Christ Defense

Challenge:  How is Christianity the only True religion when there are so many religions in the world?

Defense:  Not all religions conflict with Christianity, and, in this sense, other religions have elements of truth in common with Christianity. However, the Bible teaches that salvation is found only through Jesus Christ, the Son of God who came into the world to bear our sins.  Christians are called to fight the "good fight of faith" and to "take hold" of eternal life which requires following the teachings of the Bible. 

John 14:1  "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
John 14:2  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
John 14:4  You know the way to the place where I am going."
John 14:5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
John 14:6  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:6 who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time.
1 Timothy 2:7 And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Galations 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
Galations 1:7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galations 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
Galations 1:9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Galations 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galations 1:11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up.
Galations 1:12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
Galations 1:13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
Galations 1:14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Galations 1:15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
Galations 1:16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,
Galations 1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
Galations 1:18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.
Galations 1:19 I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord's brother.
Galations 1:20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.
Galations 1:21 Later I went to Syria and Cilicia.
Galations 1:22 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Galations 1:23 They only heard the report: "The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
Galations 1:24 And they praised God because of me.

Philippians 2:1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
Philippians 2:2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Philippians 2:4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Philippians 2:6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
Philippians 2:7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Philippians 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.