My talk from Reading University Christian Union events week, 5 February 2015.

1. Is Christianity
the only way?
#arrogant
© Stefano Corso

2. ‘‘A right-wing extremist . . .
• believes that there are inferior
races
• believes that there are inferior
religions
Joe Klein

3. ‘All religions
are basically
the same’

4. © Steven Zucker
are all religious beliefs valid?

5. are all religious practices valid?
© Boyd Dwyer, used under a Creative Commons licence

6. do all religions lead to the same
ultimate reality?

7. do all religions even have the same
view of what reality is?
FATHER
SON
HOLY SPIRIT

8. ‘All religions
see parts of a
bigger truth’

9. how do we know that
there is a bigger truth?
Image from Crestock.com

10. ‘Religions are
culturally
conditioned’

11. does a specific cultural
background mean something
can’t be true?

12. isn’t this criticism a product of
western secular culture?

13. ‘‘. . . if I had been born of Muslim
parents in Morocco rather than
Christian parents in Michigan, my
beliefs would have been quite
different. . . .

14. ‘‘[But] the same goes for the
pluralist. . . . If the pluralist had
been born [in Morocco] he
probably wouldn’t be a pluralist.
Does it follow that . . . his pluralist
beliefs are produced in him by an
unreliable belief-producing
process?
Alvin Plantinga

15. The problem of
religion

16. religion leads to legalism

17. religion can lead to arrogance

18. all beliefs are exclusive

19. which set of exclusive
beliefs is most inclusive?

20. Jesus is the
answer
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21. why did Jesus have to die?
Image from CreationSwap.com

22. God is more holy
than we can imagine

23. we are more sinful
than we like to think

24. ‘‘“I am the way and the truth and
the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.”
John 14:6

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