I’ve just read the March issue and feel a rising indignation within me, particularly due to two articles that put Jesus Christ on the same level as any other “saviour”—Two Kinds Of Knowledge—or with Mohammad—Journey To The Centre Of Our Faiths. I don’t get it? I don’t get how anybody who has met Jesus can then say He is not Lord of all Lords, God of all Gods, King of all Kings, Saviour of all saviours.
How can one argue, having met Him, that a) He was a “special theory” cooked up by the Council of Nicea, and b) that all religions have a saviour. No, they don’t! “There is no other name given amongst men whereby we must (can be) saved.” Jesus Christ is God, come to restore the image of God to humanity. No other name. No other Saviour. “In Him, we live and move and have our being.” I don’t get it. I honestly sit here baffled by why these articles exist in this magazine, and exist as though they were common belief.
No Muslim will say that Jesus is equal with Mohammad. Budhists don’t believe in any God and Hindus have three scary spirits from which they have no saviour, no forgiveness and no hope. I am concerned that when Jesus is reduced to a religious icon, and Christianity to a religion among religions, that not only do we miss the whole point of God’s heart for this world, but we miss the opportunity to reach our neighbours here and around with the love of God, revealed in and through Jesus Christ.
What hope do we offer anyone if not in the Person of Jesus Christ, who lives and rescues and alone makes right anyone who will put his or her trust in Him? What hope exists outside of His sacrifice and resurrection? He is in no other league with anyone else.
