Jesus, the way, the truth and the life
By Ken
@kanuck1 (4394)
March 15, 2021 10:22am CST
Jesus, in John 14:6, described himself as the way, the truth and the life. What did he mean by saying those things?
* How is Jesus the way? Jesus is the way to many things. He is the way to the Father, meaning that he knows the Father (The Almighty God, the Most High God, the Creator, the Supreme Being, the God of gods) and the way for us to know him and be in a good relationship with him. Jesus shows us the way to have God's approval and blessing.
* How is Jesus the truth? Jesus alone spoke the truth and lived the truth. While Satan the Devil has lied about everything and the truth is not in him, the truth is in Jesus and there are no lies in him.
* How is Jesus the life? Jesus revealed to us how we can live the real life, a happy life, a life of purpose, a life that pleases God. He also is the way and tells us the truth on how we can obtain everlasting life for eternity.
* Jesus' way, truth and life, is also the key to understanding everything and proving everything. Jesus is a real person and his existence can be proved. He lived, died and was resurrected. Christianity exists because Jesus lived, died and was resurrected. Christianity was started all because of the resurrection. So, Jesus is the key and the confirmation to proving everything else!
What do you think?
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Points for meditation:
Is there any doubt that God and Jesus love everyone of us? Jesus came to earth from heaven, was born as a human, and died for our sins. Can anyone have greater love? (John 15:13)
If Jesus was not resurrected, why would the apostles and the early Christians sacrifice their lives for a lie? (1 Corinthians 15:14)
Once we prove to ourselves that the resurrection was real and true then we really don't need to prove anything else. We can accept all that Jesus said was true. (Romans 12:2)
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
3 Apr 21
Our Lord Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
The mystery which man fails to understand unless our God grants it to us.
Our Lord Jesus is the Second Person in the Triune God. As our Lord Himself verbalized in His Gospel "Before Abraham. I Am."
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
@kanuck1 Don't you believe in the Triune God? That our Lord Jesus is true God and true Man?
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@kanuck1 (4394)
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8 Apr 21
@eileenleyva I believe what the Bible actually says and I read the Bible daily and have never come across the expressions "Triune God" or "Jesus being true God and true man".
I have come across Jesus saying in prayer that his Father is "the only true God".
John 17:3 (Easy-to-Read Version) 3 And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
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6 Apr 21
So true! John 6:44 (King James Version) 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Acts 16:14 )King James Version) 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Matthew 13:23 (King James Version) 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
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@innertalks (21021)
• Australia
23 Mar 21
I wonder what was the importance of Jesus Christ coming at that time.
If he had come now, for example, instead of then, he could have broadcast his message much better to the whole world. Back then, he could only reach a small pigeon hole of people.
The Australian Aboriginals, the American Indians, had to miss out on salvation for thousands of years because of this.
They could not know the way, the truth, or see the light, and had no way of being saved back then either.
Does God have favourites then?
The old Testament is all about God's favourite people, the Israelites, the Jews, and Judaism.
The rest seem to be unto like cannon fodder to him.
All of the Egyptian's innocent babies killed at the pass-over, just to prove a point, that God was more powerful than the Egyptian God's were.
It's rather hard to understand what was really behind all of these happenings.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
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23 Mar 21
As usual, Steve you raise many interesting points.
"I wonder what was the importance of Jesus Christ coming at that time."
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (1599 Geneva Bible) To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
According to that verse God has an appointed or set time for all things to take place. God has a schedule, so to speak, for events to take place and we have to trust Him in what He does. The Creator of the Earth, the Sun and time surely knows when is the right and best time to do things.
Galatians 4:4 (KJV) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
God gives us enough things that we can understand so that we can be patient and wait to understand the things we don't.
I'll think about the other points that you raised and come back at another time to share what I come up with. 
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@kanuck1 (4394)
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24 Mar 21
@innertalks Yes, God's way of looking at time does not match the way we look at it.
The more we understand his point of view, the more loving and peaceful we become.
There is no need to get frustrated or upset by what we don't understand as eventually, in God's time, we will. All is working as it should and what doesn't seem to be working from our point of view God can easily fix in his time.
All injustices from our point of view will be fixed and compensation will be made. We created injustice and God allows it knowing full well that He can undo anything we do and make it right.
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@innertalks (21021)
• Australia
23 Mar 21
@kanuck1 And yet, at a few places in the Bible, it is said that God's time is not our time either.
And this would further add mystery to this timing of God's.
Yes, we could not argue that it must have been at the exact right time, its fullness was right then, as you pointed out too, but I sure would have liked to have been born when Jesus was on the Earth too, and met up with him too.
So, another question is, why was I only born now, and not then too, then?
God's timing must be right for me being born now too, in the fullness of his reasons for me being born now too.
@dgobucks226 (34350)
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26 Mar 21
You make some excellent points. Jesus taught humility, kindness, peace, hospitality and love for all things. Follow his teachings and you will be accepted into God's kingdom.
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