Try asking nonbelievers, “If Jesus is not the only way to salvation, why, then, did He have to die?” You’ll likely draw blank stares or create tied tongues. But until one understands the answer to that question, one will not see the reasonableness of Jesus’s “I am the way” claim. That answer must include both of these nonnegotiable truths of the gospel: God is more holy than we think. We are more sinful than we think.
