Is Jesus Christ the Only Way to God the Father?

Question:

Is Jesus Christ the only Way to God the Father? Do all ministers who profess to be Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the only Way to the Father? If any ministers do not believe that Jesus is the only Way to God the Father, are they called of God?


Answer from a follower:

[quote = Is Jesus Christ the only Way to God the Father? ]

Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to the Father. John 14:6-7 NKJV: 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.”

[quote = Do all ministers who profess to be Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the only Way to the Father? ]

Not all ministers who profess to be Christians are faithful followers of Jesus Christ, nor are they teaching/leading/directing others to the Father through Jesus Christ alone. They are walking and leading others in a broad path that leads to destruction.

Matt. 7:13-14 AMP: Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it.

[quote: If any ministers do not believe that Jesus is the only Way to God the Father, are they called of God? ]

It may be possible for someone to have been called of God and to have either "died on the vine" because of a lack of submitting to the call or disobedience, or to have turned away because of sin, or they may have fallen into deception so that their ministry is no longer based in the truth of God and, thus, would no longer be valid. But I really have to answer, "No, they are not called of God" because, if they do not believe Jesus is the only Way to the Father, then they don't understand the Atonement and have not been born again.

The very next thing that Jesus instructs following the narrow gate passage in Matt. 7 is the warning (vv. 15-16), "Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves. You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?" No, they don't.

It would be good to have a complete and thorough study of Jeremiah 23. "Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD" (v. 1).