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Post by bubbles on Sept 30, 2014 5:14:09 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of confusion and debate.
What does 'Jesus is the way' mean too you?
John 14:16 "I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the father except through me."
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Post by kencoolidge on Sept 30, 2014 6:33:16 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of confusion and debate. What does 'Jesus is the way' mean too you? John 14:16 "I the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the father except through me." Bubbles The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey JMT ken
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Post by bubbles on Sept 30, 2014 6:43:52 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of confusion and debate. What does 'Jesus is the way' mean too you? John 14:16 "I the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the father except through me." Bubbles The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey JMT ken Hi ken After we began attending another church I had a conversation with my Mum on this topic. My pastor had been teaching me to hold the scripture and declare it. The conversation escalated into a huge row. Me quoting scripture hoping she would hear me ( faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word) and Mum arguing 'the truth is the way.' I love my Mum this was the first 'religous fight' we had. Over time one day I heard her state the truth. I also recall my pastor explaining I had a lot of manmade quotes/ rules that werent scripture. Eg: we are the only way. The workers are gods only true ministers. We are the only ones going to heaven. Etc He would take me to scriptures which adjusted my mindset. I began to see there were a lot of manmade rules. Focus on things that were earthly rather than things that brought good change in my life. I never heard a worker teach on so many topics that were relevant to everyday living.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 7:16:54 GMT -5
I do not wish to infringe any copy right laws, but there is a very revealing and impressive hymn in the Hymns book: Hymns Old And New ; I refer to Hymn #81-- Footprints of my Saviour. The first verse says: Blessed footprints of my Saviour mark for me the Perfect Way, as a beacon in the darknes, beaming with celestial Ray. The chorus is also very inspiring, but I will not reproduce it here, however, if you have access to a Hymn Book you can look it up. I guess many of you will remember it anyway.
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Post by breakingfree on Sept 30, 2014 8:55:09 GMT -5
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.
InJohn 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. InMatthew 22:32Jesus quotesExodus 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.” InJohn 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. InMatthew 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 119:142says “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. InJohn 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. InJohn 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.
Read more:http://www.gotquestions.org/way-truth-life.html#ixzz3Eo5sTJEK
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Post by sharingtheriches on Oct 2, 2014 9:57:35 GMT -5
To declare Jesus as the "only" way, truth and life is simply believing on him. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Plainly it speaks about having faith that God's gift of His Son is adequate to pay for all of our sins and bring us back before the Father blameless and filled with the righteousness of Jesus through our "faith" in Jesus.
There are NO other person(s) that we can get such gifts from and the price is "repentance and baptism" in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. If we do not believe that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is adequate to wash us clean of our sins then we will not know eternal salvation......for eternal salvation comes from our believing in Jesus Christ for he is the way, the truth and the life!
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Post by dmmichgood on Oct 2, 2014 14:16:25 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of confusion and debate. What does 'Jesus is the way' mean too you? John 14:16 "I the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the father except through me." Bubbles The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey JMT ken What does these words & phrases mean in practical ways of being & doing?
These words are all so nebulous; "the way, the truth and the light." "The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey."
Just what is meant by "way to heaven and home?"
How does one "live out God's word" . Which words?
What, in actual terms, is the "way to walk?"
If someone who never heard of Christianity, and one was trying to explain what it meant by these words in practical terms of how one acts?
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Post by xna on Oct 2, 2014 14:39:22 GMT -5
Bubbles The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey JMT ken What does these words & phrases mean in practical ways of being & doing?
These words are all so nebulous; "the way, the truth and the light." "The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey."
Just what is meant by "way to heaven and home?"
How does one "live out God's word" . Which words?
What, in actual terms, is the "way to walk?"
If someone who never heard of Christianity, and one was trying to explain what it meant by these words in practical terms of how one acts?
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 14:46:54 GMT -5
What does these words & phrases mean in practical ways of being & doing?
These words are all so nebulous; "the way, the truth and the light." "The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey."
Just what is meant by "way to heaven and home?"
