“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” This was the startling remark attributed to Jesus by John in our Gospel reading of the 5th Sunday of Easter (14:1-12) of a few weeks ago. It has been a passage used by many claiming that salvation and eternal life only are possible through Jesus Christ , and every time we hear it read it’s hard not to reach this conclusion. Yes, he is the way, the truth, and the life for those who embrace Jesus and Christianity, but for millions of others be they Jews, Muslims, or whatever, salvation and eternal life is offered through a simple formula shared by all faiths. Consider this passage from Matthew (25:31-46): “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his righ