"I am the way, the truth and the life!": is that statement exclusive or inclusive?

Joh 14:5-7  Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?"  (6)  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  (7)  If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."
Having been raised in a Fundamentalist Baptist family in the 1950's, I was given a view of what John 14:6 meant. It most definitely meant that salvation and the way to God was exclusively by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. There was a formula for salvation at that time. Hear a sermon warning of sin and hell; raising your hand to accept Jesus as your Savior; going down to the front of the church at the altar call; being prayed for, and saying a prayer asking Jesus into your heart. Boom! You were saved. I was quite fortunate in my youth as I had a pastor that believed that once a person was saved they were always saved so that negated the necessity of going down every week to get saved all over again. But, being the sinful young boy that I was age eleven forward, my conscience would build up and get the best of me and by the space of a month or two, I would have to raise my hand and go back to the front of the church at altar call to re-dedicate my life to Jesus.

Being young, and believing my pastor, I was not tormented as some who went to churches that believed sinning could make you lose your salvation. Those poor souls were in constant fear and torment. I'm quite sure that many of them could not wait until Sunday to get down to the front of the church and get saved afresh. Yes indeed, evangelical funadmentalism has done a lot of damage and quite frankly continues to do so even today.

But, is that really what John 14:6 means? Is it exclusive? I have since realized that it is not. First off, lets look at the gospel that this verse is a part of. It is the Gospel According to John. John begins his Gospel with the following statement, "John 1:1-5  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  (2)  He was in the beginning with God.  (3)  All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being  (4)  in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.  (5)  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it." This is widely known as the doctrine of the Logos. John states unequivocally that Jesus is the Logos, the creator. The Logos is the creative voice of the source. In my view this changes the meaning of John 14:6. There is but one creator, and there is but one source. Jesus the Logos introduced the concept that "the source," God is a loving Father. It is reasonable to conclude that when Jesus makes this statement to his disciples he assumes and they know that he means the Logos. It also follows that he alone is the one to understand that "The Source" is a loving Father.

This means that the entry into the source is the Logos. Now fast forward to 2020. Physicists now know that the universe is composed of the matter we see, but likewise, and much more abundant is matter that we cannot see. That is not where it stops. The universe is likewise filled with an energy that we cannot see that is expanding the universe by continual creation. But wait, there's more! This invisible energy and matter is conscious. I am not making this up. The bulk of the space in the universe is filled with dark matter and dark energy. It is surely the creative source. When Paul wrote about heavenly places in Christ Jesus, he no doubt was referring to this source.

Heaven is not somewhere outside of creation. It is at the center of creation. The Logos is currently in that creative conscious region of the universe and by the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of the Logos, we are there also. That is what Paul meant when he wrote we are seated in heavenly places in and with Christ Jesus. Peter said we are partakers of the divine nature. That is simply another way of stating the same thing. It is recorded that we are children of the light. John stated that in the Logos was life and the life was the light of humanity. However, it is not an exclusive club. There are 7.8 billion humans on this planet at any given time. Many are dying and more are being born, so the 7.8 billion is much more when you consider that. Only 2.3 billion are Christian which leaves 5.4 billion who are not.

Yet, the Prophet Joel said that a time would come when God would pour out his Spirit on ALL flesh and Peter declared that the time was Pentecost in the first century CE fifty three days after the resurrection of Jesus, the Logos. What Spirit was poured out? It was the Spirit of the Logos. Paul stated the following. Rom 5:18  Therefore just as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. The question becomes, how many will acknowledge and believe who they really are in the spirit?

Heavenly places, the creative source of the universe, is available to all who will see, the way, the truth, and the life. It is not about exclusive entrance to a place called heaven outside of the world. It is an entrance to the eternal present now. It is an entrance to the eternal. It is spirit and it is energy. Spirit = Energy. While I admit that we all only know in part, I am confident that this is what Jesus was talking about when he said, I AM the way, I AM the truth, I AM the life, and no one is excluded.