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Revision as of 09:12, 9 September 2007
Synopsis: Religious pluralism is the teaching that there are many ways to God or that a person of another religion can also be saved. Many nominal Christians today hold pluralistic views.
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Problems with pluralism (G.G.)
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Religious pluralism is the teaching that there are many ways to God or that a person of another religion can also be saved. Many nominal Christians today hold pluralistic views. Jesus said that he was the only way to God the Father in John 14:6.
History of religious pluralism
Christianity teaches that mankind's nature is corrupted and damaged causing us to have separated ourselves from God. Jesus was God made flesh in a literal manner, and he suffered, died, and rose again so that the divine punishment intended for those who did not have a relationship with God would instead fall upon Jesus himself, and that by accepting that Jesus is Lord and repenting of sin, a person can have a meaningful relationship with God and avoid damnation, and be given gift of eternal life in Heaven.
Christians have traditionally argued that religious pluralism is an invalid or self-contradictory concept. Maximal forms of religious pluralism claim that all religions are equally true, or that one religion can be true for some and another for others. This Christians hold to be logically impossible. (Most Jews and Muslims similarly reject this maximal form of pluralism.) Christianity insists it is the fullest and most complete revelation of God to Man. If Christianity is true, then other religions cannot be equally true, although they may contain lesser revelations of God that are true. So the pluralist must either distort Christianity to make it pluralistic, or reject it and acknowledge that one cannot be a complete pluralist.
Religous pluralism today
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