I received a YouTube video recently from a fundamentalist corner of Christianity. The speaker said something like this: “If Jesus is credible, then all religions besides Christianity are false. If you don’t believe that, then you’re calling Jesus a liar.”
It’s a neat little trap. A tight binary. Believe in exclusivity or you reject Christ.
The problem with this interpretation is its assumption. It’s a very shallow reading of a very deep text.
The so-called “narrow path” is not something you find by writing off billions of non-Christian people. If anything, refusing to look beyond your own self-imposed limits is the widest, most comfortable path of all.
The mainstream Christian path is not narrow at all
There is nothing “narrow” about taking the largest religion in the world and assuming that everyone else is automatically wrong. It is narrow-minded, yes, but narrow-mindedness is not the same thing as the narrow path. The narrow path and narrow-mindedness are opposites, not synonyms.
Simply declaring that “Only Christians get into Heaven” is not evidence of walking a narrow path. This interpretation requires no wrestling, no discernment, no inner-transformation, and no humility. Jesus never defined the narrow path as choosing a label or joining a particular club. That’s not a narrow path. It’s the majority path.
He defined it by how one lives: forgiveness, compassion, truth, humility. Inner transformation, dying to ego, and living in alignment with the divine will. These are narrow because they’re difficult, not because they’re exclusive. Exclusivity is comfortable, and the narrow path is anything but. Anyone can say, “My religion is the right one.” Far fewer people can live in a way that actually resembles Jesus.
“No one comes to the Father except through me” does not mean only Christians get to God.
This line, in John 14:6, is often wielded like a weapon. But let’s take it in context. Jesus wasn’t speaking English. He wasn’t working within a modern framework. And he wasn’t talking about a religion that wouldn’t be invented for another 300 years.
The phrase “through me” literally means “through what I embody,” or “through my way,” or “my pattern,” or, “my example.” He’s not talking about making a doctrinal confession in order to secure a religious membership. He’s talking about Logos — the divine pattern through which God expresses Himself.
What he’s saying is, “Everyone who reaches the Father does so by passing through the Logos.”
He’s not saying, “Only Christians get to Heaven,” or, “Only people who declare to follow my name.” He’s not saying, “All other religions are false.”
He’s saying, “Logos is the blueprint through which every soul returns to the source.”
Christ is the Logos incarnate
Logos is not a person. Nor is it a religion.
It’s a pattern: the underlying structure of the cosmos. It’s divine intelligence; the blueprint of creation; the sacred reason woven into everything. Christ is the supreme human incarnation of Logos. The prime example of the pattern made flesh.
So when Jesus says to get to God “through me,” He’s saying, “Through the pattern of divine reality that I embody perfectly.”
He’s not saying, “Only if you belong to the future religion called ‘Christianity’ will you get to Heaven.” Jesus left us a living way, not a rotting dogma.
You don’t need to “worship Jesus” to walk in the pattern of Christ
There are Buddhists who live closer to the heart of Jesus than many Christians. There are Muslims whose compassion mirrors His teachings far more than those who use His name as a weapon. There are Jews, Hindus, atheists, mystics, and indigenous elders whose lives radiate truth, humility, and love, and are more in tune with God’s will than those who are filled with fear and hatred of the outsider.
There are those who walk in alignment with the Logos, even if they’ve never spoken the name of “Jesus.”
The point of John 14:6 is not “You must declare Jesus as Lord.” The point is, “You must live in the light of the divine pattern.” Some people who claim to worship Christ miss this point entirely. And some who’ve never heard of Him live it thoroughly.
Christ is bigger than Christianity
Christ is the way, the truth, and the light because He permeates the entire creation — not because He excludes people arbitrarily.
Anyone who arrives at the Father does so through the Christ-given pattern of embodied Logos. Through love, compassion for all life, transformation of the self, and alignment with the higher will. Christ is a state of higher consciousness which is attained through alignment with the Logos. He’s not a secret password that you say to the gatekeeper to get into Heaven.
The narrow path leads to transformation
The narrow path is walked by those who heal rather than hurt. The ones who unite rather than divide. The ones who choose truth over comfort, who embody love for the outsider, and who live in the Logos. These things are transformative, not degenerative. These people may be Christian, or Jewish, or Muslim. Or Buddhist, or Hindu, or New Age, or Agnostic, or unnamed, or unlabeled, or other.
The names we use as labels are for us, not for God. He recognises those who walk in accordance with His divine will, regardless of what they call themselves.
The first and last Word
Jesus didn’t come into the world to shrink God into a narrow-minded dogma. He came to open the way to the divine pattern — the Logos — that flows through all creation and calls every soul home.
The narrow path is not narrow because it excludes others. It’s narrow because it requires the transformation of the one who walks it. And transformation has no religion.
