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Title: What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6)
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URL Source: http://www.gotquestions.org/way-truth-life.html
Published: Oct 13, 2014
Author: Got ?
Post Date: 2014-10-13 15:50:42 by A K A Stone
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Question: "What did Jesus mean when He said 'I am the way and the truth and the life' (John 14:6)?"

Answer: “I am the way and the truth and the life” is one of the seven “I Am” statements of Jesus. On the last night before His betrayal and death, Jesus was preparing His disciples for the days ahead. For over three years, these men had been following Jesus and learning from His teaching and example. They had placed their hopes in Him as the Messiah, the promised deliverer, yet they still didn't understand how He was going to accomplish that deliverance. After the Last Supper, Jesus began speaking about His departure, which led to questions from His disciples.

In John 13:33, Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.” This prompted Peter to ask where He was going (v. 36). Peter and the others did not understand that Jesus was speaking of His death and ascension to Heaven. Jesus' response was “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” Peter was still misunderstanding and declared that he would follow Jesus anywhere and even lay His life down if necessary. As Jesus patiently continued to teach His disciples, He began speaking more plainly about heaven, describing the place He was going to prepare for them (John 14:2-3). Then Jesus said “You know the way to the place where I am going” (v. 4). Speaking for the others, Thomas said they did not know where He was going, so how could they know how to follow Him there? It was to this question that Jesus uttered one of the seven famous “I am” statements.

I am – In the Greek language, “I am” is a very intense way of referring to oneself. It would be comparable to saying, “I myself, and only I, am.” Several other times in the Gospels we find Jesus using these words. In Matthew 22:32 Jesus quotes Exodus 3:6, where God uses the same intensive form to say “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” In John 8:58, Jesus said “Truly, truly I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.” The Jews clearly understood Jesus to be calling Himself God because they took up stones to stone Him for committing blasphemy in equating Himself with God. In Matthew 28:20, as Jesus gave the Great Commission, He gave it emphasis by saying “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” When the soldiers came seeking Jesus in the garden the night before His crucifixion, He told them “I am he” and His words were so powerful that the soldiers fell to the ground (John 18:4-6). These words reflect the very name of God in Hebrew, Yahweh, which means “to be” or “the self-existing one.” It is the name of power and authority, and Jesus claimed it as His own.

The way – Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as “the only way.” A way is a path or route, and the disciples had expressed their confusion about where He was going, and how they could follow. As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them (and us) “follow me.” There is no other path to Heaven, no other way to the Father. Peter reiterated this same truth years later to the rulers in Jerusalem, saying about Jesus, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The exclusive nature of the only path to salvation is expressed in the words “I am the way.”

The truth – Again Jesus used the definite article to emphasize Himself as “the only truth.” Psalm 119:142 says “Your law is the truth.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminded His listeners of several points of the Law, then said “but I say unto you...” (Matthew 5:22, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44), thereby equating Himself with the Law of God as the authoritative standard of righteousness. In fact, Jesus said that He came to fulfill the law and the prophets (Matthew 5:17). Jesus, as the incarnate Word of God (John 1:1) is the source of all truth.

The life – Jesus had just been telling His disciples about His impending death, and now He was claiming to be the source of all life. In John 10:17-18, Jesus declared that He was going to lay down His life for His sheep, and then take it back again. He spoke of His authority over life and death as being granted to Him by the Father. In John 14:19, He gave the promise that “because I live, you also will live.” The deliverance He was about to provide was not a political or social deliverance (which most of the Jews were seeking), but a true deliverance from a life of bondage to sin and death to a life of freedom in eternity.

In these words, Jesus was declaring Himself the great “I Am,” the only path to righteousness, the only true measure of righteousness, and the source of both physical and spiritual life. He was staking His claim as the very God of Creation, the Lord who blessed Abraham, and the Holy One who inhabits eternity. He did this so the disciples would be able to face the dark days ahead and carry on the mission of declaring the gospel to the world. Of course, we know from Scripture that they still didn't understand, and it took several visits from their risen Lord to shake them out of their disbelief. Once they understood the truth of His words, they became changed people, and the world has never been the same.

