Jesus’s words are correct, but you don’t understand them.
People think of following Jesus or Buddha as following a person down a path to a destination. It doesn’t work that way.
Spiritual growth expands your soul. When Jesus went through His Dark Night of the Soul experience in the wilderness, He stated, “My Father and I are One.” When Buddha achieved the same state,he said, “I am One with Everything. “
Read John 14. Jesus speaks of God being in Him and He in God. The further down the same scripture, He says, “ If I am in you (this is communion) then my Father that is in me is also in you.”
Use the model of Russian Nesting Dolls where God is the big outer doll and we are the little doll in the middle. You can not become “One” with the big outer doll without going through all the other dolls between you and God.
Jesus is my Savior and I experience Him daily. That being said, my Father’s mansion has many rooms. I will not ever debate which teacher is at which level as we exist in all of them.
If you hold this concept. It changes the understanding of the New Testament teachings to a personal application and experience.
The New Testament is very accurate. Problem is. Most say “Jesus is my Savior” and treat Jesus like a lifeguard that rescues you when you are drowning (dying). Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher. He was/is teaching us how to grow spiritually.
Problem is, people don’t follow His teachings and grow spiritually. In John 14 Jesus also says, “The things that I do and even more, you too shall do in my name.” The problem is that people don’t follow His teachings and learn the “Way” to become One with Him and Our Father.
Incidentally, the “being raised up” which many think of as the rapture is also this same expansion of the soul as it is raised to a higher operating frequency allowing perception directly with consciousness beyond the physical body.
Most people belong to the “Flat Consciousness Society” and only get one channel. There are many.
Our perception of reality is a function of the frequency of consciousness from which we view it.
Christ died on the Cross as a Perfect Sacrifice for humanity towards God the Father to pay the price of sin, even original sin.
Without faith in what He provided at the Cross, there is no salvation.
He didn’t die to provide a different spiritual frequency.
God the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in their human spirit. He only indwells where there is a clean perfection such as the regenerate human spirit only provided by God to the believer through faith in Christ.
If one is being guided spiritually to grow independent of faith in what Christ provided on the Cross, such as with Buddhism, then it is not God guiding , but a false spirit.
If you ever meet your Zen buddy again he will say to you: “He tried to tell you!”
Continuing the thought from Luke 16 . . .
“Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead” (Luke 16:29-31).