Many people believe that all religions are the same. Essentially good people go to heaven, bad people go to hell, and all religions worship the same God. There is even a story about blind people touching an elephant, and trying to guess what it is. One blind man touches the leg, and calls it a tree. One says the side of elephant is a wall. It keeps going with the different limbs of the animal. In conclusion all religions may sounds different, but they are all part of the same God.
In reality all the blind men got it wrong. This is extremely dangerous as the guy thinks he is next to a nice sturdy wall. Not realizing the elephant is strong, and mobile. For one to dedicate their life to a religion they need to be correct.
All religions are actually different. Not all believe there is one God. Some don't believe in God, while others believe in many Gods. Those are pretty fundamentally different from each other. What might be considered "good" in one religion could be considered "bad" in another.
It would be impossible for me to go through every single religion as there are thousands. I can however, simplify all these religions to about 12 world religions. We can do this, because essentially all religions belief structures goes back to these 12. However, the many religions is based on how the people operate these belief structures. To simplify it even more we can go to 5 world religions. These are the most popular, and most well known for the majority of people.
Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. These are the most popular/well known religions. All have similarities, but are fundamentally different. One however, stands out from the rest. To see the big difference we need to look at their religious leaders.
Christianity actually stands out for the thing they proclaim about their leader. No other religion say the same thing. In fact it is so crucial to their religion that if someone doesn't proclaim it, it means they are either A not a Christian, or B not a Christian.
If you come to a fork in the road, and you're looking for the correct way to go. There are two people at the fork. One is dead. They other is alive. Who do you ask?
Christianity proclaims that Jesus is alive. Yes even after 2000 years they are still proclaiming that Jesus is alive. This is quite a bold statement. If it turns out to be true then how does it affect your life?
What do you think?
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Is Jesus alive? Where is your evidence? You sure He is dead? Where is your evidence?
