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Tim Keller sermons via Gospel in Life: Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do. Download or gift the sermon on MP3 for free: http://www.gospelinlife.com/exclusivity-how-can-there-be-just-one-true-religion-5575.html View the series: http://www.gospelinlife.com/the-trouble-with-christianity-why-it-s-so-hard-to-believe-it.html This sermon was preached by Rev. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 24, 2006.
Well, yes, it does, especially christianity.
Matthew
1. "He that is not with me is against me." 12:30
2. Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen 19:24). 10:14-15
3. "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." 10:33
4. jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and they "shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." 13:41-42, 50
5. Jesus tells us what he has planned for those that he dislikes. They will be cast into an "everlasting fire."25:41
6. Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. 6:11
7. John the Baptist says that Christ will burn the damned "with fire unquenchable." 3:17
Book of John:
1. The "wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. 3:36
2. John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says that the Jews persecuted Jesus and "sought to slay him." 5:16, 18
3. If you don't believe in Jesus, you will "die in your sins" (and then go to hell). 8:24
4. Jesus is the only way to heaven. All other religions lead to hell. 14:6
5. Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be burned. 15:6
2 Corinthians 6:14: Paul requires that his followers separate from "unbelievers:" "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"
Mark 6:11 - King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? The person who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Revelations 3:9
Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.
You must kill those who worship another god. Exodus 22:20
Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own. Deuteronomy 13:6-10
Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. Deuteronomy 13:12-16
Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. Deuteronomy 17:2-7
Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. Deuteronomy 17:12-13
Kill any false prophets. Deuteronomy 18:20
Jude reminds us that God destroys those who don’t believe in him. Jude 5
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)