Jesus. The Way to God

Post-modern tolerance demands that we view all religions on the same level. We should respect both Mohammed and Jesus because they founded great religions.

I was once at the main railway station in Frankfurt and spoke to Jehovah's Witnesses. A young idealist joined us and began to lecture us with great enthusiasm. Discussing the Bible was a waste of time. All major religions are paths to God.

I asked him a difficult question and he was somewhat taken aback.

‘If all religions are from the same God, why does no sacred text claim that all religions lead to the same goal? You don't find that in the Bible or the Koran. You won't find it in any old world religion.
This idea came more recently, from humanism, from the Enlightenment, from German Romanticism.

If Jesus is supposed to be on the same level as Mohammed, then we must completely disregard some of Jesus' astonishing statements.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jn 3:16–17 NIV

According to the Bible, all people must recognise Jesus as God's only Son in order to be saved.  
 
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jn 14:6 NIV

Jesus declares that God is the Eternal Father.

In Islam, Allah is the ruler God and judge but not a father. He has no children. This is said to contradict his nature.

‘Believe in Allah and his messenger (Muhammad), but say nothing of a trinity. There is only one God, far from him, that he has a son. Verily these are unbelievers who say: Allah is Christ, the son of Mary. Whoever joins someone to Allah, Allah will exclude him from Paradise, and his dwelling place will be Hellfire’ (Suras 4, 172; 5, 73f.).

Anyone who believes in Jesus as God's eternal son is rejected by Muhammad in the Qur'an and will suffer eternally in the flames of hell, according to Muhammad.

The human heart longs for a loving father who loves us unconditionally.

Jesus died to reconcile us with our Father, if only we believe and trust.

All atheists, Hindus, communists, Muslims or mystics who recognise Jesus as God's eternal, almighty, merciful Son and also want to repent will all receive eternal life, all of them.

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.
Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?” Jn 11:25–26 NLT