How to prove that Christianity is superior?

[Lazarus Short]

Rather, the Bible proves itself. That's the point.

The Bible is a self-validating document.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I think the answer lies in uncovering within we who are born again, those hidden gifts and using them to serve others.

 

[MWood]

We are to let our light so shine that people are drawn to us as a moth is to a flame. And they will ask, and this is when you teach them with all meekness and humility. Letting the Holy Spirit speak through you. Then they will know and understand.

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

The uniqueness of the Bible can only be shown by our unique attitudes

The uniqueness of the Bible can be shown by getting them to read it.

 

[Righttruth]

You've expressed your view several times now, so let's say that we got it and aren't benefitted by the added sarcasm.

What I doing was answering the question here, not conducting a seminar in the ten things to say when debating with a non-Christian, particularly when I assumed that most Christians reading this thread know that the Bible is the most critiqued book in world history, that it's stood up to innumerable challenges, that it's a record of a people over a great amount of time, that it has an internal logic and consistency that other sacred texts do not have...and much more that recommends it. Explaining all of this in detail would take lot of space and was not part of the question in the first place.

Whether or not it will convince someone who has grown up thinking that another god is the real one is of course hard to say, but this is the way to approach them.

Yes, it has survived so also other religions. But in what way Christians prove that Bible is superior? Is not by behavior and attitude? Is it not by love, compassion and help that draws people to Christianity that is different from what is found in other religions?

 

[Righttruth]

That's pure nonsense. Our attitudes in no way prove the uniqueness of the Bible. Nor does the sincerity or friendliness of a Hindu or Moslem prove that those religions or their gods are true instead of the Christian POV. Rather, the Bible proves itself. That's the point.

That is disproved by hypocrites of Christendom who have no inkling of the Gospel and such preaching of Jesus, like especially, Sermon on the Mount.

 

[Righttruth]

The uniqueness of the Bible can be shown by getting them to read it.

When will they be prompted to read it? Is it not observing the righteousness of believers in Christ?

 

[Righttruth]

The Bible is a self-validating document.

But how many practice what is preached?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

When will they be prompted to read it? Is it not observing the righteousness of believers in Christ?

Only where the believers in Christ live perfect lives. Changed lives. Redeemed Righteous lives. (few places on earth)(Everywhere they live lives immersed entirely in Jesus ..... as believers did in ACTS, Ephesians, Philippians.... for a while,
and later in Foxes Book of Martyrs, and testimonies as found in VOM = Voice of the Martyrs.)

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

But how many practice what is preached?

Same as all through the NT (and probably OT also),
just as in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Maybe especially Revelation TODAY. (read Revelation out loud - see how few do what is right according to God Himself)

 

[Righttruth]

Only where the believers in Christ live perfect lives. Changed lives. Redeemed Righteous lives. (few places on earth)(Everywhere they live lives immersed entirely in Jesus ..... as believers did in ACTS, Ephesians, Philippians.... for a while,
and later in Foxes Book of Martyrs, and testimonies as found in VOM = Voice of the Martyrs.)

Everyone wants hope converted to assured salvation no matter how they live.
Matthew 5
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

 

[Righttruth]

Same as all through the NT (and probably OT also),
just as in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Maybe especially Revelation TODAY. (read Revelation out loud - see how few do what is right according to God Himself)

People are busy building convenient concepts based on one sided letters of Paul meant for specific people at a particular context for the problems they had using his craftiness.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Seek God Himself, His Face, His Kingdom as He says throughout His Word.

Paul simply taught what Jesus taught him by the Father's Direction.

Everything perfectly lines up and is in compete HARMONY with all of God's Word.

Man messes it all up. Can't trust men. God never says to. (Says He curses whoever trusts man(flesh)) .

 

[paul becke]

Everything depends on the foundational documents and the Spirit which convicts and converts.

Yes, even among Christians, it has to be understood that when we read the words of scripture, we are being spoken to by God personally, just as though He were (is!) in the room with us.

And, as Lazarus Short said, the Spirit which convicts and converts is pivotal, too, isn't it ? Indeed, primordial.

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

When will they be prompted to read it? Is it not observing the righteousness of believers in Christ?

You can just ask them to read it with you.

 

[paul becke]

Yes, even among Christians, it has to be understood that when we read the words of scripture, we are being spoken to by God personally, just as though He were (is!) in the room with us.

And, as Lazarus Short said, the Spirit which convicts and converts is pivotal, too, isn't it ? Indeed, primordial.

I suspect the influence of first-rate, Christian exegesis can have, will have had, an enormously powerful effect on many Muslims (particularly in the Middle East), whose particular sectarian, mutually-hostile and now internecine, cultures have been ruthlessly exploited by us colonialist, newly-atheist Westerners - to divide, rule and pillage their natural resources.

Imagine for instance, the effect on most, if not all Muslim, women - however powerless they might be to avail themselves of formal conversion - who read this article of Jesus' attitude towards women, and, indeed, dreadful 'warts and all', increasingly, that of his Church, for the most part, without its falling into the falsehoods of atheist, feminist liberalism :

https://bible.org/article/christianity-best-thing-ever-happened-women

Then there are the many, palpably-sincere testimonies of the near-death experiencers, who recognised the Being of Light, as Christ, even though he did not explicitly identify himself - one of whom, Richard, said he was then baptized, 'because he thought it was the right thing to do'. He has since been translating the Bible for himself, presumably to get closer to its sources. Another, a US marine called Sean Weed, a rumbustious-lookng character, but certainly in no wise lacking in grey matter, did not see Jesus, but was overwhelmed with emotion that he had been privileged, proximately at least, to have been saved from the clutches of a large demon by St Michael. Anyway, enough of the digressions.

There are also some very interesting testimonies of Muslim converts on YouTube. But I hope we all understand that the Islam focused on by our media gives a very false impression of the Islam that raises many, many decent souls in the West, increasingly closer in their values to our Christian ones, than the increasingly decadent ones of our ever more disoriented and hostile, atheist societies.

 

[Colter]

To claim, that the Bible contains the words of God when interacting with people of other religions, will not help. They also quote their scriptures claiming the origin from their gods.

It is by the fruit of the Spirit that we show our superiority in spirituality, not in pages of books. It is by serving, sharing and suffering with humility that puts us apart from other religions.

You've already lost when you claim superiority. Spiritual truth is not limited to one religious sect even when that sect claims the Son of God. The spirit of truth, the presence of Christ is working throughout all religions that seek God. Progressively the spirit of truth is working to bring all the sons and daughters of God together in fulfillment of the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven. Only God is spirit soveregne, not one particular religion with a chosen people chip on its shoulder.

 

[Righttruth]

You can just ask them to read it with you.

Those who thirst for righteousness may read it. But they may be put off by the witnessing of many hypocrites of Christendom

 

[Righttruth]

You've already lost when you claim superiority. Spiritual truth is not limited to one religious sect even when that sect claims the Son of God. The spirit of truth, the presence of Christ is working throughout all religions that seek God. Progressively the spirit of truth is working to bring all the sons and daughters of God together in fulfillment of the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven. Only God is spirit soveregne, not one particular religion with a chosen people chip on its shoulder.

It is s good understanding of the power of God.

 

[Albion]

Yes, it has survived so also other religions. But in what way Christians prove that Bible is superior? Is not by behavior and attitude?

No. It's in the integrity and credibility of the Scriptures.

As I said, they are unlike any of these other religions' sacred writings; and it is through coming to believe that they are indeed the word of God that a member of another religion is most likely to be brought to Christ. After all, there are nice and sincere people in every religion, as well as unpleasant ones, so I am confident that the revelation is what can prove out our religion to these people, just as it does for you and me.