Exclusivity of Christ part 2: Jesus is the only way!

In short Jesus Christ is the Onetruth! What does that mean? Well Jesus is the only way to heaven, the only access to God, Jesus was God incarnate and the only way to have eternal life is to go through the ONLY doorway: Jesus Christ.
Don't like the sound of that? Sounds judgmental doesn't it? Too narrow minded huh? But we need to love dont we?

Though this may sound harsh in no way does this take away from the love that God has for all people and the love Christians are to display. Just because Jesus is exclusive doesnt mean He isnt inclusive.
"God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son."
~Ring a bell? God loves everyone, but to attain His perfect love, and to have eternal life you must go through Jesus Christ, not anywhere else.

Lets get started:

The Bible is clear, Jesus is the only way. I wrote a blog earlier about the exclusivity of Christ explaining this notion. Jesus Himself declares his exclusivity with John 14:6, Hebrews 5:9, John 3:35, Acts 4:12, Galatians 1:8 and etc....

The Bible continues to show without a doubt that Jesus was God in the flesh, and the only way to heaven and salvation.

John 4:1-3 "Dear friends do not believe every spirit but test the spritis whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world."

~This passage is very in its point but lets look at what John and who John was talking to. Historically we know that there were several different kinds of Christianity running around during the 50-150 A.D.

In his book 1 John--John is attacking the Gnostics. They were prevalent at the time of John and were spreading there theologies of Jesus ( which was that Jesus was totally divine and not human. Jesus was a different God than the God of the OT, believed at his baptism that he became the divine being Christ.)

What John does in this passsage is tell people:
#1-do not believe everything you hear, but in fact test everything because there have been many false prophets to come and teach a false gospel.

Well then how do we really know who is false and who is right in their teaching????

"This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledgews Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God."

John answers by saying we can recognize a spirit of God by that spirit(teaching) acknowledging that Jesus came in the flesh.
~First the word spirit in this passage probably refers to teachers. We can see from the text that in order for a spirit to be true or a spirit that is from God they must acknowledge that Jesus came in the flesh. Some try to reduce this flesh portion by saying that it simply means that Jesus was human, but this is incorrect. In fact it is the confession of a living Person, and acknowledges Jesus as the Christ Incarnate. Will Mcdonald says of this verse "The Spirit of God calls on all people to acknowledge that Jesus Christ as Lord and commit their lives to Him."


"Whoever does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God.."

~ here is a spirit that is false--It DOES NOT acknowledge Jesus as the Christ and IS NOT from God. This is a bold, and exlcusive statement made telling that any teaching, any notion, any spirit that does not ackknowledge Jesus for who he was---God in the flesh, incarnate--it is a false spirit. This puts many many religions under this catagory: Judiasm, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, and the list is endless. These groups dont acknowledge Jesus as being God but simply a great teacher or moral man, not the Christ, not Incarnate.
Therefore the next verse labels any group:

" this is the spirit of the antichrist..."


1 John 5:1 "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God....."

~another exlusive statement about Jesus. It doesnt have the names of Buddha, Vishnu, or the Law, it doesnt say that everyone who believes whatever they want is born of God, nor does it say that there are many ways to God therefore we are all born of God. IT SAYS THE OPPOSITE--only through Jesus Christ are we born of God, end of story.



1 John 5:4-5 "for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."

~Who overcomes this temptful, trying to drag us away from God world?
---It is only the one born of God through faith that has overcome this world. Well we established how to be born of God, but who specificially overcomes the world? Only believing that Jesus IS the Son of God. Notice first that it says is and not was or could have been. Second Son of God is attributing divinity to the persons mentioned. It is through ONLY Jesus that we overcome the world and in part have salvation from the world!!


1 John 5:11-"And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."

~ in this passage John continues to show the overwhelming evidence that he has seen with his own eyes ( 1 John 1:2) that Jesus is the Christ and He is God. There is no other way to attain this eternal life. Jesus claimed it himself, his disciples understood it and has offered it to everyone who accepts it. This verse tells us God has given us a way to live with him forever, and this life is in His Son. There are NO other substitutes, no other ways, no other teachings, religions, science theories, by which someone has life. The only is through Jesus Christ.........the one who does have the Son of God does NOT have life. This includes the list of religious groups I mentioned above. ( notice that it is not merely acknowledging Jesus from a historical point, nor a moral teacher point of view but of the divine Son of God)

THE POINT:
#1-that once again the Bible is ever so clear that Jesus is the only way to heaven, and eternal life with God.
#2-Christianity is an exclusive religion with an inclusive message.
~To believe that God might have manifested himself to other religions is a fasle spirit or teaching. To believe in another religion other than one that preaches that Jesus is fully man, and fully God and gives us eternal life is false. To preach that there are many ways to God and many different truths is false. Jesus is the only way! He said it, his disciples knew it, and have given us this same message. To give into any other message or gospel is false......as Paul says in Galatians 1:8 "But even if we are an angel preaches another gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned."

God did not leave it to us to decide what is the right truth, He declared it as Jesus and only Jesus!!

May God Bless you!