The Big Questions About ChristianitySample

What’s so special about Christianity?

Christianity has something special going for it. At the end of the day, I’m not a Christian for no reason.

Many people say all religions are basically the same. While I respect those who choose to believe differently from me or believe nothing at all, I don’t think all religions are the same.

The way I see it, the Christian faith stands far apart from any other faith system or philosophy. There is simply nothing like it that human beings have ever put their minds to.

In most other religions, humans have to go up to a god through their efforts. When you consider the ancient religious traditions, they all involved some way of climbing to the heavens to be with the gods. Humans had to get where the gods lived through whatever means.

Christianity teaches us that God came down to us, became a man, and lived among us in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

In many other religions, a god only reveals the way to salvation, and then followers have to find the way and fulfill the requirements to be saved. They have to discover the way themselves and then do the right things to be saved.

But Christianity is entirely different. The Christian faith teaches God himself has opened the way for us to be saved and fulfilled the requirements on our behalf. We simply receive salvation as a gift. Because we have been saved, we live out our lives in gratitude, following Jesus.

Christianity teaches that God’s love is so great that God’s Son, Jesus Christ, gave his life so we might be saved. Through the resurrection of Jesus, God has overcome even death for us.

Other faith systems have a very different understanding of love. They see love more like a business transaction. If you behave yourself and perform in the way that pleases a god, he will love and forgive you. Otherwise, he will reject you. It’s a conditional kind of love. Christianity teaches that God loves us with an unconditional, no-strings-attached kind of love.

Other faith systems and philosophies make humans the center of their belief. Religion ultimately ends up being about behaviors, obedience, the performance of rituals, beliefs, etc.

However, Christianity makes Jesus Christ the heart of everything. Even more than that, the very center of Christianity is the great saving act of Jesus in dying and rising for your salvation. Everything we do is simply a response to the Cross.

That’s Christianity, and that’s why Christianity is special.

– Eliezer Gonzalez