So What is the Difference?

I am going to be recording information that I am gathering regarding Biblical Christianity in comparison to other beliefs. They will include summaries of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, New Age, Mormonism, Evolutionism, Unitarianism and a few other belief systems. Here goes.......

So What’s the Difference?
A look at different faiths and religions and how they compare to Christianity
Written by Fritz Ridenour

My Christian Worldview:
His crowning creation was us. We are made in God’s image; and when we die we will either go to be with Him or be separated from Him forever. Because sin prevents us from getting it right, God sent His Son-part of Himself-to redeem and justify us.

Being a Christian is a Personal Matter. Becoming a true Christian is a personal transaction between me (or you) and God. No one else can make this transaction.

BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY

Biblical Christianity: means the Christian believer searches seriously and carefully for the meaning of the Bible on its own terms, not changing its meanings to fit the times. Biblical Christians approach the Bible with reverence and respect, because they believe it is true and authoritative-it contains God’s very words.

The thing that draws all biblical Christians together is the biblical doctrine that center around this plain and simple teaching:
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

By definition, that backbone of Christianity is CHRIST.
If Jesus Christ was not who He claimed to be (God), but only a man, then Christianity is a fraud and Jesus would have to be a liar or a lunatic. He leaves us no other alternative. So for someone to say he is not the Son of God but he was a good teacher or a good man, is just ridiculous.

There is plenty of historical and scientific evidence for the Bible’s validity and evidence in the form of fulfilled prophecy. The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

As for scientific evidence, archaeologists have proved again and again the accuracy of Scripture accounts, the names of people, places and dates.

The Bible was written by 40 authors over a period of 1,600 years. Most of these writers never knew the others.

The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths for the Christian cause. The only plausible explanation for their zeal was that they had actually seen, talked and eaten with the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ has not risen and appeared to the apostles, it is unimaginable that they all would have died for a lie.
Biblical Christians believe that Christ is God and that He died for our sins. That by nature we are all sinners, spiritually dead, and our only hope for salvation from sin is faith in Christ’s death and resurrection. We believe that we have a Bible that is inspired by the living God, and it is the only infallible rule of faith and practice.