ways of salvation for their worshippers, but since there is only one, the possibility is excluded.55 Once that principle was established, Paul’s next step was to explain how we gain access to the one God. The answer to that was that we can do this only in and through Jesus Christ. What Paul was saying here is what Jesus told his disciples in Jn 14:6: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.’ Great play has been made of the word ‘mediator’, but everyone agrees