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Michael Spencer gives good insight on the belief that all religions are the same in his latest Coffee Cup Apologetics podcast:

There is in fact a great equality of religion. If we’re talking about religion as a system, as a set of teachings, if we’re talking about religion in the sense of the externals, the rituals, the history and so forth, then I think we can confidently say that all religions are equal. Because none of them can connect us to God. None of them provide a relationship to God. None of them can account for – and I’ll speak as a Christian – those things that are essential for relationship with God.

(Click here to listen to the entire podcast.)

How many times do we as believers find ourselves “performing” for God? We try to do better and not sin in an effort to make ourselves more pleasing to God. The fact is that while we do need to live a life of continually becoming more like Christ, we cannot do anything to make ourselves right before God, because “all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment” (Isaiah 64:6) It is only the justification we receive through the blood of Christ that makes us right before God.