Did Jesus Teach That There Can Be Only One True Religion?

Question

Did Jesus actually teach that there can be only one true religion or did He teach how people can worship God? His teachings seemed to be less religious and more spiritual. Take the Good Samaritan for example, he clearly stated that the true follower was someone who was merciful to everyone regardless of affiliation.

Did Jesus teach of a true religion or of a true path?

Answer 1

Jesus my Friend didn't came with religion Jesus show us and learn us how to believe in gad and how to pray to him and be faithful to him and to love all people and not to hate to help not to ignore Happy Easter and gad bless

Answer 2

After the death and Resurrection the followers were know as those who followed "the Way" only later did it become a separate religion called Christianity. Jesus showed us "the way". And a good one, a more straight path than some others. But I don't think that it is the only way. Some will tell you that He said "I am the way, the truth and the life, ... etc" and that this means that it is the only way. But many of the great saints and even popes have not had that view.

Answer 3

Jesus taught us, showed us, who God is. He gave us examples of how "loving God" looks. But make no mistake, it is only through a belief in God, as depicted through scripture, that we come to know who God is.

Religion is the act of how and what we worship as a god and is a set establishment. Jesus did not teach that there can be only one true religion, He taught us who God, the one true God, is. My religion (how I act out my faith) is set upon the principles of the Old and New Testament.

Jesus taught that there was only one way to Heaven, eternal life (as opposed to eternal death). Although many don't like the "one way" theology, it's like arguing that every action doesn't have an opposite and equal reaction. The fact remains, every action DOES have an opposite and equal reaction. It's a law of reality, just like God is a reality, and His plan of saving mankind is a reality. It is what it is because God is who He is.

Answer 4

John 14
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1John 2
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

1John 4
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2John 1
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Answer 5

Yes, he did.
See the words of Christ below.

Yes, there are many belief systems. Yet only one of the world’s religions, Christianity, possesses all of the following attributes:

1. Other religions revolve around their founder’s teachings, rules, regulations, and rituals. Christianity, however, revolves around a Living Person, the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Christianity is unique because it is based upon historical facts and the revelation of God in the Bible.
3. Christianity is the only religion that offers the Assurance and Security of Salvation
4. It is the only religion that teaches that salvation is a free gift, unmerited by anyone, of god’s grace. There is nothing a person can do to merit salvation, since it is received through faith, apart from works.
5. Other religions were started because of man’s attempt to search for the supernatural, search for the truth, appease their innate sense of sin and guilt, and find favor with his god. But Christianity is the account of God’s search for mankind. "For the Son of Man has come to see and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10; John 10:10). His love for us was the reason He has revealed Himself to us through His Son Jesus and by His grace we are saved (Ephesians 2:8-9).
6. It reveals God as the Triune God - God as the Father, God as the Son, and God as the Spirit
7. Christianity is exclusive in its claims. How is Christianity Exclusive?

A. The God of Christianity is claimed to be the only true God (Jeremiah 10:10; Jude 25).

B. The Bible is claimed to be the Word of God and the only true revelation from God (Isaiah 8:20; Revelation 22:18-19; 2 Timothy 3:16).

Investigation by even the most skeptical will also reveal that there exists NO SINGLE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY that has been shown to prove error, factually or doctrinally, in the Bible. There is lots of speculation and hypotheses, but not a single verifiable fact. If you or anyone should discover one, you will become quite famous. Yet, since recorded history, no one has offered it up and entered their names into the history books. Instead what we have is pseudo-science pandering to the masses, as in the recent John Cameron tomb of Christ debacle.

As a simple experiment, try turning your objective intellect towards the argument that no book, comprising 66 “mini-books”, written over a period of 1500 years by 40 vastly different authors, having an outstanding literary internal consistency and coherency, could be written by mankind alone. Add to that the survival of the book’s ancient manuscripts, numbering in the tens of thousands, over thousands of years and yet these manuscripts remain over 98% textually pure. How this possible, when compared to all the other ancient writings are so few in number? For instance, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain all books of the Old Testament, except Esther, and have been dated to before the time of Christ. Now consider Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Only ten copies written about 1,000 years after the event are in existence. In comparison, there are over 24,000+ New Testament manuscripts, the earliest one dating to within 24 years after Christ. How can we objectively and rationally explain this book, the Bible, especially in light of the claims I have made above?

An honest study of biblical prophecy will compellingly show the divine authorship of the Bible. Further, archeology confirms (or in some cases supports) accounts in the biblical record. No other holy book comes close to the Bible in the amount of evidence supporting its divine authorship.

C. The Biblical way of Salvation is the only way of salvation. There is no other way (John 3:36). No matter how good, religious or sincere a person may be, unless he or she has faith in Jesus they will not be saved. "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).

D. Jesus Christ claims to be the only way to God, the only way of salvation and the only way to eternal life in heaven (John 3:16-17). Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6).

The scales had no choice but to tip in favor of Christianity and God.

Answer 6

Hello Bandicoo… :)

James 1

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself "unspotted" from the world..


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)

Answer 7

No, Jesus taught there was only one truth. Religion is man made. Truth is god.

Answer 8

Jesus is the only way to heaven. He is the tru way and the Only way to spend eternity in paradise. He is the way, the truth, and the life. nobody goes to the Father except thru Him.

Answer 9

Jesus definitely taught the true path,though different people or groups missused his teaching to achieve different goals.

Answer 10

No, he did not. No where does Jesus say that Christianity (or any other religion) is the only way to go .