Why Christianity is unique amongst ALL the world's religions!

[ramiroflores]

Many will say and believe that the various religions around the world are merely different pathways to God. Further, they'll insist that one's PATHWAY isn't what is important, but only the fact that you are on A path - and that ALL paths lead to the same "God." But to believe this, one has to ignore that the various world religions, while often sharing core ethical / moral teachings about how we are to treat each other, have DRASTICALLY different teachings about God (or whatever god they believe in), including what is required by each faith tradition to reach Heaven. And ALL of the world's religions EXCEPT Christianity, teach a MERIT-based theology of what their deity or god(s) require for them to reach whatever version of heaven they believe in. And that's because Christianity is NOT merit-based or dependent upon how GOOD one has lived their life. Christianity teaches one CANNOT reach or EARN Heaven by their good works and deeds. As Christianity teaches Christians reach Heaven ONLY by the sacrificial death of Jesus on the Cross - as ONLY He makes Heaven possible for ANYONE! IF one will embrace and believe in the Jesus of Scripture and commit / submit themselves to Him in heart and mind to follow Him. And if they will do so, Jesus then applies HIS work to every saved person, and thus makes them acceptable to God and thus Heaven-bound!

[TRANSPONDER]

Then good morality works without Jesus or any other religion.

I have not seen any evidence for that.

I get the idea of a god watching to coerce the wrongdoer into not doing it through fear of punishment, ...

If fear of punishment is the only preventing thing, then I don't think the person is righteous.

Then you validate the point I made above. Atheists have at times argued that anyone who Does Good because they hope for g heaven or fear Hell are not 'Righteous' as you say, but just acting like that. It is the unbeliever who neither hopes for Salvation nor fears damnation but tries to do good because it is the best hope for our species, and in fact all the others and the whole planet and leave it to the Religious to damn the planet because fossil fuels and petrol droven vehicles are very profitable.

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...It is the unbeliever who neither hopes for Salvation nor fears damnation but tries to do good because it is the best hope for our species, and in fact all the others and the whole planet

I don't see any meaningful difference in that. If one does good only to get some reward, it is not very righteous.

and leave it to the Religious to damn the planet because fossil fuels and petrol droven vehicles are very profitable.

And yet some blame Christians for that all the polluting stuff was not invented earlier. There simply is no pleasing atheists.

[TRANSPONDER]

...It is the unbeliever who neither hopes for Salvation nor fears damnation but tries to do good because it is the best hope for our species, and in fact all the others and the whole planet

I don't see any meaningful difference in that. If one does good only to get some reward, it is not very righteous.

and leave it to the Religious to damn the planet because fossil fuels and petrol droven vehicles are very profitable.

And yet some blame Christians for that all the polluting stuff was not invented earlier. There simply is no pleasing atheists.

If one does something, not because it is good, but because one is hoping to please God and get some reward, it isn'r really being good, and to call it 'Righteous' means something other than actually doing good.

I have never heard anyone blame Christians for the problems that are being talked about right now, but Some kinds of Christians are to blame for opposing doing anything about it now, and for no other reason that I can identify than funding by the fossil fuel corporations.