Do all faiths lead to God?

All roads lead to God was a statement that someone gave me this afternoon. It is quite a common belief, in our modern culture it sounds very untolerant to say that only one faith is true, surely they all have some measure of the truth, God knows what is going on and when it comes to the crunch we will all enter heaven.
On the surface that sounds quite plausable. However, I want you to imagine for a moment that you are standing at the top of a cliff and you say I don't believe in gravity, you jump, unfortunately for you it wouldn't take long before you hit the bottom. The point is, what you believe doesn't change the truth, there is a truth and we need to know what it is otherwise we are soon going to hit the bottom of the cliff. The difference in faiths is huge and they all differ, they all claim different things, they cannot all be true. We each have a view of the world, it is important to know which is truth. How do we know which is true?
When trying to find out the truth we examine the evidence and weigh it up for ourselves. You put all the pieces together and see what you come back with. The beauty about Christianity is it is all based on Jesus, all based on him coming to earth, on him entering history. Therefore we can examine it, he performed miracles, he rose from the dead, he rose others from the dead, he calmed storms, he has been written about over 300 times before he came to earth, he......
Before I became a Christian I looked into some other faiths, however the claims made by other groups were usually made by one person in a cave, in a secret location, just on their own or something similar. One person had said something and was very persuasive. Whereas I found with Christianity that it was a huge event in time that had been spoken about hundereds of years before, where people were willing to die testifying to what they had seen, where a church sprang up like nothing before or since. This surely warrants investigation, please don't make the mistake I did thinking it will be alright in the end, God will be accepting, my fear is that you may be walking to the edge of that cliff withouth preparing for the fall...

Who do you say he is?

One of the questions that Jesus asks his disciples was "Who do you say I am?" it is a question that has run through every generation since. I therefore ask you that question today, who do you say that Jesus is? Often I hear these responses;

-We cannot really know, the bible is simply chinese whispers
-He was a great teacher, a great man and that is it really

I used to think the very same, how can you trust an old book, times have changed, we can never really know what has been said. Can I encourage you to invesigate this, don't make the mistake of simply going along with your own thoughts. The Bible is the most attested book in the whole of antiquity, there are thousands of copies of what was originally written. The translations we have now are taken from the earliest copies we have, not passed down through the generations. What is amazing about the amount of copies we have is rather than one source we have a multitude of sources and therefore we can compare what we have, the accuracy of doing this simply with 100 copies is astounding, we have over 10,000 copies!!!!!!!
The new testament part of the Bible was written during the lifetime of the eye witnesses to the events and we see a huge explosion of Christianity at that moment in history. If this was falsified then people would have spoken out to deny the truth of it, in addition people gave their lives in order to defend what they saw. People often give their lives for a belief but not for a lie, i.e. Jesus appeared after his death. They were willing to die to testify to it. There is so much evidence it is overwhelming and I simply don't have space here to do it justice, but I would encourage to start your investigation.

The second objection is often that Jesus was simply a teacher. If you read the accounts of his life, you simply cannot make this an option. Jesus was put to death for claiming to be God, they had no other accusation against him, he had led a sinless life, his death was his very claim that he was God. CS Lewis a Christian Writer gave us three option for Jesus, either he was a lunatic, he was lying or he is Lord. Really him being a teacher is not in the picture. So, who do you say he is, do you think he was a lunatic? Do you think he was telling lies? Or do you think he was who he said he was?

If Christ is who he said he was then this means we must take action. Jesus said he came to seek and save that which is lost. We have all turned from God, rebelled against him and have a death sentence hanging over our head. He desperately wants to rescue us from that, so much so that he is willing to take our place, to be our substitute. It is not a lifestyle choice, this is a hand being held out as we move closer towards real danger, a life jacket is being offered, what will you do with that offer?