If you are calling a doctor, is one as good as another? If you are seeking a wife/husband, is one as good as another? If you are buying a prescription, is one as good as another? If you are catching a bus, is one as good as another? If you are buying a house, is one as good as another? If you are in need of a mechanic, is one as good as another? Then kind reader, why be so particular in material things and so careless and broadminded in matters pertaining to religion? How often do we hear, "One faith, one way, one worship, one baptism, one church, etc. is as good as another"?

FAITH

Is one faith as good as another faith? If so, why did Paul teach, "One Lord, ONE FAITH, one baptism." (Eph. 4:5).

Also, a dead faith would be as good as an active one. The Bible speaks of both kinds (James 2:26).

WAY

Is one way as good as another way? If so, why did Jesus say, "I am the way..." (John 14:6). Furthermore, Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Is this way as good as the strait and narrow way that leadeth to life everlasting? (Matt. 7:13-14).

WORSHIP

Is one form of worship as good as another worship? If so, then why did God reject Cain’s worship and accept Abel’s? (Gen.4). Again, why did God send fire from heaven to devoure Nadab and Abihu while in the act of worshipping, if one worship is as good as another? (Lev.10). And, if one worship is as good as another one, then an ignorant worship (Acts 17:23), a vain worship (Matt. 15:9), and a will worship (Col. 2:23) would be as good as one worship (John 4:24).

RELIGION

Is one religion as good as another? If so, why does the book of Acts record thousands of cases of conversions from one religion to another? In fact almost every conversion in this book is a conversion of a religious individual! Why would one make the change if one religion were as good as another? The Bible discusses pure religion, the only kind to have, in James 1:27.

BAPTISM

If one baptism is as good as another, then why were those who had been baptized with John's baptism rebaptized in Acts 19? For our baptism to be valid it must be based on a genuine faith (Mk. 16:16), proceeded by repentance from sin (Acts 2:38), and administered upon a proper confession (Acts 8:36-38).

CHURCH

Is one church as good as another? If so, then those built and established by men (Matt. 15:13; Ps. 127:1) would be as good as the one established by the Lord (Matt. 16:18) Yet, Matt. 15:13 tells us that every plant the Father hath not planted shall be rooted up!

DOCTRINE

If one doctrine were as good as another, then why would John have written, "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God"? (2 John 9)

SURELY WE CAN CLEARLY SEE

THAT ONE IS NOT AS GOOD AS ANOTHER!