Quote Originally Posted by sayso View Post
How about this question soms, I say that Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life". He said, "no one comes to the Father (God) but by Me".

Tell me why you think He didn't mean what He said please.
Just wanted to make sure you referenced the quote. John 14.6 states:

Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth 5 and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."


John 14. 21 states the following:

"Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."


I think Jesus means what he says. He is the only way to the Father. In saying this, I think verse 21 applies to those very people mentioned in Romans 2.12-16:



12 All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it.
13 For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law.
15 They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them
16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus.

This is possible because they are able, without the law or even the knowledge of Christ and his Gospel, find in Romans 1.18-20 the principles of natural revelation:

18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
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For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them.
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Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse;