2 Timothy 4:1-5

Transcription : Starting a new series tonight and each week for the next few weeks, we’re going to select one of main objections, one of the main problems, one of the main troubles that people in our culture have with Christianity and look at it and tonight the objection, the trouble people have with Christianity we’re going to be looking at can be summed up in one word, it’s the word exclusivity and it’s not a problem that people only have with Christianity but other religions too and the problem is “how can you possibly claim that you religion is the only true religion, that you have the one truth.” This is a matter of enormous concern right now, I mean we’re really at the peak of this. 40 years ago, if you’d ask people what is the main barrier to peace in the world, they probably would have said political ideology because that was the Cold War you know, Communism, Capitalism, even 30 years ago, maybe even 20 years ago but today I think most people would say that the main barrier for...

  Transcription : Each week we’re looking at a, we’re choosing one of the things that trouble folks in our culture and especially in New York City the most about Christianity. So we’re trying to take each week one of the things that people say this is my biggest problem with Christianity or this is my trouble, this is my objection to Christianity and today, tonight we look at one that could be put like this: “Christians believe they have absolute truth” that is “they see that they have some things that everyone should believe and everyone should do. So “Christians believe they have absolute truth.” “But people who have absolute truth,” the objection goes, “undermine freedom.” “First of all, they tend to oppress people who are different than they are and they impose their views on others so they tend to harm other people’s freedom and people who believe they have absolute truth are themselves not really free, here they are under the burden of trying to comply with this set of divine...