This is #3 on the google and #21 on the biblegateway.com list and is highlighted in the 'Hands On' Bible.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
SIS
Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Hebrews 10:20
by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
OPQ
What God's Son has told me, take for true I do; truth Himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.
St Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Theologian
HIJ
Here Jesus is making an exclusive claim which is very un pc today. Not tolerant of well meaning people believing other things, either other faiths, or morals and ethics, or rationality from man's perspective. But if what Jesus is saying is true, it is cruel to allow someone to continue in a belief which is wrong, and not only that but will lead to being lost, and an eternity of spiritual death apart from Jesus. Not that we who do believe are anything as we were lost and dying as they were, because of our sin, which is the results of us choosing our way and doing actions which God abhors, but are people who have found their leading, reality and life and its focus, in Jesus who through His death and that atoning sacrifice allows us to draw near to the Father in forgiveness and acceptance, to the point where you can be adopted as sons, with a place in His family home where we have a room set aside.
I will conclude with the words of Paul
1 Timothy 2:3-6
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
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