Where does Jesus say he is the ONLY way to God?

Question

I have read thru the Gospels in English and Greek and I can not find this mysterious verse in which Jesus says he is the ONLY way.

Only is monoos in Greek and ONE is monos and I can find any examples of Jesus using those words to describe himself.

The closest I can find is one verse in which he says he is the way to God.

Could people please explain why you keep saying Jesus is the only way to God when its not something Jesus actually said?

If you cite any verses they must actually have the word ONLY in English and GREEK! Or Latin or Aramaic for that matter in the unlikley event we have anyone lurking who reads the Latin Vulgate version or the Aramiac Peshitta version of the Bible!

Answer 1

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth and the light. No man comes to the Father, but by me." (King James)



It doesn't say "only" but it certainly carries that meaning. In a Dynamic Equivalence translation, it could quite legitimately be translated as "....only by me may a man come to the Father," and probably is so translated in some versions, although I am disinclined to go searching through all my Bible versions just now.



And by the way, I used read Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Ugaritic (though I haven't used them for many years), and Latin.

Answer 2

I'm always late for these things....



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



You do know of course that Jesus completely identified with the Christ spirit? He made it clear the Kingdom of God is within men and that we are to seek it first by unconditional love and without judgment. At that day when we know that Christ is within us we have the way to the Father inside us. We are one with Christ and the Father then. It's called being "Born again" and is equivalent to enlightenment and the majority of Christians that knew this were killed by the mid fourteenth century. Christ and Buddha take us to the same place but by differing paths. To enlighten faster one should consider which faith you know best and which one you know little if anything about then go practice the one you know least about and consider your experiences. The trouble with knowing a faith by cultural saturation is that we know all the terms and catch phrases so when a problem arises we pull out a convenient truism and toss it at the problem. If we experience without that symbology we live it and we are forced to make the experience our own, with descriptions from our private dream language. Some things can never be told. I said earlier consider colors a moment then explain them so a blind man can understand them. That’s the kind of struggle Jesus and Buddha and others had to get us to understand concepts we are blind to. We put to much sternness on the verbiage.



Anyway find God inside, quit judging become loving and see things you can’t explain so people think you’re weird and stop inviting you to parties. It’s the cool way to be square.



Agape



♥Blessed Be♥

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Answer 3

John 14:6-7

Answer 4

That just shows how unaware most Christians are. I think there is a general misunderstanding amongst religions. CHRIST may have been the only son of God, of which Jesus was a part of and was trying to afford us the same privelage. By the way, the Buddha also shared his story of a prodigal son higher than himself- coincidence, I think not!



Then you can consider Him to have the same effect as the Holy Spirit:



John. 14:37 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, as I have said unto you.

Answer 5

The only way is believing in the Son of God:



John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.



John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but the world through Him might be saved.



John 3:18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.



John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.



John 5:23 that you should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.



John 10:30 I and My Father are one.



John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father EXCEPT through Me.”.



1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus



1 John 2:23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the son has the Father also.



1 John 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abide in him, and he is in God.

Answer 6

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



The way is Only way.



For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16



When Jesus died on the cross, bible says His blood has the capacity to cleanse sins.

..the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:7



I have heard all the above verses in the past, but still I dint know that they were all true. The past 3 years the Lord led me wonderfully and miraculously I was saved. I wanted to seek the Lord just as He said, seek and you will find. Since you want to seek Him earnestly, I will also pray that you find.



Please read here how God changed my life,

http://www.protectinghands.com/ladder_to_heaven.htm

Answer 7

John 14 : 6-7

" Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No ones comes to the father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on you do know him, and have seen him."



He is the only Son of God, meaning he is the only way. You have to piece together OT prophecies, with what Jesus says.

Answer 8

But not as late as me, my friend.



The questioner is absolutely right. Though hard line Christians won't accept it, Christ never claimed that he was the ONLY to God.



But don't listen to me, I'm a Buddhist. Listen to Julian of Norwich, listen to Master Eckhart, listen to St John of the Cross. After a lifetime of the deepest prayer and study, surely their ideas should be respected?

Answer 9

Hmmmm..



Somewhere in some gospel that was printed I'm sure



AND



in John 14:6

Answer 10

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6)

Answer 11

I read my bible in spanish and it's on John 14:6.

Answer 12

You try to question any of the Christian assumptions and you get the holy tirade of idealism shoved down your throat. Christians claim that "Heaven" is eternal, perfect, and permanent. Gosh, that sounds good but is it any more real than fairy land? Is Santa Clause real? I cannot listen to Christian beliefs without being offended completely. They insist that I believe in pure fantasy, mythology and imaginary perfection and insist that I surrender to this fantasy and give all my life and money and everything to it. If I don't I am condemned to hell where I will burn forever in suffering... So what if a man named Jesus might have said that he is the one and only way to the perfect palace in the sky. What better sales pitch is there than that??? You can have heaven or hell. Which is it??? Eternal suffering or eternal bliss??? And there's only one way to the bliss and a perfect great ultimately wonderful awesome amazing stupendous future and that is to be a Christian... The alternative is burning and suffering and endless horror...

