Passage

John 14.6

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6, ESV)

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ESV (ESV)

"And you know the way to where I am going. Thomas said to him, 'Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?'"

"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and 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. From now on you do know him and have seen him. Philip said to him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.'" (John 14:4-8, ESV)

Jesus' self-identification as the way, the truth, and the life is the most-cited Bible passage across ris3n's Philosophy and Logic notes, invoked three times, each time anchoring a different philosophical concept in Christology. It functions as the bridge between the abstract philosophical work in this folder and ris3n's Christ-centered commitments.

Quoted in

• 02 Faith and Worldview
• 04 Defeating Objections
• 05 Evangelistic Apologetics
• 1 Timothy 2.5
• 100 Common Questions
• Abiogenesis Under the Microscope (ris3n)
• Acts 4.12
• Argument from the Reliability of Reason
• Atheism Promotes Hatred Lies and Self-Idolatry
• Christian God is the Only True God
• Christianity
• Critical Thinking Christian Framework
• Doctrine
• Fourth Way - Degrees of Perfection
• Free Will Argument from Love
• G0225 - aletheia
• G1510 - eimi
• G2198 - zao
• G2222 - zoe
• G4314 - pros
• Genesis 28.12
• H0571 - emet
• Heaven
• Jesus
• Jesus is Jacobs Ladder
• Job Bet Objection
• John 1.1-14
• John 1.1-18
• John 1.51
• John 10.10
• John 11.25
• John 11.39-40
• John 14.17
• John 14.23
• John 14.9
• John 17.21
• John 17.24
• John 6.40
• John 6.44
• John 8.22-24
• John 8.24
• Laws of Logic
• Lesson 4.5, Comparative Religion Engagement
• Liar Lunatic or Lord
• log
• Lordship Salvation
• Meaning-Centered Evangelism
• Modus Ponens
• Necessity of the Incarnation
• New Age Spiritualism
• Omnism Objection
• Philippians 2.10-11
• Quick Objection Responses
• Ravi Zacharias
• Religious Pluralism Objection
• Religious Pluralism Objection Defeater
• Revelation 1.18
• Salvation Exclusivity
• Salvation of the Unevangelized
• Satanic Fabrication Objection Defeater
• Spirit of Deception
• Theories of Truth
• Thomas the Apostle
• Transcendental Argument for God
• World Religions
• Young's Literal Translation

Theological themes

• Exclusivity of Christ. The "no one comes to the Father except through me" clause grounds Christian particularism; relevant to the Argument from Religious Pluralism cluster.
• Truth as personal. The "I am" identifies Christ with truth itself, connects to the divine-name "I AM" tradition and to Logos / John 1.1.
• Way / truth / life as triad. The three terms are often read together: Christ as the means (way), the content (truth), and the destination (life) of salvation.

Cross-references

• John 1.1, the Logos prologue; pairs with the truth-identification here.
• Exodus 3.14, the divine "I AM"; Jesus' "I am" sayings echo this.
• See Christ Is Lord cluster in the Theology and Doctrine notes for fuller christological treatment.

See also

• Logos, the related conceptual hub.
• Modus Ponens, invoked through the conditional reading in Laws of Logic.

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