Jesus is the Only
Way
To say that there is only
one way to get to heaven is
pretty narrow
minded,
don't you think?
Yes,
it is a
narrow
viewpoint, but that is exactly what
Jesus taught. He taught that there is only one way,
the narrow way. There will only be a
few who find
their way to eternal life.
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Matthew 7:14
Because
strait is the gate, and
narrow
is the
way,
which leadeth unto life, and
few there be that find
it.
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Who
is Jesus?
Colossians 2: 9 For in
him
dwelleth
all
the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.
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You don't have to rely on your emotions to believe in Jesus
either. There is allot of evidence. There is historic
evidence, prophetic evidence, and now there is mathmetical
evidence with discovery of the bible code. If you have not
investigated these things, I would encourage you to do some
searching for yourself. For the purposes of this study, I
will keep it short. I will work on the assumption that you
already believe the basics. The purpose here is to emphasize
that not all religions are
created equal. The religion of Jesus Christ teaches
that there is only one way to achieve
eternal life... and that is
through Him.
Not Buddha, not Mohammed, not New Age Religion, not by being
a "good" person, not anything, not any way but
Him!
My friend, George Dow wrote the following lesson.
I have included parts of it here.
JUST
WHO
DOES THIS
JESUS
FELLOW
THINK HE IS ANYWAY?
By George Dow
JOHN 14:6 JESUS SAITH
UNTO HIM, "I
AM THE WAY,
THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE:
NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY
ME."
That is a very definitive statement. It was not meant to
be misunderstood. Despite what the world message, that all
religions are alike, and who wants the world interpreting
the Bible anyway, Christianity stands alone as unique.
We see here, that Jesus was speaking to the Apostle
Thomas about himself. He gave a good three point sermon,
with an easily understood and definite conclusion. The fact
is that most of the world hates Christ and his followers
because of this statement. So what was he really saying?
I AM THE
WAY.
First Jesus said, I am the way.
The way to what or where? In the early days of the Church,
the followers of Christ became known as the people of the
way. This referred to the fact that they preached that
they alone had the way of salvation. They obviously got that
idea from this statement. Jesus said that he was THE
way.
This is exemplified by Jacobs dream of the ladder to
heaven. This dream showed a ladder reaching to heaven and
that it was the route to the abode of God. Jesus says here
that he is that ladder to heaven. He is not only THE way. He
is THE ONLY way. Why?
Because no one else has ever made
such a statement. Therefore, if he alone made such a
statement and backed it up with the power he exercised, then
we may assume that he is the one and only WAY.
I AM THE
TRUTH.
Truth is considered a relative term today. But is it? By
relative term we mean that what seems to be true to you may
not be necessarily true to me. I may believe that Jesus is
the way, while someone else believes that Buddah is simply
another path. So who's to say? The answer to that is, YOU.
You are to say which religion is the true one. And I am not
talking relativism either. What I mean is that you have a
God given brain. Before you subscribe to a religion you
should check it out thoroughly. That means that you don't
take even the preacher's word on the subject.
A perfect example of this is Lew Wallace. He was a high
ranking member of an American
atheist group.
He set out to disprove the Bible
once and for all. His own
research converted
him to Christianity. He went
into it with no presuppositions about Christ or the Bible.
He trusted no one, questioned everything, and used his God
given intelligence to find the evidence, sift it, and reach
his own rational conclusions. He wrote Ben Hur after
becoming a Christian to show the Jewish roots of
Christianity....
I AM THE
LIFE.
Thirdly he said I am the life. We take it to mean that he
is the source of life. There would be
no life, if there were no Jesus. The same John that recorded
the statement we are looking at, also wrote in his first
epistle I John 1: 1-3 that he and the others had discovered
the very source of life itself. That
source was, of course, Jesus Christ. ...
He says that he is the only way to
God. He backs it
up by doing things that we would
expect God to do...
And finally,
NO
ONE COMES TO THE
FATHER BUT BY
ME!
"I am
Alpha
and
Omega,
the beginning and the end,
the first and the last."
...Jesus

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