Do All Religions Lead to God?


No—religion does not lead to God; God leads people through revelation. The Bible does not present a map of human ascent but a story of divine descent—God coming to us. Every sincere religion reflects a longing for God, but only revelation gives the way to Him. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

That “Way” is not a slogan of exclusion but the living Derekh Eretz—the primordial “way of the land” that existed before Sinai or even the covenant with Noah. It is the moral fabric of creation itself: the order of justice, mercy, and truth woven into the world from the beginning. Psalm 87 calls it the Sha’ar, the Gate through which the nations enter Zion. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reawakened that ancient Way, giving voice to the same virtues that Jewish tradition would later describe in the Noahide laws—honoring the Creator, preserving life, doing justice, and walking humbly with God. 

So while not all religions lead to God, God can use every path of seeking to lead people to Himself. Religion without revelation remains humanity reaching upward; faith in the Messiah is God reaching down in mercy. The Way is not a system—it is a Person, the living Torah, in whom the original order of creation and the fullness of covenant meet.