It has been a while since I've had to post one of the questions that we've been looking at with the teens on a Friday night (mainly due to the last few weeks being mash-ups of stuff I've already posted). This week... What makes Christianity unique compared to all the other religions?
At the core of every religion is the answer to five fundamental questions.
What is God like?
How did everything begin?
How did the world get to be in the state that it is now?
What happens once you die?
Why does suffering occur?
The thing that makes Christianity stand apart from the other religions is the answer to these questions being found in the person of Jesus.
No other belief system speaks of a God who cares enough for humanity to become incarnate and deal with the issue that divides God and humanity (namely sin).
Every other founder of religions has a recorded death, but Christians hold firm that Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection sets Jesus apart. Jesus defeats death in a way no one else has said they could.
Jesus shows that God personally knows what it is like to be human and is intimately aware of of what we go through, including the bad things in life.
The main thing that separates Christianity from any other religion is not a thing, but a who. Jesus is the core of Christianity and His life, teachings, death and resurrection make it unique.
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