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🗓️ 2 January 2026
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How can Christians express conviction about Jesus’ exclusive claims without seeming arrogant and intolerant? Discover how our conversations should be marked by authenticity, humility, integrity, and sensitivity. That’s on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Enjoy In John's Gospel, Jesus proclaimed, I am the way, the truth and the life. |
| 0:29.4 | No one comes to the Father except through me. |
| 0:32.3 | So how can we as Christians be clear about our convictions without coming off as arrogant or intolerant. |
| 0:40.3 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbeg explains how our conversations should be marked by |
| 0:45.5 | authenticity, humility, integrity, and sensitivity. |
| 0:51.4 | Let's open our Bibles to Isaiah chapter 46. |
| 1:01.0 | Philosophical pluralism suggests that all religions, by their expressions, are simply mediating. They're simply mediating reality, a reality which is |
| 1:16.4 | beyond whatever expression Hinduism may give or Buddhism may give or Christianity may give, |
| 1:23.1 | so that if you get beyond the way in which they mediate that notion, then you will find a |
| 1:29.0 | reality which lies behind the reality because they possess no reality in themselves. |
| 1:36.2 | They simply mediate a reality which you can find, if you're like, in a black hole somewhere. |
| 1:42.6 | John Dixon in his books is very helpful on this, and observing on that, |
| 1:47.0 | he says, by describing religions as true in a manner none of them has affirmed before, |
| 1:55.4 | that the truth is not in the specifics of Hinduism, of Buddhism, or of Christianity, or of Judaism. |
| 2:03.4 | The truth is not in the specifics. The truth is in what these specifics mediate it is behind. |
| 2:09.5 | Says Dixon, by describing religions as true in a man or none of them have affirmed before, |
| 2:14.1 | and false in all the ways they have always affirmed, pluralism assumes an intellectual |
| 2:21.4 | high ground that far exceeds any of the claims of world religion. But we need to understand |
| 2:29.5 | something of this, and then be able to approach it. I want to mention just briefly three factors |
| 2:36.9 | in seeking to establish contact. First of all, what I refer to as the arrogance factor, |
| 2:44.1 | the arrogance factor. In a context, which we consider this morning, where there is no truth, |
| 2:50.8 | only truths, where there is no truth, only truths, where |
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