The Bible teaches that there is one God. Exodus 20:3-5 says, "You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” Much of the Old Testament deals with the idolatry of the Israelite people and God’s displeasure with their spiritual adultery. The word of God teaches that their national tragedies were tied to their pursuit of pagan worship practices and obeisance to foreign Gods.

Likewise, the New Testament deals with the paganism and polytheistic practices of people living contemporary with Christ and the Apostles. Sadly, Paul deals with the polytheism practiced by the inhabitants of Athens. He says in Acts Act 17:22-30, “Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.” Given the teachings of the Bible, no honest student of scripture could arrive at the conclusion that God is okay with polytheism.

Enter Pope Francis. The “vicar of Christ” on earth. Just a short time ago, the pope addressed a group of young people in Singapore. His words were patently false and endorsed a form of polytheism. That is, the idea that there are many gods. He said,

One of the things that has impressed me most about the young people here is your capacity for interfaith dialogue. This is very important because if you start arguing, “My religion is more important than yours...,” or “Mine is the true one, yours is not true....,” where does this lead? Somebody answer. [A young person answers, “Destruction”.] That is correct. All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy; they are like different languages that express the divine. But God is for everyone, and therefore, we are all God’s children. “But my God is more important than yours!” Is this true? There is only one God, and religions are like languages, paths to reach God. Some Sikh, some Muslim, some Hindu, some Christian.1

This stands in contradistinction to what scripture teaches about God and how one might obtain eternal life.

Jesus was the only one who could die for your sins. No other person could secure our soul’s salvation. Hebrews 2:9-10 says, “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”

Jesus made it possible for one to have eternal life through His death on the cross. No other person, or alleged god, could do this for us. 1 Peter 2:24 says, “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”

One cannot deny Jesus and hope to have eternal life. That is, one cannot deny His place as God’s Son and our Savior. Matthew 10:32-33 says, "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” It is no coincidence that one must confess Jesus as God Son as a part of conversion (Romans 10:10).

Since Jesus is the author of our salvation (Hebrews 5:8-9), He will be the one who serves as the judge of all Humankind on the last day. 2 Corinthians 5:10 says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

Only Jesus has the words of eternal life. John 6:68-69 says, “But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Regardless of what the pope or any other person might say, there are not “many ways to God.” Speaking in this manner about “god” might make people feel better, but it is not a representation of what God’s word teaches. Many people will be lost following teachings that champion polytheism and fail to teach the primacy of Christ as the only source of our soul’s salvation.

1 https://www.vatican.va/.../20240913-singapore-giovani.html