How does one "live out God's word" . Which words?
What, in actual terms, is the "way to walk?"
If someone who never heard of Christianity, and one was trying to explain what it meant by these words in practical terms of how one acts?
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers. i think you got a little ahead of yourself if there are 399,635 answers to questions that equals 399,635 to 399,635 questions or 1:1 there is always an answer to a question even if it takes 40 years to find it its there...
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Post by dmmichgood on Oct 2, 2014 14:58:44 GMT -5
What does these words & phrases mean in practical ways of being & doing?
These words are all so nebulous; "the way, the truth and the light." "The way to heaven and home, Gods word lived out before others as a timeless unchanging example for us to follow, a lamp for our feet and everyday walk ,a light in heaven as a beacon of home for the journey."
Just what is meant by "way to heaven and home?"
How does one "live out God's word" . Which words?
What, in actual terms, is the "way to walk?"
If someone who never heard of Christianity, and one was trying to explain what it meant by these words in practical terms of how one acts?
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers. Now why didn't I think of that?
Now I see how breakingfree got that long quote about "I am."Still wonder exactly how one would explain that phrase "Jesus is the way, the truth and the light," to someone who came from outside our planet & had never heard of Jesus.
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Post by xna on Oct 2, 2014 15:02:13 GMT -5
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers. i think you got a little ahead of yourself if there are 399,635 answers to questions that equals 399,635 to 399,635 questions or 1:1 there is always an answer to a question even if it takes 40 years to find it its there... Some questions have multiple answers, or is there only one true right answer, and all the rest are the wrong answers? ;-) My point, which I was trying to make a little funny was, a clear document would not produce on average 333 questions per page. ------------------------------------ Edited answer: I see www.gotquestions.org says 70% of submitted questions have published answers, so for this website alone the ratio is 475 questions asked and answered per each bible page, not the 333, This however is a subset of all unique answers to bible questions, as I did not calculate JW answers website, + RCC answers website, + ... You see where this is going.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 15:18:27 GMT -5
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers. Now why didn't I think of that?
Now I see how breakingfree got that long quote about "I am."Still wonder exactly how one would explain that phrase "Jesus is the way, the truth and the light," to someone who came from outside our planet & had never heard of Jesus.
Anyone coming from outside our planet most likely would not speak our language anyway so it would be very difficult to explain anything to him or her about anything including Jesus.
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Post by dmmichgood on Oct 2, 2014 16:54:59 GMT -5
Now why didn't I think of that?
Now I see how breakingfree got that long quote about "I am."Still wonder exactly how one would explain that phrase "Jesus is the way, the truth and the light," to someone who came from outside our planet & had never heard of Jesus.
Anyone coming from outside our planet most likely would not speak our language anyway so it would be very difficult to explain anything to him or her about anything including Jesus. However, we assume they would be able to translate our language, -how then could you make them understand what was meant by "Jesus is the way, the truth and the light?" (without going to the apologists sites like http://www.gotquestions.org)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 17:12:14 GMT -5
Anyone coming from outside our planet most likely would not speak our language anyway so it would be very difficult to explain anything to him or her about anything including Jesus. However, we assume they would be able to translate our language, -how then could you make them understand what was meant by "Jesus is the way, the truth and the light?" (without going to the apologists sites like http://www.gotquestions.org)
With much difficulty and they still might not be able to grasp the concept. Lots of people living on this planet now have difficulty grasping it. An "O ye of little faith" situation.
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Post by BobWilliston on Oct 2, 2014 19:55:33 GMT -5
That's why there's www.gotquestions.org. ;-) The average bible has 1,200 pages www.gotquestions.org has 399,635 answers to questions That's 333 questions / page (and counting). It took 1,500 years for the first English bible to be written. By the numbers there are more questions than answers. i think you got a little ahead of yourself if there are 399,635 answers to questions that equals 399,635 to 399,635 questions or 1:1 there is always an answer to a question even if it takes 40 years to find it its there... Making more questions is not a problem if you are good at playing Jeopardy.
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