Youve heard it said that We are all Gods children." This rings flowery and nice.Its an insidious lie.Indeed God both created and loves in a way most unfathomable everyone who ever lived. He wove us together in our mothers womb and numbered our every hair. But God the Father has only one begotten Son. The rest of us in order to become one of Gods children must be adopted in by and through the One Who is the Son: Jesus Christ. Those who are not adopted are not children of God. Christ and Christ alone is the way the truth and the life."Indeed to become a child of God we must ask God through Christ to adopt us. We mustnt just believe upon Him for Even the demons believe that" (see James 2:19) but rather we must also accept Him. We must follow Jesus the one true God as our only God. But to all who believed him and accepted him (Jesus) he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12)Dont believe? Dont accept? You have no right to become a child of God.And thats unholy hell.Im not here to question God. I can neither fully understand nor explain why what He says it is so. I can only convey to you that He unmistakably unequivocally and without stuttering says it is so.And so it is so.For my thoughts are not your thoughtsneither are your ways my ways declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)The postmodern concept of religious pluralism is likewise an insidious lie. Its a relativist tool of deception dreamed up the greatest of all deceivers. Its a false religion jazzed-up paganism propagated by the rulers the authorities the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (see Ephesians 6:12).Merriam Webster defines pluralism" in the context of which I refer as a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality."The goal of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the narrow gate" that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus) while at the same time herding them along the broad road" to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).Pluralism is a non-starter. Its inherently self-defeating contradictory and frankly just plain stupid. Pick your ism" be it progressivism socialism Hinduism Buddhism communism Marxism atheism et al. and central to each you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.Each of the worlds major religions fundamentally contradicts the other. They cannot all be true. Either one is true or none is true.Jesus said Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it." (Matthew 7:13) Again Jesus alone is that narrow gate."Heres the thing. You can deny Christ until the day you die. But after that you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."John 3:36 warns: Whoever believes in the Son (Jesus) has eternal life but whoever rejects the Son will not see life for Gods wrath remains on him."Christ is both tolerant and intolerant utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. He said in no uncertain terms: I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)Universalists atheists pluralists and other followers of false gods and religions take note: Jesus rather conspicuously did not say: No one comes to the Father except through me the Buddha Muhammad Ganesh or L. Ron Hubbard."The narrow gate to heaven is utterly exclusive.Yet Christ also promised us this: Come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I give you is light." (Matthew 11:28-29)Romans 10:13 is even more direct: Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."The narrow gate to heaven is wholly inclusive.If religious pluralism is true which it cannot be then Jesus is a liar. And if Jesus is a liar then Carl Sagan was right when he said The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be."Worm food.Thank God Jesus is not a liar.Still some apostate celebrity mega-church pastors like Rob Bell have become wealthy calling Jesus a liar. They teach the heretical doctrine of universal salvation" which suggests that ultimately everyone ends up in heaven even those who rejected Christ while here on earth.Bell and others like him claim that were all Gods children."This is a pseudo-Christian form of religious pluralism that may well condemn untold millions to include celebrity mega-church pastors like Rob Bell to the unimaginable horror of eternal separation from God. (Rob brother I pray that youll repent posthaste and ask Christs forgiveness for both your heresy and for leading your flock to slaughter. Hell forgive you just like hes forgiven me for all the crap Ive pulled over the years.)And the Truth will set you free.Romans 8:1-2 promises: Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death."By logical extension the converse is true. There is condemnation for those who are not in Christ Jesus. Until and unless you believe upon accept and follow Jesus you remain imprisoned under the law of sin and death.Unconvinced? You dont have to believe to quietly pray this simple prayer to yourself: Jesus if youre out there please reveal yourself to me. If youre real help thou my unbelief."If Im right if Jesus is not a liar and He is who He says He is then you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by inquiring further.If you dont inquire further you have everything to lose.
