John 14:6
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life
Not a teacher who points to a path. Jesus says he is the way, and that no one comes to the Father except through him. Everything on BuddhistTok comes back to this.
What he said
On the night before he died, Jesus told his disciples he was going to prepare a place for them. Thomas said they did not know the way. Jesus answered with a claim no Buddha ever made.
1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 4You know where I go, and you know the way.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”
John 14:1-7 (WEB) · context
Why only Jesus
Every one of us has sinned, and no amount of merit can buy back a life. Jesus did what no teacher could: he bore our sins in his body on the cross, died, and rose again. The apostles preached it in Jerusalem weeks after it happened.
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:23-24 (WEB) · context
24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:24 (WEB) · context
12There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
Acts 4:12 (WEB) · context
3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (WEB) · context
What he offers you
Not extinguishment, but life: forgiveness, peace with God, adoption as his child, the Holy Spirit living in you, and the certainty of eternal life with him. Not as wages, but as a gift.
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (WEB) · context
10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 10:10 (WEB) · context
12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 1:12 (WEB) · context
23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23 (WEB) · context
13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
1 John 5:13 (WEB) · context
What to do now
Come to him. Tell God, in your own words, that you turn from your sin and trust Jesus. Read the Gospel of John. Ask our AI guide anything, or talk with real people in the moderated live chat.
37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
John 6:37 (WEB) · context
9that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
Romans 10:9-10 (WEB) · context