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Christianity: What Makes It Different From Other Religions?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - John 14:16

What makes a Christian different from other people of different religion?

Many times People are been told to come to Jesus and accept Him and become a Christian (I.e Christ Like). 

But to everyone out there who is wondering what is the different between a Christian and other Religions... some do wonder and ask if we ain't serving the same God. Muslim, Buddhist, Ifa, Hindu etc....

Some even ask what happen to those that doesn't believe in God (the atheists).

While many of the world’s religions have similar features, biblical Christianity differs radically from them all. There are a handful of things which put it in a category of its own. Without understanding these differences, we cannot properly comprehend Christianity.

The First Difference:
Christianity is more than a religion, it is a way of life. Christianity is not really a religion that was started. Rather, it is the God and Creator of the universe continuing his self-crafted plan of providing the way for fallen humanity to be reconciled into permanently right relationship with him. Christianity simply observes the progressive outworking of God’s merciful, saving plan to his human creatures in the Person of Jesus Christ. As Christ stepped on the scene over 2000 years ago, it was not so much the beginning of a new religion as it was the fulfillment of God’s redemptive plans. Those plans did not happen to start with a Jewish rabbi and his obscure followers. Christianity is not the product of a dynamic social-revolutionary in the land of Israel. Rather, it is the product of God’s sovereign orchestration of time and history for the redemption of an unworthy people through the God-man, Jesus Christ. When God incarnate arrives, he is methodically continuing what he founded: the plan of redemption. And it’s a plan which started a long, long time ago; to be precise, prior to the existence of any human being.

A Christian isn't a Christian because he/she is born into a Christian family...

(To be continued)

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  1. Gospel M19 October 2017 at 11:15

    Keep up the good work bro, and may God give you more insight on his word.Amen

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