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I had lunch with a beautiful friend of mine, one who blossoms with the work and love of God within her. She asked me this question: “So many people judge other people as not of God because their beliefs aren’t ‘born again.’ What do you make of the verse where Jesus says I am the Way, the Truth and the Life…No one cometh to the Father but by me. ?

Here’s how I understand this verse: Anything that draws us to God is Christ. These words were not spoken as a means of excluding others. They were spoken in the context of clarification to Jesus’ disciples. Here’s the context from the Gospel of John, Chapter 14 in the New King James Version:

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many *mansions; if it were not so, *I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”….
Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

The point of this discourse is not “correct belief” but recognition of the Way, the Truth and the Life as it is manifested in our lives through that which draws us to God and our own actions which demonstrate that we, like Christ, live in this reality.