In Matthew 11:27, Jesus said: "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him" (NASB). Jesus meant that He and God are one and the only way for a person to come into relationship with God [the Father] is through Jesus [the Son]. The apostles understood this to be His meaning, for in Acts 4:12, Peter says of Jesus Christ, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
This truth eliminates the possibility that Jesus might be some vague manifestation of an impersonal God. It eliminates the possibility that He could be classified merely as a "good and wise man" who walked the face of the earth and loved people. It shows that Jesus is either the true God, on whom we must focus, or He was a colossal fraud, and the countless thousands who have suffered and died for Him down through the millennia made a horrible and tragic mistake.
-- Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton in “More Jesus, Less Religion”
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