John 14:5-14
Jesus is the Only Way to God
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
If we want to know who God is, we must look and learn about Jesus...If we want to know what it means to be human, we must look and learn about Jesus...Jesus' spoken words will never pass...He is the Truth, and the Way of Life...no one gets to God except through Him...IF we really know Jesus then we will know God...If one has seen Jesus then they have seen God...God worked in Jesus and He is in God and God is in Jesus...When Jesus left earth, He went to heaven to be with His Father...
N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop...Here are some of N. T. Wright's different comments about God and Jesus: “God is the One who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty...And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true LORD.”...“The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you...That's why theology and worship belong together.”...“From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized...All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps...The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.”...“Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.”...“When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him...Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who He is or what He's done.”...“If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus...If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus...If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus...If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus...And go on looking until you're not just a spectator, but you're actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.”...“The point of justice and mercy anyway is not "they deserve it" but "this is the way God's world should be", and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God's world WILL be.”...“People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.”...“Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world...He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon Himself...Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world...He brings healing and hope...He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar...He allows evil to do its worst to Him...He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.”...“The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra...It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about.”...“The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.”...“Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word...The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.”...“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven...That, after all, is what the LORD's Prayer is about.”...