to one faith instead of many: “One body there is, and one spirit, even as you were called in the one hope to which you were called; one Lord, ONE FAITH, one baptism; one God and Father of all persons, who is over all and through all and in all.” The way to life is a narrow road with room for but one faith, not a broad highway with many lanes for travel by many faiths of diverse views: “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.”—Eph. 4:4-6; Matt. 7:13, 14, NW.

11. What several scriptures rule out any divine approval for many faiths with conflicting doctrines?

¹¹ True Christians have one mental attitude and speak as with one mouth: “Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant you to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Does this not rule out many faiths with conflicting attitudes and expressions? Christ’s mind was not divided, his tongue did not utter contradicting words, nor is his one true church splintered with divisions: “Now I exhort you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. Does the Christ exist divided?” Christians are told to avoid “those who create divisions” and to reject “a man that promotes a sect.” (Rom. 15:5, 6; 1 Cor. 1:10, 13; Rom. 16:17; Titus 3:10, NW) The many faiths of today came from those who created divisions and promoted sects, except the one that has held true to the early Christian teaching in the Bible. Now will Jehovah associate with the divisions he told Christians to avoid, or accept the sects he commanded Christians to reject? He is not so inconsistent! He does not change. He still holds to the one true faith established by his Son Christ Jesus and to its set of doctrines expounded in his Word, the Bible. How to identify that true faith from among the hundreds existing today is the undertaking of the article starting on the next page.

Those Who Hear Teach Others

An outstanding characteristic of true Christianity, yet one that is very frequently missing in modern-day religions, is that those who learn will themselves go out and teach others. This was especially evident at the district assemblies of Jehovah’s witnesses held world-wide last year. In Korea many speakers who could competently edify their brothers had never even been before microphones before. In Indonesia the missionaries in attendance reported being heartened at seeing so many of the local brothers able to deliver the assembly speeches and giving good, mature counsel. And in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, when an African brother gave the baptism discourse in Cishona another translated it into Cinyanja, and a third rendered it into English for the benefit of the European brothers present. Not the missionaries, but the African brothers themselves handled such duties. Thus, in following the principle of early Christianity, the truths are committed “to faithful men” who, in turn, become “adequately qualified to teach others,” and are zealous in doing so.—2 Tim. 2:2, NW.