This is simply a declaration to all, that Jesus Christ is FAR superior to any and every other god, religion, or philosophy. While the world is clawing itself to shreds, consumed by sin and debauchery, those blood-bought children of God await their Lord's glorious return to begin eternity with Him.&#160; With that said, His (true) Church is not waiting idly but is being salt and light in this brutal world (Matt. 5:13-16) showing though their lives the reality of Christ's resurrection and sustaining power.</p><br>
<p dir=ltr>Christ is superior to all other gods because He did what none could do.&nbsp; As history is packed with man's futile attempts through religion and self-righteousness to reach God himself, and to attain a "higher level" of existence, man has never been able to expunge the great evil of his own dark heart.&nbsp; Man has tried and mightily still is to "make the world a better place"; has murder and war and crime stopped, or even slowed down in the least?—Absolutely not, but has, in fact increased geometrically! Christ is superior because He, upon His own strong shoulders, bore the entire world's sin debt, paying it all forever with His own blood.
Christ is better than Allah, Muhammad, and Islam; He is greater than the sacrificial system of Judaism; He is superior to the nirvana state of Hinduism and Buddhism because all these are devoid of the grace and mercy and love necessary for a holy God to redeem unto Himself the unlovable, the untrustworthy, the unthankful, the unholy and transform them and choose to live in them. What grace!
Christ alone makes this possible. He came into this foul world for His bitter enemies, those who dared shake defiant fists in His face and save them ANYWAY; He saw us ignorantly drowning in sin, cursing Him as He approached and brought us out despite ourselves.
He is superior because He alone is King of kings and Lord of lords, and there is no god besides Him; He is superior because His grace is greater than our sin, His compassion far stronger than our rebellion, His blood more potent than sin was powerful.
Finally, He is greater because He forgives—for His own sake—and empowers His own to conquer sin in their own lives. He is greater for He lives and never shall again die, but reigns enthroned in glory from on high!
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such WERE some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God"
(I Cor. 6:9-11, emphasis added).
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