| First of all the answer is NO. This question assumes that other beliefs offer equal evidence. This is absolutely untrue. The reason for becoming a Christian is because of the evidence for Christ. A study of the evidence of any other belief will end in a dead end. For instance: Mormonism: Founded by Joseph Smith (a man of questionable character) less than 200 years ago. He claimed to be given a divine revelation from God and supposedly found some tablets, which required the use of some special glasses to read. The whereabouts of the tablets and the glasses are unknown. And strangely enough some verses of his translation are identical to the King James Version of the Bible including some known inaccuracies of the KJV translation. Islam: Mohammed was a self -proclaimed prophet who supposedly received his revelations from the angel Gabriel. Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses are regarded as great prophets. Mohammed was a believer and a student of both the Old and New Testaments. Oddly enough, some of his writings in the Qu’ran show a real love for Jesus. Mohammed’s first convert was his wife, a wealthy forty- year old widow he married when he was twenty- five. By the way, Mohammed’s dead. Taoism (one of your favorites)- founded by a shadowy figure named Lao-tzu, of whom little or nothing is verifiable. Some scholars believe he never even existed. One legend said that he was never young, but was born an old man with white hair and beard. If he did exist he was a joke. You’d have to be seriously naïve to believe this stuff. Oh yeah, Lao-tzu’s dead. Hinduism – The smorgasbord of beliefs. This religion is so diverse and fluid it’s hard to define it. Buddhism – Actually sprouted from Hinduism as people dreaded the endless cycle of birth, death, and re-birth. Founded by Siddhartha Guatama about 500 B.C., Buddhists as you probably already know, are in search of “Nirvana”. The word actually is a negative term, meaning “the blowing out of the flame of desire”. Study Buddhism long enough and you’ll be needing some serious drugs to make any sense of it. And…Buddha’s dead. Confucianism – Confucius was born Chiu King about 550 B.C., the last of eleven children. He was married, divorced, and had two children. He was revered as a great teacher although he only held minor governmental posts until he was around fifty. He DIED in 479 B.C. |
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