Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. John 14:5
The major religions of the world agree on this: death is not the end.
What there isn’t agreement about is what qualifies you to make the journey from this life to beyond. Only Christianity offers a way to eternal life that is not based on things we do or don’t do, but on a work already done by a person who was both man and God. His Name is Jesus Christ and this is what He did:
Jesus was willing to allow Himself to be put to a gruesome death by crucifixion. Besides this physical torture, Jesus knew, that at the time of His death, God, would punish Him with all the sins of all the people for all time. From that moment until God raised Him back to life three days later, Jesus experienced what you or I have never experienced and that is total separation from God. Here are Jesus’s own words about Himself and the way to the life in God’s favor that never ends. Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me” (John 14:5). If these words strike you as just too narrow, too exclusionary, you’re not alone.
“These words are offensive in our relativistic culture,” admits one author, “because Jesus doesn’t call himself a way, a truth and a life. But he unapologetically calls himself the way, the truth and the life.”[1] The life that Jesus offers never ends. But, for the person who will accept Jesus’s invitation to come and follow Him, that never-ending life begins here and now. “I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness,” Jesus said (John 10:10 BSB).
Consider the offensive words of Jesus.
[1] Simons, Ruth Chou. [@thegospelcoalition]. “June 22.” Instagram, June 22, 2024, https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hlz8mOFRe/?img_index=1.
