The Real ‘Right’
We live in a world that believes increasingly in pluralism. Pluralism holds that every person’s view is equally valid. At first glance, this might seem OK, but pluralism can only work if there is no such thing as absolute truth – so there must be nothing that is always true for all people in all places at all times.
Pluralism can only work if we think about truth in a relative way. Relativism thinks like this: you might believe something to be right or true, and for you it might be, but that doesn’t mean that same belief is right and true for me. So nothing is always right and true for everyone for all time in all places.
Jesus does not fit into a pluralistic society. When Jesus said ‘No one can come to the Father except through me’ (John 14:6), He was saying something that was true for all people in all places and at all times. If what He said was true and right, then anything that goes against His statement isn’t true and isn’t right.
Today’s world wants to believe there are many ways to God. Jesus in this and many other statements categorically denied even the possibility. If Jesus is the only way to God then there are no other ways.
The Bible is a book of absolutes because God is a God of absolutes. Jesus was and is utterly unique. He is the unique Son of God who left heaven, came to earth, lived as a full human being and whose earthly mission was to die for the sins of the world. God put His stamp of approval on all His Son did by supernaturally raising Him from the dead. He did this so we would believe everything Jesus said was true.
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