Comparative Religion Why I’m Christian and not Another Faith

I stay mostly in Christianity. I’ve read enough of the Koran to not really believe in it. The second Surah kind of tells you to believe in the Covenant given to Israel by God, which was through Jacob and Isaac, and not Ishmael. So, it kind of refutes itself. And Hinduism is kind of cartoonish. It doesn’t have flesh. And Shintoism kind of raises good and bad at equal levels.

So, I’m concretely Christian. But, what I’ve read of Christianity, are the Old and New Testaments, many hymnals, many commentaries on the Bible, many church histories told through the martyrs, the Old and New Apocrypha, I’ve looked at historical evidence corroborating the scripture, many systematic theologies, I’ve looked at a lot of different things.

And I’ve come away with two impressions.

My study of other religions, shows them shallow, and in some regard unjust. And Christianity has none of that. And it’s a very coherent internal tautology, that shows a fulfillment of the Old Testament in the New. And it’s a comprehensive moral philosophy; its claims are backed by historical evidence, and Jesus is more of a compelling character than Vishnu, or Buddha, or Muhammad, or Confucius. I’d just say if it weren’t for the man Jesus, I’d be an Atheist. For sure. If it weren’t for Jesus, and what He did, and what He taught, and what He demonstrated, and the provenance of people dying who believed in it… I’d say I wouldn’t be a Christian if there weren’t that historical provenance to the religion, nor the founder Himself.

I see nothing compelling in Muhammad, except a warlord who wanted to galvanize his people. Hinduism is a lot like a cartoon, and it’s got bad ideas. The bad ideas in the Old Testament, are corrected in the New. And they’re prophesied to be so in Ezekiel. So, the worst of the religion—those pesky Old Testament verses that everyone gets stuck on—is fulfilled in Christ’s second Coming, when He destroys the wicked of the Earth, and rebukes the nations with a Rod of iron. We’re not to judge anymore, Israel failed to bring judgment to the world, so we’re waiting on Christ now, to bring judgment to the world. So, all those violent verses in the Old Testament, are forgiven in us through Christ, so we simply believe, and are made righteous through Him, and a desire to be holy.