Christianity IS The One True Religion

...and logically so!

One could write entire books on some of these points, but here's the basics condensed down to a post.

1) Let's establish the players. Christianity has Jesus Christ. Islam has Muhammad. Buddhism has Buddha. Hinduism I don't think has a central figure. Sikhism has Nanak. A bunch of other religious have a bunch of other guys. We'll sort the players into two groups for this post: Jesus, and the other guys.

2) Let's look at what Jesus claimed about himself. He claimed to be the son of God, fully God, one with the father, and the Messiah. You can choose not to believe this is true if you want, but let's agree that this is what he claimed about himself, whether you believe it or not. I think some folks would be getting into an argument here already, but Biblically, this is what he claimed.

I don't think the other guys claimed any of this.

3) Jesus backed up his claims with miracles that only God could perform. Often he would forgive people of their sins. That was a problem for some folks, because only God can forgive sins. Well, anyone can SAY "your sins are forgiven". That doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot. Why should you believe that person? Now what if that person was able to cure leprosy, cast out demons, and raise people from the dead, with eyewitnesses who wrote down what he did? I think that gives him a little more clout.

I don't think the other guys did any of that.

4) Jesus fulfilled prophecy and rose from the dead. There are lots of web sites detailing what prophecies Jesus fulfilled and what the odds are that someone could do so inadvertently, so we won't go into those here. Let's focus on the resurrection here. Now, that makes all the miracles pale in comparison. It also supports that whole Messiah claim pretty well.

I don't think the other guys did any of that.

Now, there are lots of arguments against the resurrection, but lets think about this logically.

Disciples of Jesus wrote down that they and many others saw him after the resurrection. There is no evidence of anyone disproving this and having a field day mocking the early Christians who's Messiah failed. Believers preached the gospel to many people who were converting by the thousands, despite being hated and persecuted by others. Eventually many of them were put to death for it. They had no external motivation for doing this.

So, if Jesus DIDN'T rise from the dead:

1) Why would His followers falsely claim to have seem Him? How would you feel if it happened? Really? I'd be like "Man, I got suckered, I guess he WASN'T the Messiah. Crap." I sure wouldn't be out there risking my neck to perpetuate a lie when there is absolutely no good reason for me to do so.

2) Why did so many convert to Christianity so quickly? Why did PAUL convert?

3) Why was there no one who hated the Christians stepping up to provide evidence that debunks the resurrection?

So if Jesus really DIDN'T rise from the dead, then instead a bunch of ordinary guys got together and pulled the biggest scam in history. They somehow stole his body that was under guard. They wrote books that showed a fake Messiah fulfilled prophecy. They convinced thousands and thousands of people to believe something they knew was a lie. They all suffered torture, and in many cases DEATH, for this movement that they knew was a fraud. They gave a large part of their lives to do this without any kind of external reward for it. Yeah, right! NOBODY is going to be tortured and killing for something they KNOW is a lie. The ONLY LOGICAL conclusion is that Jesus in fact DID rise from the dead.

To quote Sir Lionel Luckhoo who spent three years pouring over the evidence: "The evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.”

The only problem for a lot of people when weighing the evidence is that they are already biased in their commitment to explaining everything by natural causes and natural causes only. That's not objectivity, it's blind faith. I instead put my faith in Jesus Christ, and that faith is NOT blind.