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Running Head: WHAT MAKES CHRISTIANITY UNIQUE

What makes Christianity Unique





Courtney Goodrich








World Religions
Gods Bible School
December 7, 2013




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Grace
One of the most defining aspects of Christianity is the grace that is extended. In other
religions we see the law enforced. Take for example Islam. In their religion if you turn your
back on Allah you deserve immediate death and this religion does not allow for repentance and
returning to the Muslim faith. Christianity on the other hand offers grace to the penitent sinner.
The Christian God is seeking for those who have disobeyed Him, and He still loves them and
wants them to turn back to Him. This leads to a second important difference between Christianity
and other world religions.
Relationship
The question offers itself of why does the Christian God seek out those who have
disobeyed Him? Should He not give them the punishment they deserve? The Christian God longs
to extend grace because He wants a personal relationship with each individual. He is the designer
and maker of each person on this earth and as such He desires a living, vital relationship with all.
He created mankind to be in a relationship with God. This relationship is to be a daily friendship
and is even likened to the relationship of a husband and wife. So not only do we see that God
extends grace to unworthy humans, but He also extends the hand of friendship to all who will
accept Him!
Resurrection
The final point we will mention here between Christianity and the other mainstream
religions is the authority of the founder of Christianity. Most religions can be traced back to
some human being who came up with a doctrine or was enlightened, etc but where do they get
their authority to teach others their truth? Christianity is unique in that its founder claims to be
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God, and that God sent His Son as a baby to earth. This baby, who was called Jesus lived a
relatively short life of thirty three years on this earth, and then was crucified. Three days later
this same Jesus was resurrected and was seen in the following days by hundreds of people. No
other religion lays out such a preposterous claim as the resurrection that can actually be
verified by not just Christianitys own sources, but by historical sources as well. The resurrection
thus offers hope to mankind. If Jesus had not conquered death then Christianity would be a hoax,
but since Jesus died and rose again we can have a relationship with a grace-bestowing Savior!