We're about to celebrate Christmas amidst of many challenges.

Just about every area of life, we're being challenged economically, socially, and we are being challenged also spiritually.

Those of us who claim to know Christ as our Savior and Lord, those who love

him with all of our hearts as Christians, and that's a very weighty word, probably one of the

greatest challenges is the report that was released by the Pew Research Foundation

that says that 54% of all Christians in America

believe that there are many religions that lead to eternal life.

If you break down those numbers,

75% of those in the mainline denominations

are saying that other religions lead to eternal life. 85% of non-Hispanic Catholics say that

other religions lead to eternal life.

34% of so-called evangelicals believe that other religions can lead to eternal life.

And I want to show you what an oxymoron or schizophrenia this is, because when you call yourself

an evangelicals, you are saying that you only can be saved through the O'Anglion or the Evangelion or the

evangel or the gospel of Jesus Christ. And yet they say, 34% of them say other religions

can lead to eternal life. On the one hand, we say, yes, we only can

be saved through the forgiveness of the Lord Jesus Christ from our sins and the punishment of

sins and the consequences of sin. And yet, they confused about that very fact that they proclaim.

I want to show you that the sad statistics that I have just shared with you

are due to either absolute utter ignorance of the facts

or a deliberate denial and distortion of the fact.

In either case, it's not a very pretty picture.

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