John 14:6-7
Jesus is the Only Way to God
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.”
Jesus is the Greatest Religious Leader to ever live...He is the most influential Man, whoever lived - if it is fair to call Him a Man...He started the religion of Christianity, two thousand years ago, and Christianity still exists today...So there is no Christianity without Jesus...And His ministry only lasted only a little over three years...
Jesus was born from a miraculous virgin birth...His name is Immanuel, which means God with us...
He lived the Perfect Example of a Man and always followed God's Will...Jesus committed no sin, and no deceit was ever found in His Words...He was sinless, as His Father is sinless...And He claimed to be the Son of Man and the Son of God...His Father sent Him to earth and He came and dwelt among us to teach us about His Father and to teach us about Himself...
We also learn much about His relationship with God...St. John tells us that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...He was with God in the beginning...Through Him all things were made; without Jesus nothing was made that has been made...In Him is life, and that life is the light of all mankind...The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...So Jesus existed at the same time as His Father...He said that God was His Father and that made Him equal to God in Heaven...And His Disciple Peter said He and the other Disciples whom He taught was the Son of the Living God...Jesus teaches us that He and the Father are One...Once you have seen Him, you have seen the Father...He was with His Father in the beginning...He is the Divine Son of God...
Jesus was Perfectly Forgiving...And He forgave others as only God can forgive people...Jesus said that He had the Power to forgive others of their sins...
Jesus could also heal others of their illnesses...He fed those who were hungry...He helped the blind see, and the lame walk...He raised the dead...He performed many other miracles...
Jesus death was prophesized by Isaiah hundreds of years before it happened...He died on the cross...He rose three days after His death...He had five hundred witnesses that He came back to life, including His Disciples and others who knew Him and saw Him...He is the Savior of the world, for He died for our sins...It was He who bare our sins in His Own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed...There is no other name for our salvation...
Jesus gave His Disciples the command to teach others of His Gospel before He ascended to heaven to be with His Father...He is our Eternal Mediator with God...No one gets to the Father, except through Him...The Bible is not complete without Him...