The Way

Sort of a follow up to yesterday, where I wrote that we each have a different testimony of how we came to the Lord, I need to be certain I'm writing of only one way.

A celebrity was heard to say there are many paths to reach God. If we look at how people come to Him, that holds true. Each individual experience is unique, each relationship with Him is different and the tasks laid out before each person do not match another’s.

However, there is but one way.

David wrote of  it:

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. (Psalms 86:11 KJV)

Jesus spoke of it:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 KJV)

Christians are often scorned because they believe it and (as David) chose to follow:

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. (Psalms 119:30 KJV)

The 8th chapter of John tells of a conversation between Jesus and very devout Jews. In verse 30, we're told 'many believed on him.' In verse 32, He told those that believed:

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32 KJV)

Then He told them:

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. (John 8:37 KJV)

And, He was right.  The very crowds that sang Hallelujah on His entry into Jerusalem called for His crucifixion before the week was out. Among them, those of verse 30. Here, Jesus gave us the source of lies:

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. (John 8:44-45 KJV)

Instead, mankind has chosen to become one:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
(Romans 1:25 KJV)

There are not many ways to come to God.  He provided one and has given many to witness and testify of that one way:

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:14-18 KJV)

Nothing in those verses refutes the Bible. Those verses complete the testimony.