Christian Yoga? It's a Stretch...(Is Yoga Demonic? Yes, it is.)

[Yieu]

This may be key to understanding the verse in question...

And what do you base that upon? Who was he physically speaking to at the time?

 

[eduardo89]

No I'm sorry.. You are claiming that.

Do not, ever, assume to speak for Jesus..

I'm not speaking for Him. I'm letting Him speak for Himself. He was very clear about it.

John 14:6, "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

He does not say he is a way. He says that he is the only way. If you disagree with this, that means you don't believe he is what he claims to be.

 

[eduardo89]

This may be key to understanding the verse in question...

You should read the entire chapter. He was physically speaking to the Apostles and when the Apostles ask him why He has only revealed Himself to them he chastises them for that and says that He is the way for all men.

 

[Yieu]

He was physically speaking to the Apostles. It was his of "farewell" to them at the Last Supper. I believe it is Peter who asks Jesus where He is going, Jesus responds that He is going to the Father. Thomas asks Him how they can follow Him there and Jesus responds to them that by knowing Him, they will know the Father. He is telling them that through Him they will reach Heaven. This means that if they have faith in Him, if they know Him, if they love Him, if they follow in His path, they know the Father.

I feel compelled to note that all of this reads agreeable to me and fits in with my view.

Edit: Whoa. I had no idea you had just responded to me. I was just trying to catch up in the thread.

I also think the post after the one I just quoted fits in with my view, minus the first sentence.

 

[lilymc]

No I'm sorry.. You are claiming that.

Do not, ever, assume to speak for Jesus..

Eduardo was not speaking for Jesus in the way that you're implying. There are numerous scriptures throughout the bible that show that Jesus is not just "a way" or "a door" but THE way and THE door. That is because Jesus IS God - not just a prophet or a teacher. If it were true that there were "many paths" or "many doors" to God, then He would have said so. He did not.

I know that this is a controversial statement. (Why do you think they crucified Jesus?) And I understand how it sounds to people who practice other religions or have entirely different beliefs. But Jesus Himself made these claims, and not only that, His actions backed up those words. So as I said in an earlier post, it really comes down to either believing Jesus or not.

As C.S Lewis put it:

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."​