“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
Several years after I left Divine Mother and became a Christian, I finally had the opportunity to answer a question that had lingered in my mind ever since I left her movement. During one of our sessions, after I challenged her to explain several passages from the Bible through the lens of her universalistic teaching, she suddenly closed her eyes and declared, “My son is a Catholic priest… and he knows who I am.”
At the time, her statement was strangely reassuring. If even a Catholic priest accepted his own mother’s teachings, perhaps I simply didn’t understand Christianity as well as I thought I did. But after I came to faith in Jesus Christ, her words became deeply puzzling. If what she said was true—and I had no reason to doubt that she believed it—how could a man who had devoted his life to serving Christ also embrace teachings that seemed to contradict His words?
Had I misunderstood Christianity? Was my understanding of God still too narrow? Years later, I finally had the opportunity to ask him myself. By then, I had come to believe that Jesus Christ was the only way to the Father and that the Bible was God’s complete and authoritative Word. Yet I still wanted to hear how he reconciled his mother’s teachings with the words of Jesus.
I asked him directly, “How do you reconcile your mother’s teaching with what Jesus said:
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 (ESV)
He answered without hesitation, “There are many truths. She is teaching one of them.”
His response immediately answered the question that had lingered in my mind for years. If Jesus spoke the truth, then there could not be many conflicting truths about God. Truth does not contradict itself. Either Jesus is the only way to the Father, or He is not.
As I continued studying the Scriptures, I became increasingly aware that this was not an isolated encounter. Over the years, I have met many sincere and religious people who profess to follow Jesus Christ while teaching ideas that quietly contradict His words. Sometimes His miracles are explained away as legends or exaggerations. Sometimes His resurrection is reduced to symbolism. Other times, the authority of Scripture is mixed with philosophies and beliefs that ultimately replace the gospel itself.
On the surface, the language often sounds familiar. Jesus is mentioned. The Bible is quoted. God is spoken of with reverence. But when those teachings are examined in the light of Scripture, they tell a different story. One of the most important lessons God taught me during my search for truth was not to judge a message by the sincerity of the speaker, by religious titles, or by outward appearances. Every teaching—even one that sounds spiritual—must be tested against the Word of God. That lesson has stayed with me throughout my Christian life.
Jesus Himself warned that false teachers would come, not always looking like enemies of the faith, but often appearing convincing enough to deceive many.
There is only one Truth because there is only one God.
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 24:24 (ESV)
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