“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”–Acts 4:12
We accept narrowness in many areas of life without raising a question: We are allowed to drive only on one side of the road; we can only access the Internet through prescribed protocols; the law of gravity cannot be repealed; the length of a single night and day lasts a set amount of time; the distance between two geographical points remains constant.
We live within those fixed constraints daily without ever seriously objecting. But when it comes to salvation, we are not so easily convinced. We don’t like the idea that God has prescribed only one avenue for salvation—through the person and work of Jesus Christ. We want to make accommodations for all the other world religions, suggesting they are all “different roads leading to the same place”—yet without any reference to Jesus Christ and His atonement for mankind’s sin. Our objections leave out the most important fact: God is God and we are not. Just as we cannot change His law of gravity, neither can we change His “law” of salvation.
To reject God’s Savior is to reject God’s salvation. To accept both is to honor Him as Lord and God.(Turning Point)
The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.–Alan Redpath
