The ‘tacit atheism’ of our age believes that there is no revelation from heaven, no word from Almighty God and all religions are therefore just matters of opinion, equally valid.
Many faiths and sects abound today. In Athens Paul found all kinds of ‘gods’ worshipped in the city. In that sense, since early times the world has been ‘pluralist’, with many rather than just one faith.
But now, under the pressures of philosophical relativism and political correctness, we see a change from this ‘descriptive pluralism’ to ‘prescriptive pluralism’. Every faith must accept every other faith as valid. No single religion has the right to call itself the truth and claim to be the only way of salvation. This is an affront to other people’s beliefs. The public questioning of certain faiths should be criminalised and Christian evangelism classified as a hate crime. This is a great threat to Bible churches, who proclaim John 14.6, ‘Jesus said: "I am the Way ... No one comes to the Father, except through me"’.
