Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   Chapter Fourteen

                                                                                                                                              Verses 5-6

In the past, Thomas must have heard Jesus say that He came from Heaven. John 6:33. This means that Thomas had to have at least assumed that Jesus spoke about His return to Heaven. John 14:4. But being somewhat of a materialist, Thomas must have thought of Heaven as being a physical place with something like a road that led to it. Being somewhat confused, Thomas asked Jesus where He was going and how to get there.

Jesus gave Thomas, and the rest of His disciples, a spiritual answer. Jesus proclaimed that the way to Heaven was through Him, by which He meant faith in His death, burial, and resurrection. Jesus proclaimed Himself to be the Truth, by which He meant that spiritual truth happens to be of far greater importance than any material truth. Only Jesus can be the entirety of spiritual truth. Only spiritual truth can provide all the answers to the questions that humans need to know. Science can only supply answers to material questions.

Jesus also proclaimed Himself to be the Life. God is Life itself, and only God can create life. Everything God creates can only be eternal. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8. God created man in His image, and that life can only be forever alive. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38. God gives to every human a spirit which is consciousness, and part of that consciousness is consciousness of Him. Every human demonstrates that fact because every human worships something. Materialist atheists worship their ideology or their political leaders. Every human looks to an otherworldly solution to their predicament. Even the communists believe in a future utopia created by humans. Even the nihilists believe that death is the cure for the meaninglessness and suffering of life. Romans 1:18-23.

When Jesus taught that no man can come to the Father except through Him, His teaching had to agree with the rest of scripture. Jesus did not say, and He did not mean, that those who fail to believe in Him will be lost from God forever. Jesus meant that those who repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh will be accepted by His Father, and they will not be able to come to His Father through any form of religion or their own good works. No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) teaches that if any person fails to believe in Christ until their physical death, then that person will be lost from God forever. In fact, Christ taught that if those who are dead believe in Him, He will restore them to life. John 11:25. Scripture after scripture in the entire Bible (KJB) teaches that all that God creates can only be eternal, and that in the end of the world God will purge all sin and evil from His entire creation, and He will reconcile and recreate His entire, cleansed creation including all living humans. Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Colossians 1:15-23; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29. God knows exactly how to cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will so that He can resurrect and recreate them with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.