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Christianity: What Makes It Different From Other Religions? Part 2

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
Continuation on the difference between Christianity and other World religion, what set Christianity apart and how do one it's the true religion...
2. The Creator God does the work of conversion in biblical Christianity.
Biblical Christianity cannot be spread by external force. Whether political force, violent force, economic or social force – not one person in history has ever experienced conversion by the power of man.
Various misinformed individuals have and will argue that Christianity has spread by force at times in history: they may cite the rule of Constantine, the Crusades, Conquistadors, or the Inquisitions. More contemporarily, one might cite the external force of social and cultural pressure in decadent places like the United States. Residual methods from, for example, the Second Great Awakening, involve a form of social and emotional coercion. But genuine converts cannot be manufactured.
One good thing about Christianity is it's a personal thing. No One can force it in you. When you are saved, deep inside of you, you will know. Someone might preach to you and you just listen but days later, you find out deep within you, you're feeling restless. Your Spirit man is restless... more like a big vacuum that needs to be filled. This is not just ordinary. It's not something you experience on a normal day. I have heard so many converts stories: the common thing in them all is this; no human could have done this... not even one.
That is what scientist can't fathom at that, the wonder working power of the Holy Spirit, they can't see it physically but the can deduce something has change. 
And this is not to say that people are not human instruments in conversion. They are. But to be sure, they are precisely that; instruments. God does the converting.
Most of the world religions feature common themes within. A deity is worshiped, a problem with the world is observed, and a solution proposed. While these features are present in biblical Christianity, the differences between it and other religions are vast. Biblical Christianity has its founding, salvation work, and conversion in the Creator God.
In Christianity, it's a personal approach between you and God. Everyone can approach God, scientist, atheist, even people of other religion can approach the Throne of Grace...
I continue on this series tomorrow, till then do have a wonderful time. Top of the Morning to You.

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