For Reflection/Discussion: What are your thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsche's statement, "There are no facts, only interpretations"? The story of the Blind Men and the Elephant is often used to argue that religions limited in their perspectives. Do you see any fallacies or self-contradictions in the story and the conclusions that are drawn from it? How do we know anything whatsoever about God? What can we know about God apart from Jesus? What does Jesus' life, death, and resurrection have to teach us about God?

“If you’re a Christian you don’t have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you’re an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you’re a Christian, you’re free to think that all those religions, even the oddest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. When I was an atheist I had to try to persuade myself that most of the human race have always been wrong about the question that mattered to them most; when I became a Christian I was able to take a more liberal view. But, of course, being a Christian does mean thinking that where Christianity differs from other religions, Christianity is right and they are wrong. As in arithmetic, there is only one right answer to a sum… but some of the wrong answers are much nearer being right than others.” —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

For Reflection/Discussion: Jesus is the path from where we are apart from God to the new life we have in God. What is life like when we try to live apart from God? What does the Bible mean when it says that we are dead in our trespasses? How can we know that we have passed from death to life?

For Reflection/Discussion: What are your thoughts on Jesus' statement that "No one comes to the Father except through me"? Does this imply that other religions are totally wrong? That Christians are always right? Is Jesus' statement exclusive and narrow? Inclusive and expansive? Both? Neither? To whom is the way of life offered us in Jesus open?