Correct, Nathan, he said ""I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." And he was NOT lying.

But, you have misunderstood what the Christ is. The Christ is an eternal Spirit, not an embodied form of a human being. When that Spirit is housed in a human body, as a human incarnation in a particular time and place...it SPEAKS through that human form and says:"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

That spirit spoke through Buddha, through Krishna, and through many others...since the dawn of time...in civilizations you probably haven't even heard of, and it will speak in futures you have not yet dreamt of...through other embodied forms...or within your own consciousness when you "go within".

Your mistake is confining the Christ to a single outward bodily expression in a single historical epoch. Not so.

As John wrote it, Christ spoke the truth...through the temporary vehicle which was the bodily form of the historical person Jesus. How else could He speak it but through those vocal chords in that moment? The Christ IS the only way to come unto the Father, and that Christ lives in you and me and everyone else right here and now.

Therefore I have no conflict with John's words in 14:6 on the subject.

- LH