What Is So Great About Christianity?
Another way to ask the question would be, “What Sets
Christianity Apart From Other Belief Systems?”
One does not have to listen long in the arena of religious
discussion to hear the idea that all religions lead to God. If such is so then certainly there must be
some common elements to all religions—common beyond there being some
acknowledgment of there being a higher being/power. However, such seems not to be so, at least
not to any great degree.
Contemporary Religious Pluralism seems to embrace the notion
that everyone from the Wiccan Priestess to the “Christian” minister should be included. Problem is, today the notion among many is
that this inclusion must be based upon commonly shared belief. Immediately one can see that such belief as
is shared would be severely limited at best and extremely scarce at worse.
So since there are these differences why would one choose the
Christianity which is based upon the Judeo-Christian Scriptures over other
belief systems? Then of course there is
the question of what makes Christianity unique?
Among the several answers are the following reasons.
First, within the Judeo-Christian Scripture there are a
great number of incidents of future telling.
It is well beyond any laws of probability that they would come to pass
purely through happenstance. In other
words, sometimes hundreds of years before an event, the Scriptures tell of that
event. Then we find that it came to pass
just as foretold. Can that claim be made
about other Holy books?
Second, the Judeo-Christians Scripture tells the reader that
God would come and live among men. So it
was that in perfect fulfillment of prophecy, Jesus Christ was born, lived, was
crucified, and ascended back to the Heavenly Father. Can the claim of Emmanuel (God with us) be
made about other god’s?
Third, the teaching of Judeo-Christian Scripture is clear
that the one who would become a Christian does not work his way to some sort of work-salvation. Such good works as one performs are the
result of salvation. Can others make
that claim?What then has been the outcome of those who have lived out their conversion to the Christian faith? There are many. Among them are, the American Red Cross, the education of children, mercy hospitals, the abolition of Slavery, the rescue of abandoned children, and much, much more.
For those blinded by bias and a secular skepticism, there is
not, nor will there ever be enough evidence to overcome their assumptions about
Christianity. For this kind of thinking
Christianity will always fall short. However,
for the genuine seeker of truth, there is enough evidence to suggest that a
lived out Christianity based upon the Judeo-Christian Scriptures is well worth
a serious look.
