There is only one

Acts 4:7-13 NLT

They brought in the two disciples and demanded, “By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of our people, are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed? Let me clearly state to all of you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead. For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, ‘The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.’ There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus.

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I don't know about you but I'm plagued by a terrible recurring case of wanderlust. This malady I must confess has led to me temporarily getting lost or at least going well out of my way. Maybe that is why I grew quite fond of the saying, "All roads lead to Rome." Or my favourite misquoting version of the famous phrase,  "All roads lead to Home."
My wife and children have often fallen victim to my propensity to discover a new way or my inclination to drag everyone up one more hill to see an imagined amazing vista.
To others it can be very wearisome to follow an often failed but doggedly optimistic explorer.

Breathe a sigh of relief!

Unlike Rome and home, salvation, according to God's Word, has only one way.

There is no debate. Our guide has been all of the ways and can conclusively report that, to be saved, only one name will work. Jesus alone can save you. You can turn to no other. You will only get lost and terribly disappointed to go any other way. All other roads lead to destruction. All other saviours are false, incapable frauds.

To add to my list of sins, I'm a lazy trekkie. I like Star Trek. But right from the very get go they lie to you and say they are boldly going where no man had gone before. Jesus has been every where. Jesus created it all. Jesus is present in all places. He also suffered all our anguish, evil, aloneness, rejection and torment on the cross and in death. So he had been there.

Call on Jesus name!

Jesus can categorically tell you that there is only one way and it is through faith in his name.

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?