Christ IS exclusive. HE said it. If you don’t believe HIM, take it up with Him.
As someone has quoted,
John 10:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
But Christ said the same thing in John 3:16-18 as well,
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
Notice, who ever does NOT believe stands condemned because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John the Baptist said the same thing in John 3:36
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.
Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said the same thing:
Acts 4:10-12
10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 He is “the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.” 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Notice, he said MUST be saved. It is only through belief in Christ that we are saved.
For those who would try to argue that God would never send someone to hell who has not heard him…. Realize that Acts 17:26-27 says,
26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
God WANTS us to find Him. People who are seeking God will find Him – I have read second hand accounts and heard first hand accounts of God speaking to men and women in dreams and visions and them coming to Christ – and there are more cases world wide every year.
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But, in the same way I can enter your home only in the way and time you allow, each of us can only enter God’s house on HIS terms. He said we only get in through belief in Christ.
