Did Jesus say that there is absolutely no other way?
John 10:25B-30
“…The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one."
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Do you think that God would have favorite children? Or that he would “save” some but not to others?
I would not say that He has favorites. At least not with the connotation that “having favorites” has. Central to the Bible’s teaching is that Jesus came to save sinners from the justified punishment for their disobedience to God. God is a just judge and therefore must judge sin but He loved us so that He provided a means for people to establish a right relationship with Him, belief in Jesus Christ due His death and resurrection. This is very clearly spoken of here:
John3:16-18
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.”
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