Originally Posted by BarryC
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life..."

Notice it doesn't say "like" or "similar to". No simile there.
He is.
So, if a man unacquainted with the historical Jesus seeks the way, the truth & the life, he is seeking Jesus.


Bingo!!!

BarryC has encapsulated the concept that has been elucidated at great length by Irenaeus, Jerome, and Aquinas, not to mention more recent leading lights such as G.K.Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.


"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars