Did Christ imply all religions can lead to God?

I'm not sure you can draw this inference from this particular scripture passage. But I would draw such inference from the passage in II Corinthians 3 v6: St Paul writing about the vital distinction between letter and spirit:

"[God] who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."

If we judge another to be lost, or on the wrong path SOLELY on the grounds that he does not use the same names and terms that we use as Christians to describe spiritual truths, or the character of the God we worship, we are subscribing to the letter, which, St Paul says, "killeth". It is the spirit that "giveth life", and it is by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, that a Christian is enabled to identify the spirit that rules another man whose allegiance is to the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish or other faith.

Because just as there are those in the visible organisation that we know as the Christian church who call themselves Christians but deny their claim by the lives they lead, so there are those in other religious organisations who call themselves and the God they worship by a name other than Jesus Christ yet evidence in their lives that they follow the spirit of Christ. "By their fruits ye shall know them."

If we accept at face value, without question or investigation, the labels that are applied to others and which they themselves use as saying everything about them, we are guilty of judging them as lost, heretical or apostate. In effect, we are committing the serious offence against the Spirit that St Paul here describes as killing. We are judging them without consideration of anything other than the word they apply to themselves - and the letter, St Paul says, "killeth".

But if we see them as, like ourselves, created in the image of God, we will not immediately assume that Christ's spirit cannot animate someone who has been brought up a Hindu, Buddhist or Jew. We are arrogant indeed if we do that. Seeing them as others whom God has created, we dare not assume them lost and damned. For how can we think that the Almighty is incapable of touching the hearts of those whose tradition and therefore religion uses other terms than our own?

This is by no means to suggest that all in other religions are on the right path, but we can't assume that about those in our own Christian faith, either. In plain fact, we have no right to decide and no means of doing so who is and who is not lost or saved. "Judge not, that ye be not judged".

Which doesn't mean, of course, that it is impossible to tell if someone is on the wrong path, any more than we can know without shadow of doubt that another, now clearly walking with God, will continue so to the end of his life. It is God who judges, God who saves, and our business is to mind our own path, not to assess the final destiny of our fellow men.

And THAT doesn't mean we have no concern for them! But to judge them lost simply because of the name they use for God and the name of the religion of which they are adherents is hubris of the worst kind.

wimsey

No. I don't think HE is implying that. HE also says the HE is the way , the truth , and the life. And that no man comes to the Father except through HIM (Jesus). So for those religions that do not hold that Jesus is the Son of GOD and that we are lost and in need of a Savior , and that only through HIS death, and Resurrection do we have any hope...those are false religions and will not get the people who follow them anywhere but hell.

I am not saying that there are only one or two religions that are right, but just that they are not right if they do not hold Jesus as the center of their belief system.

No. Jesus said in verse 22 that the woman worshipped what she did not know but those who know God worship the Father is spirit and truth.

In short no.

If you do not have the spirit of GOD in you, you cannot worship GOD the correct way.

After pentecost this is how GOD must be worshipped.

That is the spirit that you just worship GOD in.

Contrast this verse with.

"I am the (only) way, the (only) truth and the (only) life.

No man comes to the Father but through me.

*(only) for ephasis here not in the text literally but strongly suggested by context and subject matter.

what are u babbling abt? jesus said i am the way, the only way. those who see me see the father. u come to father only thru me etc.

samarias were corrupted jews so to speak, for lack of time i do not want to explain.

still they were worshipping theJehovah and Jesus came unto israel and the lost sheep first and then to all the mankind. jesus was saying that ritual worship as in the mount of jerusalem or mountain of jacob was coming to end and the time has come when all believers wud worship Jehovah in spirit and truth. God ws apprachable to all who wud put their trust in jesus and such people wud worship God in spirit and in truth.

jesus never said all religions including jews or samarians wud lead to God. not even chriatianity. he said to follow him.

Actually Jesus stated the opposite where he said broad is the way and wide is the gate that leads to destruction and many go therein, while strait is the gate and narrow the way that leads to salvation and few find it. He also prophecies that at the judgment day "Many shall say Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in thy name" and they will be told " I know ye not, depart from me ye workers of iniquity".

I am sure God wants all to accept the truth and be saved, but He knows that only a few will truly accept Him and "Keep His sayings". Isaiah prophecied that they shall worship God with their lips but their hearts shall be far from Him.

Jesus did not implied to any religion at all, but to the way of wordshiping. It is the same representation of today's world, this mountain, (that religion) or Jerusalem (the wall) they wordship who they do not know (many that is),

But the time was coming when God would put his spirit in us and then we would know him and wordship him in spirit and in truth.

And what is true Religion?

James 1:22-27

{26} If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. {27} Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

No. The answer is Christ is the way, the truth and the life and no one goes to the Father (God) except through Him (Christ). He is not interested in religion. He is interested in us becoming like Him. That we might be transformed into His image(likeness).

. Doesn't everyone who practices a religion believe it is the right one? Who would practice a religion they didn't believe was right? That being said: Many of the practices of the Churches in Christendom, who apparently believe that they're right, don't come close to teaching what Jesus and his Apostles taught. .

No! Since most religions teach conflicting doctrines, can they all be serving God with spirit and truth? (John 4:24) No. Eph. 4:15 says: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism."