I should have been glad to follow the right road, to follow our Savior himself, but still I could not make up my mind to venture along the narrow path. – Augustine, Confessions, 8.1

Some say that the Christian faith is terribly narrow. After all, how can one really believe that Jesus is the only way to the forgiveness of sins and eternal life? The fact is, reality itself is extremely narrow. There is only one solution to a math equation. There is only one road that gets you to your destination (other roads take you elsewhere). All logic rests on the one law of noncontradiction. There is only one set of parents that created you. A body can only be in one place at a time. You can only live one moment at a time. Existentially, you will die in only one place. All contingent beings are explained by the one law of causality.

The universe is guided by carefully defined limitations. Life itself can only exist within very narrow parameters. According to the big bang hypothesis, which maybe happened 15 – 18 billion years ago, scientists claim that if the explosion had been a trillionth of a degree too hot or too cold the carbon molecule which is the basis of all human life could never have been developed. The hemoglobin molecule, which is necessary for all warm-blooded animals, would not have been produced. Science itself rests on absolute laws such as the principle of predictive uniformity. Just think about aviation. Try flying an aircraft without strict standards and adherence to absolute scientific values. Gravity is one hundred percent effective. Why should it be odd, then, to think that Jesus is the only way to salvation?

[This post is influenced by a lecture I once heard by philosopher Peter Kreeft. For more, click here: http://peterkreeft.com/]