Salvation only in Jesus?

     If you listen to the popular religious leaders today, there are many ways to get to heaven.  I had a college professor describe religion as being a mountain.  He said that there were many ways to get up the mountain, but every path got you to the top.  He was telling the class that even though there are many religions on earth, they all save you in the end.  It doesn't matter what you believe or who you believe in.  Just follow your path, and you'll be saved.
     Nowadays, many who claim to be Christians and claim to believe the bible is God's inspired word are saying the exact same thing: that one doesn't have to be a Christian to go to heaven.  When one studies the bible, he finds that there is only one way to heaven: through Jesus Christ.  Let's see what the bible has to say on how one can be saved.
     Everyone who claims to be a Christian should listen to what Jesus has to say on any subject.  So, what does Jesus have to say about getting to heaven?  In John 14: 6, Jesus tells his disciples, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."  Jesus says that He is THE way, not A way; He is THE truth, not A truth; and that He is THE life, not A life.  He is not one of many, but is the only.  Many people will probably say I'm making too much out of the use of the word "the" before way, truth, and life, but notice what Jesus says at the end of the verse - "no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."  No one is getting to God, who lives in heaven, except through Jesus.  It is only through Jesus that a person can be saved and get into heaven.
     People who think that there are many ways to be saved, and thus many ways to heaven, are really missing the point of Jesus' death.  Jesus came into the world to die on the cross, so that the world would have salvation (I Thess. 5: 9-10; Acts 4:12).  When Jesus was praying in the garden, He prayed "Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt" (Matthew 26: 39).  The cup, which Jesus is referring to, is His death on the cross.  He is praying that, if there is any other way for salvation to come to the world, then let it come another way.  However, Jesus was willing to die on the cross if that was the only way to save mankind.  Since Jesus did die on the cross, we know that there was no other way to save man.  Salvation is only through Jesus Christ.
     We live in a world where we have options.  If we don't like one way of doing something, there is always another way to go about it.  However, when it comes to salvation, there is only one way, and that is through Jesus Christ.  People may not like it, but that is the truth.  If anyone wants to be saved when Judgment Day comes, he has to go through Christ.  Just like Jesus says in Matthew 7: 13-14, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."  You can go down the path that says that there are multiple ways to heaven and end up in hell, or you can find that narrow path of Jesus that leads to heaven.  The choice is yours.