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The problem with that argument is that there are many ways to be wrong.

What if the Muslims are right? Then Christians are damned.

What if some small sect is right, like the Jehovah’s Witnesses? Then the rest of us are damned.

At least if the Hindus are right, we get a do-over. And if the Mormons are right, at least we go to heaven even we don’t get to be gods.

The hole in your position is created around a lack of relationship or desire to be with God instead of an intellectual pursuit of the best expression of God. Seek God and you will find him. To speak of God is endless.

That is what diferentiates the religions. Mormanism seeks to be god, hinduism seeks to appease god, islam seeks to please god, jws seek to earn their way, but true christians seek to love God.

Yes there are many flavors of christians leading many ways to camoflage the path. But the real question is what is your motivation? That is how you differentiate the path.

Examine your motivation, is it about you, or is it about Him?

The problem is none of the witnesses are reliable.

Mohammed was an evil guy who would “abrogate” his teachings whenever they became inconvenient for him.

JW’s were an end of the world cult that kept going after the world didn’t end, and they published their own “bible” that was “translated” by people who wouldn’t pass a 1st-year Greek of Hebrew course. They did their best to make it say what they wanted it to say, but they still didn’t purge all of the inconvenient passages.

Mormons allegedly received their scripture from an angel, despite the NT warning about accepting another gospel, even if it came from an angel (Galatians 1). They were delivered on golden disks that can’t be found, translated from “new Egyptian” that doesn’t exist, and in parts copied whole sections from the OT. (It was amazing how Smith’s translation from New Egyptian was an exact match with the KJV.)

Speaking of many way to be wrong, the Hindus have more of them than all others combined. Everything is right, even if it contradicts, and they like it that way and think it’s cool.

The “what if we’re wrong/what if you’re wrong” isn’t a great argument on its own, but given the credibility of the NT witnesses (and we can discuss that if you’d like) it’s certainly something to consider.

“What if the Muslims are right? Then Christians are damned.”

On the other hand - would you want to spend the rest of eternity with a bunch of muslims?

But agreed. It always bothers me when people say “Well you Christians think you are the only ones going to heaven!”

I’m not exactly sure how the whole end of life thing works, but Jesus does say “Nobody enters the Kingdom except through me.” (Do people get one last revelation at death and can say “Geez - I was a muslim searching for God - and now it is finally revealed to me!! Praise God!!” or - they can say “Hey - you’re not Mohammed - leave me alone!”

Regardless, I would imagine most muslims and mormons, etc. believe that THEIR faith is the only way. As it should be.