SOUL FOOD: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY

Things are not as they ought to be. We live on two levels. The first is the way things are, the human level. And we can envision and hope for a better world full of perfect justice, beauty, friendship, let's call that the divine level. That's the way things ought to be. So there is a huge chasm between the way things are and the way things ought to be. So how do we bridge this chasm? The atheist goes "that's a wrong diagnosis, we're doing great right now" but that is just a foolish refusal to acknowledge the rotten nature of human being. To realize this, all you have to do is set people loose and remove laws or let the police take a weak off and see what happens.

Most religions in the world say that humans can climb up to the divine level by following a set of codes or commandments; Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. Christianity is unique and radical in saying in effect "no". This gap is too wide apart and we cannot climb high enough to get to the divine level. We can go up a couple of runs but we are not satisfied with only a couple of runs, we want to get to the finish line. God saw that and knew the only way to close the gap is if God, has to, in some sense, become man and show us from our human level, how to get up there. That is the only way to really get up to the divine level.

Jesus is, if you will, God's emissary to the world. And look at what Jesus said. He said only one thing we have to do to get there - plead guilty and ask for help and follow the instructions that follow. What could be a more gentler, easier counsel than to say "whatever you've done, even Hitler, if you have true repentance, salvation is sure to be yours"

This, is one of the major reasons why I am a Christian.

Written By Safa Best