Humility?

Another word that gets misused in the religious dialogue of our day is "humility." It suffers the same fate as tolerance in many ways. I recently saw it used as a way of describing Christians willingness to accept that there may be other ways of salvation.

The humility of Jesus (God) is the greatest in the world. God becoming incarnate to His creation and suffering and dying, becoming sin for us, is the greatest act of humility imaginable. Why would He bother if there were other ways, most of them built on the foundation of self-righteousness and self-justification, just as good? When you go down that road, you have denied all of Christianity, beginning with the greatness of God, and begun to accept multiple gods which is actually the road to no god at all.

When Jesus talked about ways to reconciliation with the Father and eternal life, he spoke of one way and that it was the narrow way. It isn't just His statement of John 14.6 (I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by me.") that is at issue here though that is particularly clear. It is the entirety of His message that must be dealt with. It isn't humble to throw that out in favor of pluralism, in fact it is the opposite of humility, it is arrogance.