When presented in this way, and you actually believe this is the way it really is, what choice is there but to be a Christian? Somewhere every Christian got sold on this idea and there's countless Christian sales people selling more and more people on this thing. And it is loaded and loaded with more and more pitches that try to convince people of the "truth". So, when someone says "Jesus said "I am the way truth and the life, no one comes to the father, but by me"" what can I say? Here is what I have to say to those who relish in the idea of being saved and living forever in the eternal bliss of heaven while the rest of humanity is going to suffer the rest of eternity suffering in hell:

1. As far as I am concerned it is just hearsay. There is absolutely no way of knowing if Jesus actually said that.

2. Even if Jesus actually said it I don't think that it is true. It sounds too much like the ultimate sales pitch of all time and I don't go for it.

3. I don't have any way of knowing if there is a Father, God or a heaven. It may all be imaginary. Human beings have an amazing ability to imagine things. Most people with such far fetched beliefs are labled insane.

4. It sounds pretty metaphoric. The New testament is full of Jesus' parables and metaphors. Maybe he just means that you need to listen to wise people when they talk or you won't know anything.

5. I can really see how this could have been mistranslated and changed through time to help with the Christian leader's conversions. Boy-oh-boy, Christians do like to throw this quote at you again and again and again and again and again to try to convert you.

6. Christianity has a lot of good values but show me one religion that doesn't. They are all meant to lead people to greater good and to God. I don't think that Christians are the only one's to be given a key to heaven. I actually see many fallacies with many Christians. The Mafia is made up of Catholics. There is no reason for me to believe that Christ is the only way to heaven or God (if there is such a place or ultimate higher power).

7. I don't believe in anyone who would let someone kill him to show that he is right. It is pretty insane to insist that you are the way and the truth and the only way to God to the point where people would kill you for it and then you let them kill you after torturing you. I have seen more crazy people that are doing no different following in Jesus' footsteps to force others in this belief... There are those who have even gone to the extent of killing others not to mention all the believers who let their own life end by being marters like Jesus was. People have to be more flexible and stop demanding that they are right...

8. People hear these detrimental words and proclaim anyone who doesn't believe them as a hieratic and a blasphemer. The whole idea of blasphemy because you don't believe what someone says disgusts me. All of the Christian guilt inducing, fear inspiring, hate producing, better than thou thinking, Hippocratic judgementalism, I could go on and on... The separatist society that Christianity has produced by this single line from the New Testament believing that Christians are heaven-bound and everyone else is going to hell is disturbing. Christianity has created a huge rift in humanity. Perhaps as much if not more than Islam. I don't condone this religion which proclaims to be the only way no mater what good it has brought to the world.

9. Don't force me into your beliefs with this idea that it is the only way out of hell into heaven. It stops here with me... I have no intention of propagating this monster of an idealism.

Answer 13

The most famous verse: John 3:16. And I think the words "THE WAY" also suggests it.



Edit: and the verses mentioned by others above as well.

Answer 14

Taken from 1881 Westcott-Hort New Testament

at BibleGateway.com



John 14:6 (b)



ουδεις | ερχεται | προς | τον | πατερα | ει | μη | δι | εμου

Noone | comes | to | the | Father | if | not | through | me.

Answer 15

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



dicit ei Iesus ego sum via et veritas et vita nemo venit ad Patrem nisi per me



"No one comes to the Father except through Me" means ONLY!!!



Let me give you a hint... if he said, "The ones that come through me go to the father" would not necessarly mean him only.







Try finding "The Lord works in mysterious ways" in the bible.

Answer 16

John 14 sorry it trook me while

Jesus the Way to the Father

5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"



6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."



8Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

Answer 17

Jhn 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.



THE GREEK WORD FOR "BUT" IS "EI ME" MEANING:





1) if not, except, but







Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.





REPENT AND BE SAVED

Answer 18

Because that's the Gospel Truth !

Answer 19

those verse didnt say non-christian cant go thru him either

Answer 20

It doesn't, it's the *I AM* not Jesus, The I AM is always here now, they've been hoaxed.

Answer 21

Yeshua loves you, and wants you to join him in his magical fairy-tale wonderland. Fortunately for us, Boogiepop saw through his sweet words and saw the real consequences of his actions, and killed both he and Jahova simultaneous with one throw of his crazy slicey-wire thing.

Answer 22

i DONT KNOW ANY LONGER - first he is the son of God ,then he is god then he is both then he is the holy ghost ,then he feels forsaken by God and by the way who is his father but he is his own father! yes he is God ,son of God, the holy ghost and he is his own father !





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