As we consider the subject, Fenced in by Jesus, I’m reminded that a number of years ago, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention aroused a firestorm of protest when he said that no Orthodox Jew could ever enter heaven. Immediately he was stigmatized as a bigot, a racist, anti-Semitic and what not. But, of course, he was right.
For in Acts 4:12 Simon Peter says concerning Jesus, “Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is none other name under heaven given among men…”