College students have an innate sense of fairness.  They may not always practice it, but they usually have it lurking around somewhere.  And so they often ask ministers questions like, “Why should Christianity claim to be the one true religion?  What is God going to do with all those millions of people who are not Christians, and who never heard of Jesus Christ?  Aren’t they as sincere as we are?  Aren’t all religions, after all, basically alike?”

Those questions usually arise after they have had their first course in Comparative Religion.  And, when they ask such questions, they are in good company.  Some years ago, the renowned historian Arnold Toynbee wrote a little book titled “Christianity Among the Religions of the World” in which he called upon Christians to expunge Christianity of…