How do we know that Christianity is the only true religion? This question is at the heart of Greg and RD's podcast this week.

Christianity is the only true religion, Greg explains, because it's the only religion where God has instituted a code of rules (the law) which God Himself has lived out perfectly, and then He suffered the punishment for everyone who hasn't lived them out perfectly. Throughout the whole Bible, God is showing us the magnitude of His perfection, but also the magnitude of His mercy and grace. But, He cannot do this without being exclusive. Exclusive in the context of the Gospel is not a negative thing; it is God being a just and righteous God and demanding a sacrifice for our sins, but also showing tremendous mercy by allowing us to come to Him through Jesus.

Exclusivity in the Bible is not something that starts in the New Testament with the passage in John where Jesus says He is the only way to God; it actually starts in Genesis 3 when God tells Adam and Eve that they must leave the Garden. Throughout these passages, and really all of Scripture, our tendency can be to think that God should be striving to make everyone happy, but in reality, it's not about our happiness, it's about God putting His glory on display. As RD discusses, we can't put people first before God because the most important part of Christianity is God, not people.

Both RD and Greg bring up that one of the biggest questions they get about exclusivity is how is it fair when someone who's never heard the Gospel dies and goes to hell? Greg tackles this question by explaining that when we say fair, we mean just. Salvation is never about justice, it's about grace and mercy. If God was fair then everyone would be going to hell because of their sin. Paul talks about this in Romans 2, and RD references Tim Keller's comments on it, as well.

RD shares that even if this is a hard subject for us to grasp or come to terms with, that is okay because there need to be some things about God that we don't understand - that shows how He is an all-knowing God and we are not.

As a final way to show how Christianity is the only true religion, RD explains how most religions say "Here's how to find God," but Christianity says "here's how God finds us."