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During a conference on comparative religions, religious experts were debating what doctrine, if any, was unique to Christianity. Upon entering the room, C S Lewis learned of the debate and responded: “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.”
Many people feel that the message of Christianity should be relegated to the fiction shelf of life, that it is really just like the 'fairies at the bottom of the garden'.
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is critical to the validity of Christianity. If He did rise from the dead on the third day His claims to be the Son of God are vindicated.
As I stood in the shop queue one evening waiting to be served, I got talking to the woman behind me. She asked what my job was, and I told her I taught people about the Bible. At this point she looked at me as though I had just sprouted another head.
When a sports pundit says that a team must “redeem” themselves, straight away we understand they must make amends for a recent underperformance to rescue their reputation, or hopes of winning.
“The safety card is in your seat pocket. Please study it carefully.” That’s how the little announcement went just before the plane took off, and as usual, nobody bothered, no one cared. However, during the flight there was a problem.
10 Questions about Christianity
When it comes to God and Christianity do you have questions? Nearly everyone does.
Here you will find ten questions asked about the Christian faith, and responses to each of them. There are three levels of answers: the return question (which helps get to the heart of the issue), a quick answer (which is about all the time usually spent discussing these questions) and more details (often with suggested sources if you want to go deeper on that issue).
If there is a God, wouldn’t it make sense that there is at least one absolute, and one absolute source of morality; namely the will of God?
Have you ever compared founders of different religions? If you did you would find that Jesus Christ is totally different.
If you’re implying that the a Christian is wrong in asserting that their way is right, then aren’t you doing the very thing that you are accusing Christians of doing (asserting you are right and others are wrong)? Doesn’t it make more sense to compare world views to see which makes the most sense out of life as we experience it?
Do you think there is anyone in the world who is not a hypocrite to at least some degree? The real question is how come everyone seems to be hypocritical at times?
Are you aware of the fact that many of the world’s greatest scientists are Christians and that many of the famous scientists of history are also Christians?
Now a Question for You!
Hopefully you have found some of these questions and answers helpful.
If Christianity is true, the real stumbling block to faith is none of these questions. Rather, the thing that really keeps us from embracing Christ as Saviour is our unwillingness to admit that we need Him.
God loves us (John 3:16) and created us to know Him personally (John 17:3). Our stubborn self will has caused each of us to have gone our own way and are separated from God. The Bible says that all of us are sinful (Rom. 3:23) and the penalty of sin is death – separation from God (Rom. 6:23). Left to our own, we are destined for an eternal existence apart from God, enduring His judgement for our sin (2 Thes. 1:9).
The good news is that God’s love for us is so great that He sent His own son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in order to pay the penalty for sin (Romans 5:8). As a result of His death and resurrection there is a way back to God through repentance and faith.
Jesus Christ offers the only way for us to be forgiven and come into a relationship with God (John 14:6). The Bible is clear, we cannot get there by our own works (Ephesians 2:8,9).
The big question is, “Are you ready to surrender to God, repent of your sin and trust Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?