different paths to the same god. But if all religions are the same, Jesus Christ is a liar, and He died in vain. It is the scandal of particularity, that there is but one God, in covenant with one people, who sent his one and only begotten Son to redeem the world that is so challenging for the world to accept. Jesus said, “I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. No one comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6). Simon Peter said, “There is no other name given under heaven among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Paul said in another passage in Ephesians, “You were without God and without hope in…