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Pictured to the left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as the NEW AMERICAN BIBLE REVISED EDITION ( NABRE ); being entitled: THE NEW CATHOLIC ANSWER BIBLE. John 14:6 reads as follows:
"6 Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
The Greek word ( Greek [ 3598 ] ) for the word "way," in this same passage in the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Holy Bible, is defined as follows:
"a road; by impl. a progress (the route, act or distance); fig. a mode or means." [ See ABINGDON'S STRONG'S EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE, STRONG, JAMES, S.T.D., LL.D., ABINGDON PRESS, NASHVILLE, Copyright, 1890, by JAMES STRONG, MADISON, N.J., ( A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek/New Testament with their Renderings in the King James Version, p. 67. ). ]
Have you ever heard someone say, "All roads lead to heaven"? Such a statement is rendered false teaching by the words of Jesus ( in verse six, above ). Jesus clearly teaches, here, that He is the "road" by which one comes to the Father: He is the only mode or means by which one can do this.
One cannot come to the Father through the Baptist "road" ( John Smyth, for example ), the Catholic "road" ( Ignatz von Dollinger, for example ), the Methodist "road" ( John and Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield, for example ), the Episcopal "road" ( George David Cummins, for example ), the Buddhist "road" ( Siddhartha Gautama ), the Confucian "road" ( Confucius ), or the Muslim "road" ( Mohammed, for example ), for example ( see Acts 4:1-12 ( especially verses 10-12, for example ) and Ephesians 4:5, for example ). In order to be saved, you must be baptized, by immersion in water, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins ( see Matthew 1:16; 16:16 ( KJV, for example ), Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38; 8:26-40 ( especially verses 36-39 ( KJV, for example ), for example ), Romans 6:1-4 ( especially verses 3 and 4, for example ), and 2 Corinthians 4:13, for example ), and the Lord will add you to the New Testament church ( the church of Christ - see Matthew 16:18, Acts 2:41, 47 ( KJV, for example ), Romans 16:16, and Ephesians 1:22, 23, for example ): start following Jesus, the way, now ( see Luke 5:22, 27, and 28, for example ). See also Matthew 10:32; 11:15, Luke 13:3, and Revelation 2:10, for example. Please study the Holy Bible ( which is God's word - see Psalm 119:65-73, 142, 151, John 17:1, 3, 17, and 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16, 17, for example ).
If you have any questions about the Holy Bible, you can contact me by e-mail at:
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