So how do we follow Him today? The same way the disciples did long ago. They heard the words of Jesus and believed them. They took His words and obeyed them. They confessed their sins to Jesus as their Lord and God. They believed that He died to take the punishment of their sins and rose from the dead to give them new life. They followed His example and command to tell others the truth about sin, righteousness, and judgment. When we follow Him in “the way,” we can be assured of following Him all the way to Heaven.

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Now if Jesus (and he did of course) said he is the "only" way. Then every christian that isn't ignorant would/should know that that, it's Christianity 101. If someone thinks that they are a christian and believes that Jesus is not the only way. Then are they really Christians? For two reasons I would ask this question. First it is against the teaching of the Bible. Isn't the Bible what defines what a christian is? Secondly that would make Jesus a liar and therefore not sin free. So if Jesus was not sin free and a liar then he wouldn't be Gods son now would he? So anyone who says that they don't hate Christians or they don't want to vomit on Christians. That they only hate or only want to vomit on fanatics who say that jesus is the only way. Wouldn't that make them liars and really haters of all real Christians. And accepting of people who just claim to be christian but really aren't.

Didn't someone call Nazis Christians?

A K A Stone  posted on  2014-10-13   16:07:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: A K A Stone, redleghunter (#1)

Now if Jesus (and he did of course) said he is the "only" way. Then every christian that isn't ignorant would/should know that that, it's Christianity 101.

If someone thinks that they are a christian and believes that Jesus is not the only way. Then are they really Christians?

That opinion from a "Christian" would make Jesus Christ a liar, wouldn't it?

Beyond that, whereever a disbeliever winds up after THIS mortal life will be totally dependent on a merciful God and His Judgment.

So anyone who says...they only hate or only want to vomit on fanatics...Wouldn't that make them liars and really haters of all real Christians.

Yes. But giving the benefit of doubt, perhaps that vomiter merely had a moment of extreme hatred and nauseousness that caused that person to compare ALL Christians to ALL Muslims, blame ALL Christians for being "fanatical," and scapegoat them for the actions of "Christians-In-Name-Only."

Liberator  posted on  2014-10-14   10:20:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Liberator (#15)

Yes. But giving the benefit of doubt, perhaps that vomiter merely had a moment of extreme hatred and nauseousness that caused that person to compare ALL Christians to ALL Muslims, blame ALL Christians for being "fanatical," and scapegoat them for the actions of "Christians-In-Name-Only."

I'll ask you the questions I posed earlier on this thread:

Supposing someone's great-grandfather had purchased property in 1914, and then neglected to make the payments, thus voiding the contract and leading to the property being foreclosed upon within the same year. Supposing the property at the time of that contract had sold for ten-thousand dollars. Would the great-grandson of the man who failed to uphold his end of the bargain, would he be able to show up a hundred years later, pay ten-thousand dollars (no matter what value the property had since appreciated to) and own the property?

Is not a covenant roughly the same thing as a contract? Are not covenants and contracts things that are mutually agreed upon by both parties? Does one party to the contract have the right to revise the terms of the contract in their favor, excusing their failure to perform as agreed to in the contract, and the wronged party has no legal recourse but to accept the unilateral revising of the contract?

What if the wronged party of the contract was the God of the party that had wronged them? Would that mortal have the right to dictate revised terms to their God?

nativist nationalist  posted on  2014-10-14   22:40:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: nativist nationalist, liberator, Don, GarySpFc (#19)

Some of the OT covenants were conditional in the OT. Some unconditional. In the cases of the conditional we see the firm hand of a father who will chastise a disobedient child. In the case of the unconditional we see the unconditional love of a father for a child. The child no matter how well raised can choose to be a disobedient bum, curse his father etc. Do fathers who have such children stop loving them? The OT and NT show us no...He keeps loving us. This is His Grace. The Grace is not based on the actions of the obedient or disobedient child. The Grace is abundantly available always to the disobedient child. All they need to do is repent and accept such Grace and the father will throw a feast for the son and accept him in the household. This is best expressed by Jesus Christ in the Parable of the Gracious father:

Luke 15:

11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

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