John 14:6 – Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

John 3:17 – God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

Acts 4:12 – There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as superior and more enlightened than the beliefs of most major religions. So the proponents of this view do the very thing they forbid in others. -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

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There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]…We have to ask: “What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?” -Lesslie Newbigin

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“The social conditionedness of belief is a fact, but it cannot be used to argue that all truth is completely relative or else the very argument refutes itself.” -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

“Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would have been quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist…. If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn’t be a pluralist. Does it follow that…his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?” -Alvin Plantinga

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It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions (namely that all are equal) is right. We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways. -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

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John 17:21 – I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

Cultural pluralism means to accept and celebrate different, cultures, people, races or religions. Metaphysical Pluralism means to accept all the ideas of those religions, cultures and worldviews as true. We need to practice cultural pluralism, but not metaphysical pluralism.

Acts 10:15 – But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior. -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

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Genesis 1:27 – So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them

2 Peter 3:9 – He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 

Matthew 7:12 – Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.

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Christianity not only leads its members to believe people of other faiths have goodness and wisdom to offer, it also leads them to expect that many will live lives morally superior to their own. -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

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Acts 2:45 – They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need.

Galatians 3:28 – There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

Galatians 2:10 – Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do.

Why would such an exclusive belief system lead to behavior that was so open to others? It was because Christians had within their belief system the strongest possible resource for practicing sacrificial service, generosity, and peace-making. At the very heart of their view of reality was a man who died for his enemies, praying for their forgiveness. Reflection on this could only lead to a radically different way of dealing with those who were different from them. -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

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