Christianity false?
What makes Christianity true and other religions false?
I feel like this can be seen at different stand points . You can look at the question as how do we know Christianity is true and WHAT makes other religions false or you can look at it as just as what makes Christianity’s claims and teachings true.
Archaeological evidence for religions can work in serval ways. Knowing a location truly existed doesn’t quite mean what was said to happen there did in fact happen. We see this in the case of greek gods. We have temples for Artemis and Apollo in the same way we have temples for God that were created in the time of Solomon. As Christians, we know God is real but it can be easily debated that buildings or the mere existence of someone does not mean that the religion is true. I exist and so does my house yet if I were to say I flew and controlled water with my hands, my mere existence nor the existence of my house/location could provide evidence for that although it could support it. However, we have evidence for events in the Bible as well as locations and accounts of the people in the Bible actually existing. One of my favorite pieces of evidence are the Ipuwer Papyrus which includes an account of the plagues of Egypt from someone who lived in that time period and wrote it in 1440 around the same time the Exodus is predicted to take place! Another account is from Pliny the Younger who couldn't deny the works of Jesus yet however credited it to magic “Jesus who was called the Christ did magic and led Israel into new teachings, and was hanged on Passover for them (Babylonian Talmud) in Judea, he claimed to be God and would return which his followers believed, worshiping Him as God.”
Back to what I was saying to how the mere existence of someone doesn’t mean their words are true, we are all aware that Muhammad was a real person correct? yet his mere existence isn’t liable for the credibility of his words. Yet many things Muhammad taught in contradicted itself and as well weren’t scientific. Quran 2 states that earth THEN heaven was created. Quran 79 says the opposite. “Quran-2:29: It is He who hath created for you all things that are on Earth; THEN He turned to the Heaven and made them into seven firmaments,” “Quran- 79:27-30: Are you the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built? He raised the height thereof and ordered it, and He has made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morning thereof. And after that, He spread (flattened) the earth.” There are also many contradictions in the Book of Mormon such as Doctrine and Covenants 42:18 talks about how there is no forgiveness for murder while Nephi 30:2 states that even murder can be forgiven.
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