the way, the truth & the life

Hey Jesus, today is a good day for me. But then, it’s always a good day whether we acknowledge it or not. At times like these, it’s too easy to forget that you exist and carry on with our life and slot you into a cubby hole of affection to be contended with at some future time. But as the alien in the The Fifth Element said, time is not important only Life is. And you are Life. Strange don’t you think? You said you are the Way, the Truth and the Life (And no one gets to the Father except through you). Once we admit that ‘the Way’, ‘the Truth’, ‘the Life’ and ‘the Father’ exists then next bit of obstacle is the validity of your statement within the evidence-proof debacle of our empirical soliloquy. Some will question the insufferable, megalomaniacal egotism implicit in your statement. Others will deny that a ‘mere’ man can lay claim to a vista, which is the purview of God(s). And of course some will state that it is just delusional nonsense that none should hold truck with.

Faith assault? I trust what you spoke. It makes sense and not just by the support of a large body of belief (or mass hypnosis as some would call it).

It doesn’t make sense but it does. It doesn’t make sense from within the empirical evidence-proof borders we live in. Here, every bit of statement has to be backed by an enormous structure of evidence and ‘hence, it is proven’ truths. For this crowd trying to build a structure where I can hang your statement and make it shine is almost impossible. But that’s not the point lord, its boring and oh so bone-wearying.

If you don’t dig it, no amount of proofing will get you to accept the evidence. It makes sense when I dig it. When I dig you. Mmmmmmmm.

Sad aint it lord? That we get trapped by our own nonsense and refuse to look up and tramp about in self insistent ardor: “This is way it is and this is the way it should work and I’ll be damned if I let any other way get right of way”.

You could ask this question of yourself you know. The disbeliever echoed.
Say again.
There’s nothing in all this rant to endear you to my thought lines. Nothing to make me change my stance on the superiority of the evidence-proof approach to life.

Hmmm. It’s a simplistic model and shouldn’t be treated as more than an opening teaser.

So what is the proof of the validity of my statement? you ask. I could just as well be jerking you around (and the entire human race) and trying to trap you into a referential view where you are subjugated to the tyranny of my lordship.

*smile* mmmmmmmmmmmmmm sounds good. Ok, I’ll put aside the horseplay and try and answer it ‘straight’.

‘External evidence’, that is objective discourses by ‘non-Christians’ does not even acknowledge your existence. So, you could as well be a mythical creation by renegade Jews who were trying to challenge the Levite authority established since Moses. And all the peace and ahimsa talk were just that.

It seems strange that there is nothing in external texts that refers directly or indirectly to you. My paranoid bent makes me suspect some vast conspiracy of the devil to suppress such literature. It’s an easy leap for ‘Christians’ to make. And not wholly unreasonable when you agree that the devil, ‘god-of-this-world’ has been given his marching papers. Still, from within proof validation evidence of your having walked this earth is flimsy. This I suspect is more your doing than the devil’s. Hmmph. Want us to trust you on you word now don’t you?

So what makes your statement valid? Other than the ‘because Jesus said it, its true.’

I can think of only one: that your mission on earth was to die on the cross and rise again in three days. To take on the burden of sin and do away with that entry barrier to God once and for all.

This makes sense: Sin had estranged us from God. The disconnect was seemingly permanent and irreversible. Till you came along and did your thing. Ergo, eureka, hence, therefore, so:

You are the way to the Father

1. You are the truth that illumines the way to the Creator of all Things
2. You are the Life that animates the truth

mmmmmmmmm. Sounds good huh? I think so too.

mmmmmaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh