QT 15 Aug 11, If Christianity is true, all other religions are false

Jer 44:15-18 (NIV) Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present — a large assembly — and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah, 16 "We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord! 17 We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm. 18 But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."

NOTE: This certainly shows the deceptiveness of sin.  Some Jews have interpreted God's mercy as favor from false gods.  They have created for themselves a theology that suits their desires.  This despite all the prophecies from Jeremiah over the last 30 years and the refusal to believe by the Jews at the time.  And yet still, the people choose to believe what their own hearts want to believe over the idea of truth.  We are like that today.  Any religious idea is okay if you want to believe it.  If you want a God without Hell, that is fine.  If you want spiritual stones and peace with nature as your religion, that is fine.  But the problem is that there is only one truth and it does not matter how much a person believes in a false truth as okay, it is still false.  Christianity is exclusive, it can be nothing else.  It claims that God himself came to earth to die for our sins.  God himself claimed to be the only was to salvation.  If those statements are not true, then it was not God.  And if it was not God, then our salvation was not paid for on the cross.  One cannot have it both ways.  Either Christianity is true and all other religions false, or Christianity is not true and all other religions are questionable.