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***It mostly feels like a sell out to me though, to think one way is the only way***

A hundred years ago, an average American - someone quite similar to you perhaps - couldn't have imagined uttering those words.

That was before the multi-generation reeducation campaign began with the purpose of convincing the masses of the equality of all religions and ideas. (With the reality being that if all ideas are equal then, in the final analysis, none are objectively true).

Follow this logic.

I doubt you believe ALL "ways" to God are equally acceptable to Him. For example, I doubt you believe that God requires, or is pleased with a person who would throw their infant into a river to be eaten by crocodiles.

I doubt you believe that Satanism is a valid way to God.

I doubt you believe that fanatical, suicidal fundamentalist Islam is a valid way to God.

So we are narrowing down the count here.

There are not an "infinite" number of ways to God. Some "ways" are clearly wrong. If the ways to God are not infinite in number then there are a limited number of ways

Let's say there were 10 valid ways to God (i.e. 10 major world religions). Would that be OK? Or would that evoke a knee-jerk negative response? (No offense to you, but we have all been conditioned to be offended at the idea of "exclusivity" in any shape or form).

If we have already concluded that there must be a limited number of ways, then logically there is nothing wrong with limiting that way to 8, or to 5 or to 2 or even to 1. Especially if that one way is open and available to people of any class, race, intellect, age etc. as Christianity is.

But in the end we must come face to face with the words of Jesus when he said...

"Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6

**Let's say there were 10 valid ways to God...**

Let's say we have no way of telling...expect through written
translated stories of the human condition, said to be written
by this person or that, at this time or that. Pertinent and applicable
behavioral patterns applied to societies over time.

There is more than one way to a persons "eternal peace."
Although...I know, I know, the bible says otherwise.