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What is? Be specific.
Salvation, Faith, Godliness, Right Christian Living
And how is any of that "mutually exclusive according to Jesus", with anything I said?
Salvation:
John 14:6
6 Jesus answered, “I am(A) the way(B) and the truth(C) and the life.(D) No one comes to the Father except through me.(E)
Acts 4:12
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Salvation is not the same as enlightenment.
Even Buddah will be judged for his sins if he does not accept Jesus Christ.
The tree of knowledge, the fruit, was stolen. All those concepts are considered the forbidden knowledge and are alternative paths to enlightenment/communion with God, but those paths don't forgive the sin that keeps people out of heaven.
In most cases in fact, englightenment is more about accepting and coexisting with evil rather than trying to confront and destroy it. Being enlightened is like being lukewarm so to speak. It's a method of talking around good/evil being part of the same thing, symbolized with the checkered floor in Masonic temples.
Revelation 3:16
So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Lukewarm
That's what I implied when I said "uniqueness" of Christ/Christianity.
I never said "salvation" was attainable through other means or entities. Just that one can incorporate them into the whole cosmic landscape that includes Jesus without discounting his words and the gospels.
The bible clearly elaborates other aspects of the spiritual world which one can interact with. Various hierarchies of elohim which includes numerous categories of benevolent non-human spiritual beings; form cherubim and seraphim to archangels and the Hosts of Heaven, or the Four Living Creatures who are covered in eyes.
And interfacing with these beings through prayer and altered states is also affirmed by the myriad Old and New Testament examples of prophesy and encounters made during dreams and fasting.
So you are clearly mistaken. Nothing I said is mutually exclusive with Christ's teachings.