The questioner is concerned with being broadminded and tolerant.  He implies first, that God is rather arbitrary if He insists on one way to Himself, and, second, that you are being dogmatic and bigoted in your beliefs.  Today's thinking emphasizes that:

  -Uncertainty and agnosticism are more valuable than conviction and commitment.

-Man can make his own way to God if he is sufficiently sincere and determined.  Every man should

 find his own way to God; it is good that one man's way is different from another's.

INITIAL CHALLENGE

"I am interested that you should say that because it shows you have been thinking about these things.  In what way would you say they all lead to God?"  Wait for his answer which will probably point to the common emphasis on sincerity and moral conduct.  "I myself would like to think that there are many ways to God.  But the facts of the matter compel me to believe that the Christian way is different from all the rest."

 THE BIBLICAL ATTITUDE

All religions agree that mankind is in a mess.  The Bible puts it this way: Rom. 3: 23, Is. 53: 6. Each religion sets out its own way of rescuing us from this desperate situation.  Let us think of the problem as that of a man who has fallen down a deep well.  The question is how to get him out.

First comes Mohammed who looks over the top of the well and says; "if you will only keep the five rules of Islam then you will be able to escape from the well.  You must pray five times a day, eat no pork, drink no alcohol, keep the feast of Ramadan and make the pilgrimage to Mecca".  But a man has only his own strength to keep these commandments, so after a few steps up he falls back again and cries out for help.

Then comes Buddha who looks over the top of the well and says: "I can see You are in a mess; the problem is due to pain and desire. If  you follow the noble eightfold path you will escape from these ultimately into Nirvana."  But man is still down the well.       The Christian God comes to the top of the well and looks down and says:  "I can see that you are in a mess; you will never get out by means of your own resources.  As I said through one of my prophets:     "Can the leopard change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin?  No more can do good who are accustomed to do evil." Jeremiah 13: 23. "I will have to let down a rope and come down into the well myself in order to rescue you.  I will hold you firmly because you do not even have the strength to hold on to me yourself."

Only Christianity speaks about God becoming man to rescue man.  John 1: 14: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."  Other religions say that we must work hard to deliver ourselves.  They are all effort; Christianity is all grace.  Only Christianity says that the King of the Universe came into this world, became a man and died horribly to atone for the guilt of his rebel subjects.  Such a thought is not even found in the area of fiction and romance.

 Other religions are man's best effort to reach God, Christianity is God's supreme effort to reach man.

 TURNING THE TABLES

 "Let us turn to the Four Spiritual Laws and look at Law Two, This shows very clearly the predicament of every man before God.  Then Law Three sets out God's answer.  You will see that the diagrams really make this clear." Continue through into Law Four and the personal application.