There are some absolutes

John 14:6 NLT

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

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We live in a world of many uncertainties and less and less it seems we can express confidence in authorities. People want to say all roads lead to Rome. You find your way to happiness and let others find theirs. Multifaith ideology wants us to embrace the logical impossibility that it doesn't matter if you are Buddhist, Catholic, Mormon, or Spiritualist as long as you are sincere and a "good" person then you'll be Okay. You can be an agnostic, atheist, fundamentalist, humanist, pagan and you'll be reincarnated to a pleasant well remembered part of the great God of the evolved native American pan-spirit in the sky. And if you don't have it figured out and actually you're a rather unpleasant person who nobody wants to be around well at least you invigorated good conversation among those you disappointed, hurt, ignored, steamrollered over or harassed so you'll be okay too. You can be selfish, lecherous, unkind and completely disingenuous and you'll probably at least be better off after you kick the bucket.

Jesus didn't teach vague noncommittal generalities or nicities.

Jesus said, he was the only way.

Full stop. Period! Unquestionably there was a God. Jesus was claiming to be one with God the Father and thus in fact God's Son. And he said unequivocally that to make it with the one and only almighty God you had to go by way of Him, Jesus and no other way at all.

Jesus claimed this as a exclusive absolute. And so all other ways we're not going to get you to God. You'd not pass go. You'd not collect £200!

In effect and in context the Bible says Jesus is the only way. There were no other ways. All other claims to be the way were in fact wrong and false.

So if in fact this is what Jesus said (I believe very much this is what Jesus and the whole Bible does in fact teach.) then you and everyone else needs to respond to what Jesus said.

Was he crazy? Deluded? Well intentioned but wrong? Self obsessed?

Was Jesus a liar? Was he aware of what he was saying and embellishing? Was it a wilful untruth? Was Jesus deceiving people and misleading them?

Did Jesus know what he was talking about? Was he telling the truth? Is it an accurate account of an exclusive way to the one and only eternal God?

If Jesus is the only way, what way are you going?