World Religions Versus Christianity
by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch:
How does Christianity differ from all the other world religions?
Although wildly ambitious and seemingly foolish to write on such a massive topic, with billions of words already having come forth on this, let me try nonetheless to offer a few thoughts. My aim is to briefly look at how the major world religions stack up against the truth claims of Christianity, and to show the superiority of the latter.
This is of course exceedingly difficult to seek to argue for in today’s culture. Most folks in the West now no longer believe in the idea of absolute truth and the uniqueness of religious beliefs. Relativism and “tolerance” have trumped truth and absolutes. As Erwin Lutzer puts it in Christ Among Other Gods:
“We have moved from the conviction that everyone has a right to his own opinions to the notion that every opinion is equally right! We have moved from genuine pluralism, the idea that the religions of the world can peacefully coexist, to syncretism, the idea that the beliefs of various religions can be mindlessly combined.”
A major point I seek to make here is that all religions are not the same. The more you study them, the more you see how very different they are. And despite some popular thinking, they are all exclusivist in various ways – even supposedly “inclusive” religions like Buddhism.
As Paul Copan puts it: “All religions aren’t basically the same. They differ profoundly, in major ways. What they have in common is that they are so different.” Or as Ravi Zacharias has said in Jesus Among Other Gods:
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