It's Jesus who said, I am the door through which men must enter.

If he says he is the only way to God and is not the only way to God, then I doubt very much if he's even one way to God.

I was a second semester freshman at the time and I had become a Christian the first

semester of my freshman year and I did not a Christian

the first semester of my freshman year,

and I did not keep my Christian commitment a secret on the campus.

And there were some faculty members at the college

where I attended that were very hostile towards Christianity.

And the person who at least manifest the greatest amount of hostility of all the faculty happened

to be the professor of this English literature course I was taking.

The teacher was a woman. She had distinguished herself as a journalist and as a war correspondent during

World War II prior to taking on the task of collegiate teaching.

I think out of her background in the war effort, she was kind of a hardened person and she had a very great ability to intimidate students.

In the middle of a class one day, she called on me and she said in front of

the whole class, Mr Sprawl, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

I thought, of all the questions to be asked in front of the whole class,

she had to ask me that one. I went through a very severe

moral crisis at that point because I knew if I answered what I believed that that

would be very unpopular.

If I knew also that if I denied what I believed,

I would be guilty of committing treason to Christ.

And so very weakly and very meekly, I said to her,

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