No Other Name

Acts 4:12 -- "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

This is the battle of our age within the church world and the world as a whole: Is Jesus Christ really the only way of salvation for humanity? We here that all religions are equally true and right for those who practice its teachings but truth by definition is exclusive in and of its self. As Ravi Zacharias has said, "it is more probable for all religions to be wrong than all to be right." Redemption of man as taught in Christianity has no equal in any other religion. All major religions at their core are decisively different. Any serious study of the world religions would demonstrate that all of them have a point of exclusion, not just Christianity. In comparison with all other religious leaders, only Jesus of Nazareth addressed the issues of the sinfulness of the heart and the truth of God being a loving heavenly Father who gives His Son for the sins of the world to deal with this condition. To substantiate this revelation, Jesus dies on a cross for the sins of man and God validates the claim of Christ by demonstrating that He is "the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (Romans 1:4)." No other religious leader has ever done such as this. When Jesus stated that He was "the Way, Truth and Life," He did not qualify it with any other statements of exception. Jesus was not just a good man or a prophet or a great enlightened one, He was and is the Son of the one true God and He alone is qualified to be the Savior of humanity. C.S. Lewis, the brilliant 20th century Christian thinker and writer, stated this about Jesus: "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us (Mere Christianity)." Christ is man's only savior and there in no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. The world must hear this truth by those who hold it in devoted love.