Salvation: One Way or Many?

The prevailing and dominant position among most people is that there are numerous paths to God and salvation. It teaches that Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish, and others will be saved by living a “good life”, and God will judge them on the basis of how many good vs evil works they did.

The truth is the complete antithesis of this popular conception. There is only one way of salvation, and that is by being born again through faith in Christ.

Two key Scriptures:

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 14:6

Jesus is THE way! He is the source of all truth. There is eternal life abundant only in Him. Here Christ asserts that NO ONE comes to the Father except through Him. This leaves NO OTHER ways of salvation. Christ is the ONLY way.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:8-12

Here Peter asserts that there is NO salvation apart from Christ. And there is NO other name which man would be saved by.

These Scriptures make it crystal clear that faith in Christ is the sole and exclusive means of salvation.

If a person dies in their sins and isn’t in Christ they go to hell.

Those who affirm biblical salvation will be called intolerant and even bigoted. We must preach the whole counsel of God, no matter how many times we are insulted or attacked.