Apologetics and Evidence

People are (and get) stuck in false religions, because to them, it is the ultimate  identity . People seem to have an innate need to have identity in something. It consumes us. Think about it. We often ask someone we first meet what they do for a living because we think that we will have a quick grasp of who they are. This is because we tend to think that a person  is  what he or she  does . Those of us who are not afraid to ask questions might ask what a person believes about the world. Perhaps what religion he or she might be.  Religions seek to answer life’s fundamental questions. One of them is, “Who are we?” People often gravitate toward these answers that religions provide ( even erroneous ones ), to their questions. Take  Buddhism  for instance, some argue that it is not a religion, yet in interviewing Buddhists, they claim to have peace. Why? Often it boils down to the fact that their questions are answered. The problem with  Buddhism , at...

All religions can be false, but not all of them can be true . One religion can be true , which is what I argue for Christianity , but not all of them can be true because they oppose one another. Religions by their own existence imply exclusivity. Think about it… Would a religion exist if it thought another religion were the truth? Think of what is likely the most extreme example: Hinduism. Hinduism teaches that “there are almost no restrictions on personal beliefs, but in order to qualify as a Hindu, a religion has to (1) regard the Vedas as divinely inspired and authoritative, (2) accept the caste system, and (3) respect the veneration of the various levels of deities and spirits, including the protection of cows.” [1] Notice the wording in this citation: not that a person must do these things to qualify, but a religion must do these three things to qualify as Hinduism. The reason Hinduism is such an extreme example is because it is a polytheistic religion, having up to 330 mi...