In Jesus’s day many people thought there were many gods, and they would pray to these different gods for the different problems they faced. If they needed water, they prayed to the god of rain; victory in battle, the god of war; someone to marry, the goddess of love. That might sound crazy, but people today think crazy things too. They think if they have enough money, they will be secure. They think if they find someone to marry, they will be completely happy. And they think that if they are basically good, they will go to heaven (whether they believe in Jesus or not). That is wrong. What is right is what Jesus and Peter taught. The night before the Snake Crusher went to the cross to crush sin and Satan, he said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). What he meant by that is what Peter preached: that the only way to be saved is to trust in Jesus. So, when people say there are many ways to God, we are to say, “No way! There is only one way!” And when people say, “I will go to heaven because I’m a good person,” we should say, “Only Jesus is perfectly good. We must believe in him and his perfect goodness alone.”