If and when a Jew, a Hindu, pagan, or atheist is saved, it is not by Judaism, Hinduism, paganism, or atheism, but by Christ. These are not contradictory. Scripture confirms for us God s deepest desire that all will be saved from sin and death, and when any are saved it is because of Jesus Christ. Christ tells us how God s wide and gracious mercy will be applied in the world. Let me attempt another exercise to explain this idea.
All religions are attempts to understand life from the human perspective.
What if we tried to imagine what it looks like from God s perspective . Stretch your imagination a moment with me. What if there were only one God who created the whole universe, who created all people with an indelible desire to know God and this one God cared deeply for all creatures. What if this God chose to come into the world in a manner that all could understand, so he took on human form. To do this he would necessarily need to come at one time, in one place, to one people.