Of all Jesus’ sayings, perhaps the most scandalous, and certainly the most politically incorrect, is “I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). No one comes to the Father except though me.”
It bends the American mind to the point of breaking that anyone could say such a thing. How intolerant!
But truth is intolerant. For the same reason you don’t want to read on your bank statement, “About three thousand dollars.” For the same reason you don’t buy a 3/4″ nut to fit a 1/2″ bolt. For the same reason you don’t put diesel fuel in a gasoline engine. For the same reason Windows is not Apple.
So why is it that in our everyday lives we accept the concept of absolutes, and the narrowness of only one way, but when Jesus says He is the truth, and the way, we recoil?
Maybe because we never really have examined His claims enough to know that because only He gave His life as a payment for our sins, it is only He who can make us right with the God we have offended.
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12