Said And Meant

While listening to the local “Christian” radio station, I heard, “Everything Jesus said He meant, and He meant everything He said.” I totally agree with the speaker on this point. Jesus’ teachings are 100% trustworthy, as laid out for us in the Bible. There’s no reason to look to man’s understanding of the Scriptures, for what Jesus said/meant by them. Then there’s the Anthanasian Creeds [false] method of salvation and why those lifting it up should never say things like, “Everything Jesus said He meant, and He meant everything He said.” You can’t lift up [unless one believes the Son is God one cannot be saved] the Anthanasian Creeds way, without reducing that which Jesus said and meant in the first century, which is available for all to see in the Bible. Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” John 20:17 (NKJV) The only one that can rightfully say, “No” Jesus’ God and Father and their God and Father [are not] one and the same, are those rejecting Jesus altogether. In John 20:17 “Jesus said,” “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” I have a hard time believing that Jesus didn’t say/mean, His God and Father and my God and Father are one and the same in John 20:17. As one having no desire to reject anything Jesus said or did, as laid out for us in the Bible, I say John 20:17 stands well enough on its own [trustworthy as is].