ABSOLUTE TRUTH

*That's who Jesus is, whether you like it or not!

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that were I am [there] you may be also." John Chapter 14, Verse 3.
"And where I go you know, and the way you know."
"Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way?"
"Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me."

Jesus said that He was the only way to God. The only truth. Well, lets look at this for a moment. The Testament to Jesus Christ's new covenant with man was written in Koine Greek. Lets research it:

Iesous lego autos ego eimi hodos (the way) kai aletheia (the truth) kai zoe: oudeis erchomai pros Pater (Father) ei me dai emou (me).

The literal translation of this Greek sentence has an untranslated Kai in it. Kai means 'and, also, even, indeed, or but', and is pronounced {kahee}. Now, that would make the literal transliteration, of each Greek word, stuck together, as:
    & nbsp;   'Jesus, saith, unto him, I, am, way, and, truth, and life, no man, comes, to, the Father (Pater), but, by, me.'
Way: hodos, a root word meaning road travelled, a way, journey, travelling. Put into the context of John Chapter 14, Jesus was telling them that He was the one route to go when someone dies.
Evidence? The verse before the first quoted verse above: Verse 3, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also." If Jesus died, and He said that the only way is the way He's going, and that He IS the way, then doesn't that state clearly by definition that He's claiming to be the absolute WAY? When someone dies, that He is the absolute?

Truth: aletheia (al-ay-thi-a), from root alethes which means true. This word literally means truly, in truth, or according to truth. The Strongs definition goes on to say, true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention; And, of a truth, in reality, according to truth. Jesus laid claim to this truth, that He's it. Jesus said clearly in John Chapter 4, Verse 24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." So there's but one God, and He's the only way to worship Him, and this contradicts what the modern thinking says about anything spiritual, stating that there are many roads that lead to God and everyone has their own personal truth. Modern day thinking is that there is no absolute truth, but here Jesus 2,000 years ago claims to be it.

Life: zoe (dzo-ay), which means, the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate. Jesus clear laid claim to life itself. In the beginning of John, Chapter 1, Verses 4-5. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." The testimony of Jesus is that all things were created by Him and for Him, including anyone reading this text. That Jesus's life is the light of men, and the only reason why you're alive is because of God's forbearance, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (Second Peter Chapter 3, Verse 9).

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Who is this Jesus that's spoken of so highly? Jesus's claims are that He has always been with the Father, because 'He and the Father are one,' meaning that within Himself, with the Holy Spirit, they are one together, 'Elohim.' He came as God in the flesh. You yourself are triune: you have a body, a soul, and a spirit. One rots in the casket while the others together appear before God after you die. So is God triune, as you are made bodily in the image of God: He is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

He not only laid claim that there's one God, and that He's the only way to worship Him, but He said He's God in the flesh! John Chapter 10, Verse 30, "I and my Father are one."

No absolute truth? Absolutely ridiculous!

Want another heavy piece of truth? Here's another heavy piece.

Romans Chapter 1 and Verse 20 states, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
Romans represents a letter written by Paul, who wrote what Jesus taught: Jesus, the absolute truth, taught that the Godhead (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) is clearly visible through creation! You can go outside and stare at nature and determine that from the creation, there had to have been a creator; And if you stare close enough, you can clearly determine this triunity that God has. So that leaves you without an excuse: if you'd search for it, you would see it. That means out of the womb, naturally, I know that there's a God. I don't need to tell anyone that there is. Just study history, or look at ancient tribes and figures, and dead civilizations, and study and see that they knew that there was a God, too. But chose not to worship Him as God in truth, as the next verse reveals

"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." It's talking about God's chosen vessel, the Jews, that would be the oracle, or voice, of God among the nations under that old Covenant.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Isn't that what is happening with today's thinking, aswell?!

Verse 23, "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." Today, we have, 'Evolution, Hinduism, Buddhism, Philosophy, Psychology, Hearsay, Relative truths, Confuscianism, Zen everything, Mormonism, Watchtower-ism, and all sorts of -ologies and -isms,' that all claim some form of the truth. Fools.
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: ..." Romans Chapter 1, Verse 26. So this is why! "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprovate mind, to do those thigns which are not convenient;"

No one wants to retain God in their knowledge these days: it's all about personal truths! Today's thinking goes something like... I don't need your god, my god works for me just fine. Or, You need God as a crutch for your life, but I'm strong enough, and I don't need God... Or, I'm not ready, I'm still living my life for me...

You serve yourself when you say that! Who are you serving? Do you truly believe that you're going to face the god you made up when you die? Or that Allah, Buddha, and the true God have fellowship with one another, and everyone will return to the one they choose here on earth? Jesus didn't think so. He's the bridge: He stated He came down, as God, to show you and tell you in our own realm of influence on earth, the way. That He's it. And that all that God's said is true. He confirmed it with many wonders and signs, and the same Holy Spirit He left behind still does signs and wonders today. But what He ultimately left for one to believe and confirm that His word was true: was the cross.

Here's what Jesus, truth, says to those that seek after a sign from God,
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee."
"But he answered and said unto them, And evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:"
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three night sin the heart of the earth."
Jesus was saying here that there will never, ever be a sign given to anyone from God but the cross! That IS His sign! If you don't come through the cross, God will not reveal Himself to you.
What's so special about the cross? Well, the fact that buddah couldn't die to reconcile you with God, because he wouldn't come back afterwards. Or that Muhammed couldn't die for your sins, because he had to pray 5 times a day for his own. Or that Evolution or any science ending in -ology can't cure the disease of death. But that Jesus Christ paid the price of sins (death) for those that would receive Him, and arose from death, defeating it, on the cross! Try and try as I may, I can say that I don't believein death, or that people can't die. But the fact of the matter is, I'm going to die whether I like it or believe in it or not. The problem I have is that afterwards, whether I like it or not, I'm going to pass before God in judgement. God says, "It's appointed for a man to die once, and after this the judgement." I can't be reconciled with a creator by any other name, because the person by another name didn't and couldn't die for me. This sets up the cross as the dividing line behind any other name. And gives Jesus the right and the access to the title of 'absolute truth.'

And what does this man say? Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 36 "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."

God wants you to repent (turn from sin), and put your trust in Jesus Christ, (Mark 16, Verse 16, Luke Chapter 24, Verses 46 AND 47), entering into the Covenant relationship that He's set up for salvation from sin, His wrath, this world, and the wrath to come after death: To have a right heart and conscience with God, receiving the seal of the covenant the Holy Spirit dwelling within you (John Chapter 7, Verse 49) to give you a new heart with a new nature to destroy the power of sin in you. God wants to save you, not for yourself but for Him. If you've ever stolen, committed adultery, or murdered someone, you've sinned against God, and are in dire need of Jesus as Savior. You might say you've never done those things, but consider that God doesn't regard value in theft and that a stolen paperclip is stealing, that God sees looking at someone's attractiveness as you walk by as adultery, and hating someone or calling them a name as murder, you'd be in big trouble. Jesus said in Revelations Chapter 21, Verse 8, "All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire" !!! Repent today! And put your trust in Jesus Christ, find out who He is, God. Go here: Blue Letter Bible, and start reading, today!

Those that wait until 12 o'clock to repent and believe, always die at 11:30! Do it now! While God has mercy on you enough to forbear you to live another moment!