Tomorrow we continue our 2025 'Strengthened' series with our 7th question... can't all beliefs be true if they're sincere? This question comes in many different forms: 'Don't all roads eventually lead to heaven?' or 'aren't the different religions ultimately just pointing to the same God?' or 'as long as you're sincere and trying to be good, that's all that will matter' ... but although this is a popular idea, is it true?
Often, people are inclined to lump religious beliefs into a category of questions that we can't *really* know the answers to - so normal standards of 'true' and 'false' don't seem to apply. And once we give up on the idea of 'truth' in the realm of beliefs... the door is open to anything and everything. All that's left is personal opinions... and of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
But what did Jesus say about this? As we'll see, Jesus gave us some very clear teachings on religious truth and warnings about religious lies. The Bible invites us to seriously consider its claims on standards of objective truth. How can we, as followers of Jesus Christ, be ready to give good answers to people with questions about Truth and Belief? Jesus is calling us to be ready to give an answer... and then to live out that answer with our lives.