{"id":219,"date":"2008-12-02T21:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T02:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-12-02T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T02:53:49","slug":"the-door-1-john-222-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/the-door-1-john-222-25\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door – 1 John 2:22-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

In John 14:6, John reported Jesus as having said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.\u00a0 No one comes to the Father except by me.”\u00a0 With those words, there was no room left for any other way to salvation.\u00a0 Now, we can either believe it or not…that option is left to us, but changing it is’t.\u00a0 It makes no sense to me how a group, denomination, church, etc., can call themselves “Christian” and yet deny the exclusivity of Christ for salvation.\u00a0 This goes back to an earlier post<\/a> where I talked about the meaninglessness that the word “Christian” is coming to have.<\/p>\n

In his letter, John essentially reiterates the same idea by claiming that the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and, in essence, among the antichrist.\u00a0 In verse 23, John says exactly what he said in his gospel, only a different way:<\/p>\n

No one who denies the Son has the Father.\u00a0 Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then he encourages us to stick with that.\u00a0 Sounds easy enough, but in an ever-increasingly politically-correct world where tolerance is demanded towards every belief (except those who believe in Christ alone for salvation!), it becomes more and more difficult to openly hold to this.\u00a0 Subtle pressure mounts for us to compromise our beliefs in the name of tolerance.\u00a0 It must be pointed out, though, there is a massive difference in tolerating individuals who hold different beliefs and even tolerating their holding them, and giving them a pass in the name of tolerance.\u00a0 There is real Truth and though I never want to shove that down someone’s throat and insist that they hold to that (which is true tolerance), I do want to make sure that I speak that truth and live that truth in a compassionate way.\u00a0 As verse 25<\/a> explains, what is at stake is far too high to do otherwise.<\/p>\n

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In John 14:6, John reported Jesus as having said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.\u00a0 No one comes to the Father except by me.”\u00a0 With those words, there was no room left for any other way to salvation.\u00a0 Now, we can either believe it or not…that option is left to us, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20],"tags":[684,138,242,693,382,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-3x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":252,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/a-new-kind-of-test-1-john-41-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":219,"position":0},"title":"A New Kind of Test – 1 John 4:1-5","date":"December 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Up to now, the tests in 1 John have been for us.\u00a0 We have been given tests to demonstrate whether or not Christ really lives in us and if we are really following after Him.\u00a0 Now, the tables are turned. 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