Imagine that your friend is eating a bowl of soup. You are contemplating getting some yourself, but you are not sure it's still hot. You ask your friend if the soup is hot or cold and he responds, "Both". How would you respond to him? You would think he had lost his mind. That is because hot and cold are mutually exclusive. When they come together, they create something new altogether. We call it warm. Soup cannot be both hot and cold. That is absurd. In this situation a rational person would recognize that their friend might be a few fries short of a happy meal. But when it comes to religion suddenly we are willing to put aside all reason, all rationale and just accept anything. I've often heard, "As long as you truly believe that what you believe is true then that is all that matters". I can believe the sky is purple all day long, that doesn't make it so. Moreover, what are we really saying in this? We are saying that what's important is belief in...belief, hope in hope, and faith in faith. We are saying that it matters little, if any at all, what you believe IN as long as you really believe it. But belief alone is impotent. Its power is derived from the truth inherent in the belief, not the belief itself. If I believe a green chair to be red, that is worthless. My belief is only worth something when it is true; when the chair is, indeed, red.
If A is true then the opposite of A cannot be true. For example, believing in multiple ways the Earth was created is common, but fallacious. Some people believe in the big bang theory, some believe in intelligent design, and still others believe in the condensation theory or nebular theory. But no one believes all of them. Nor does anyone believe that they all CAN be true. And yet, with regard to spiritual matters and belief systems, somehow we find it perfectly reasonable to believe that they can all be true simultaneously.
That creates another question. If they can all be true and Christianity claims to be the only way, then can they really all be true? If you say that Buddhism, Hinduism, Pantheism, Wicca, Christianity, and Satanism are all true "if you really believe in them" it does not add up. How can Christianity, which claims to be the only way to God, be true and at the same time other religions be true? Does no one else have a problem with this? Moral Relativism uses an absolute to negate absolutes. It claims "There are no absolutes. All ways to God are valid". "There are no absolutes" is an absolute. "Truth is relative" is also an absolute statement. It implies that truth is absolutely relative. I hope you are seeing that pluralism is nothing more than fairy tales dressed up in robes and tassels. It is imagination masquerading as education. Often when you do not fall for the lies of pluralism you are looked down on as ignorant or uneducated.
Is it judgmental or arrogant to claim that there is only one way? No. Claiming that we know the truth does not prove that we know everything or that we are superior to those who believe in something else. We believe that since we have all sinned (Romans 3:23) and can only come to God through His grace and not of ourselves (Romans 9:16) then we have nothing to boast about. So, is it judgmental? Well, it is making a judgment call or discerning, but it is not judgmental in the way that most people use the word. Is refusing to call a belief false always the right thing to do? What if we did not call racism or Communism or Nazism wrong or false? What if we considered them to be alternative belief systems and lifestyles? Should we allow these false beliefs to propagate or should we denounce them? Tolerance is important in many circumstances, but refusing to call wrong, wrong is...wrong.
John 14:6 "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by me."
2 Timothy 4:3 "For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear."
