Is Jesus really the way, truth and life; if so then why aren't people following him?

Question

If John 14:6 tells us that "Jesus is the way, truth and life"; then
why are most(Matt.7:13; Phil.2:21) of the world not following him such as Catholics, Sunday Keepers, Jehovah Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists? I want to hear from these groups; is it because you want to deny Jesus?
1st Example: Jesus kept the Sabbath Saturday(John 4:22-24; Acts 13:27); but most people will tell you it's Sunday; where's their evidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday
I mean when you're in grade school; they even tell you the seventh day is Saturday.You're telling me that Jews kept Sunday; Jews don't keep Sunday, they keep Saturday. Wasn't Jesus a (Matt.2:2)Jew? Now my point is: if the Encyclopedia tells us the Sabbath is Saturday; then isn't most of the world sinning(James 2:10; 1John 3:4)?
Note: Catholics took out the 2nd commandment and put the 4th into the
third commandment which they call the Sabbath; didn't they try to
change God's Law as foretold in Dan.7:25.
Evidence from the Catholic Source and other christian churches:
http://www.marianland.com/tencommandments/ten_commandments.html
http://www.truecatholic.org/baltp2.htm
http://www.padfield.com/1993/tencom.html
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/YJesusCame/page4.html
Now if you're going to tell me he rose Sunday; who said "he rose
Sunday"(2Tim.2:18)--doesn't mainstream christianity again; the one's
that don't have the truth. It seems they assume alot and do too much
guess work instead of relying on God and his Word.


2nd Example: What about the (Lev.23)Sabbath Feast Days in
John 7:2,6,8,11,14; 1Corinthians 11:20-31; John 14:1,12,14,16,17,
22-25 that Jesus kept? Why all the deceit that they're done away
with? If they were done away with at the cross; then why did the
(Eph.2:20)Apostles keep the Sabbath(Acts 14:44; 17:2 ) and
(Acts 2:1; 20:6,16; Rom.5:11; 1Cor.5:6-8; 16:8; 1Thess.4:16)
Sabbath Feast Days?
1COR.3:11 = "For other foundation can no man lay that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ."

It says that "Jesus is the same yesterday, as to day, and forever." To try to justify your actions; it doesn't make sense. also Jesus didn't rise Sunday or die Friday; it says he died (Dan.9:27)Wednesday and was (Matt.12:40)"in the grave 3 days and 3 nights." As to JW; why don't you go to church Saturday as well as the feast days. You as others say they're done away with; don't you?

It says in Heb.13:8 that "Jesus is the same yesterday, as to day, and forever." To try to justify your actions; it doesn't make sense. also Jesus didn't rise Sunday or die Friday; it says he died (Dan.9:27)Wednesday and was (Matt.12:40)"in the grave 3 days and 3 nights." As to JW; why don't you go to church Saturday as well as the feast days. You as others say they're done away with; don't you?

Answer 1

I am really interested in knowing in what way you believe that Jehovah's Witnesses do not follow Jesus. They believe that the Sabbath was on Saturday and that this is a Sabbath period so that ALL of their time should be spent putting God first and following Jesus instead of just 1/7th of it. They go door to door as he did and they follow every teaching found in the Bible. They do not pass a collection plate but, rather allow God to motivate each one to give privately as God directs. Their work is totally funded by these voluntary offerings.

Answer 2

In dealing with the Law, and yes Jesus fulfilled the law, thus nailing it to the torture stake, Galations.

At Acts chapter 15 the older men and the apostles said the only thing remaining was the prohibition of blood and prohibition on idols.

We are also told that those who keep the fesitals today are those weak or babes in the faith.

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Daniel chapter nine is dealing with weeks of years.

When it says he died at the half week, that is from his start of 29 CE plus 3 1/2 years to 33 CE
with the covenant to the Jews in force for the remaing 3 1/2 years or to the end of the week.

this is when Cornilus the first non jew / proselyte became a christian in 37 CE.

Answer 3

You are mixing "Religion" with Christianity.
Jesus was a good Jew & followed Jewish Law.
Most Christian churches do Sunday as the Sabbath after the change related to the fact Jesus rose on a Sunday.
Now on the WHY people don't folow him or worship him: Free Will.
Satan has a stronghold on this world. Many people willingly allow him to keep their eyes, hearts. lives closed to what Christ has done for them.

Answer 4

We (christians) live under New Testament law. Christ rose on the 3rd day, being a sunday, so this is where it became the new sabath. He tells us that we are "free from the law", meaning old testament laws...why? because He came to lay down His life for us, we no longer sacrifice animals for our sins, they are paid...so we live under New Testament laws more than others. "Love the Lord with all your heart, soul and might, and love your neighbor as yourself" these are His commandments. He came to tell us to stop being so much about laws and who does wrong or right, and think about serving Him and reaching others that they might know Him. Heart over Head!

Answer 5

Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian, or "do not follow Christ". Yet it is Jehovah's Witnesses who are the most active in preaching the "good news" of God's Messianic Kingdom by Jesus Christ!

Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/article_04.htm

Answer 6

certain, and we are not some thing without him and of no eternal fee without entering into his will and serving him wholeheartedly. Jesus suggested, "The thief cometh not yet to thieve, kill and smash. I have come to grant existence, and existence more advantageous abundantly." John 10:10 praise God, he's our each and everything!

Answer 7

Jesus was a jew, the jews followed Jewish law. The jews met on Saturday, the christian jews met on the first day of the week-Sunday- to celebrate the day that Jesus rose from the dead yes he did rise on a sunday-Crucifided on a friday-friday, sat sunday-he rose on the thrid day:
references;
Mat 28:1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb" This shows it was sunday-AFTER the sabbath.

Mark 16:9 Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons."

John 20:1 "Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance."

John 20:19 "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"

Act 20: 7 'On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight." The term , 'to break bread' meant the lords supper-not a meal this was discussed in detail in another chapter about not eating like a pig!

1 Corth 16:2 "On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made." they broke bread, talked about Jesus and gave money all on the first day of the week-what does this sound like to you?

Concerning 2 Tim 2: 16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18who have wandered away from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some." This is talking about The resurrection of those who are saved. Are you implying Jesus did not rise from the dead? Kind of confused here.

The Apostles kept the Sabbath and other jewish traditions because they are jews. Do you really think God cares what day we attend worship of him? Didn't he make ALL the days? He just wanted us to set at least 1 day aside for him.

We are not now bound by the law of the jews:
Hebrews 8:13, "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."KJV
3By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear." NIV-easier to read

What was the purpose of the law?
To show us what sin was-Romans 3: 20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

Righteousness Through Faith-NOT the law

Romans 21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
Romans 3:28, "For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
Romans 6: "14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace."
Gal 3: "11Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." 12The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

You could also say that under jewish law men HAVE to be circumcised! Paul spent many a letter saying why this wasn't needed and if you know your bible you also know this. Same thing.
God is way bigger that this. We are saved by Grace through our faith in Jesus the christ-not by keeping the sabbath.
God loves you and will teach you many things.

Answer 8

his path was but one path of many, he listened to the holy spirit, and so have alot of others that have walked the earth, and he would probably say, listen to the holy spirit it would never guide you in the wrong way no matter what religon you are, what you have done, and where are you from

Answer 9

You forgot Atheists....

We just don't believe in any of the hubbub. We can't deny something that doesn't exist and never existed.

Answer 10

oh... so sorry to break this news to you but..... people are following him. :)
I am one of them and so are 2.5 billion other people ( and rising)