Is It Arrogant to Say Only Christianity is True? Video provided by: RZIM
Are Christians arrogant for believing they are right? Christians have been deemed as egotistical — even bigoted — for believing in Jesus Christ and not being accepting of other religious views. How do the claims of Christianity fare against claims of Buddhism and Islam? RZIM explores the topic of Christian arrogance, the authenticity of Christian world views, and presents several key points regarding Christian beliefs.
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It’s not what Christians have to say that matters and it’s not about who’s right and who’s wrong. It’s what God has to say that matters. I think that as Christians, I wouldn’t say that we are egotistical, I would say that we have concern for our fellow man and we want everyone to come to the Lord and have the hope that we have.
good article even though we might come across arrogantly we do have a person HE is the only one who died for people and no one can easily say that JESUS is the only one who can save people from their sins, WE HAVE HOPE AND A FUTURE.
This is the word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is the plain truth and therefore the subject of arrogance does not hold water. It is true that Jesus Christ is the son of God. It is true that Jesus Christ died on the cross. It is true that Jesus Christ rose again. It is true that Jesus Christ is risen. It is true that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Saviour of the WHOLE world. It is true that Jesus Christ will come again!!!
Esther, you’ve proven the point of Christian arrogance. You KNOW things? Based on what? If the Bible is proof god exists then Marvel Comics is proof Spider Man exists. You KNOW nothing – you may have faith but faith and knowledge are two different things. If you don’t have proof (and you don’t) then you have NOTHING.
By the way… nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus was resurrected (try and find it) nor does it mention a “rapture” – an idea formulated by a MAN in the 1600s.
Your faith is based on lies, Esther, and on that point I take a most arrogant stand of, “PROVE IT”.
Hi Clutch, I appreciate your request for proof because there is no need to blindly follow Jesus without any assurance that He is who He said He is.
The best proof for the existence of God is the resurrection of Jesus. It is an event that has more than sufficient evidence and has never been satisfactorily disputed–although many have tried. And contrary to what you have claimed, there is plenty of times that Jesus is said to have been resurrected from the dead. The original Greek text of the New Testament has two words (‘anastasis’ being the more common, but also ‘egersis’) which are translated resurrection. There are over 40 times those words are used in the New Testament and many of them refer directly to Jesus. One example is in Acts 4:33 where we read, “And the apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.” Jesus Himself said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.” (John 11:25)
One of the proofs is the way the Disciples of Jesus stuck to their claim that Jesus did indeed resurrect from the dead. They faced huge persecution from the Jewish leaders of their day, the Roman authorities and the ridicule of their peers. Of the twelve who walked with Jesus and saw Him raised to life after being crucified, only one died of old age. All the others were martyred for their faith. If they knew it was a lie, would they really have given up everything they had, even their lives? Not a chance!
We are told in the New Testament that Jesus appeared to over 500 people after His resurrection. That is 500 people who could have potentially stepped forward and said, “I never saw Him!” But there was never any such denial.
The Jewish leaders of the day had every motivation to produce the body of Jesus and stop the rise of the Church which was undermining their control and influence on the Jewish people. They tortured followers of Jesus, threw them into prison and killed them, but never once did they produce the body of Jesus prove that what they were following was a hoax.
Jewish writings do acknowledge the existence of Jesus in a very negative light–which is consistent with their view of Him. The Talmud has a number of passages that refer to Jesus, calling Him a false Messiah who practiced magic and was sentenced to death for His crimes. But again, this only solidifies the proof of the existence of Jesus and the evidence that the Jewish leaders saw Him as an enemy. Why did they not produce the body that they had custody of under Roman guard? That’s because they no longer had His body because He had been resurrected.
As Dr Edwin Yamauchi points out in Lee Strobel’s book “The Case For Christ”, there is enough documentary evidence of Jesus outside of the Bible that we can say for certain that “first, Jesus was a Jewish teacher; second, many people believed He performed healings and exorcisms; third, some people believed He was the Messiah; fourth, He was rejected by the Jewish leaders; fourth, He was crucified under Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius; sixth, despite this shameful death, His followers, who believed He was still alive, spread beyond Palestine so that there were multitudes of them in Rome by A.D. 64; and seventh, all kinds of people from the cities and countryside–men and women, slave and free–worshipped Him as God.” (p.115)
So if there was a man named Jesus who fits all of that evidence we have–all from sources outside of the Bible–who claimed to be God and told the Jewish leaders that the only sign they would be given to establish proof of His divinity was the sign of resurrection, how do you respond to the fact that He has indeed been raised from the dead?