{"id":6678,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-makes-christianity-different\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","slug":"what-makes-christianity-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/what-makes-christianity-different\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Christianity Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All but four of the major world religions are based on mere philosophical propositions.  Of the four that are based on personalities rather than philosophies, only Christianity claims an empty tomb for its founder.<\/p>\n<p>In 1900 B.C. Judaism\u2019s Father Abraham died.  In 483 B.C. Buddhist writings say Buddha died \u201cwith that utter passing away in which nothing whatever remains behind.\u201d  June 6, 632 A.D. Mohammed died.<\/p>\n<p>In 33 A.D. Jesus died but came back to life appearing to 500 people over a period of 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:14).<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>SermonCentral staff.  Citation: McDowell, Josh. Evidence that Demands a Verdict.  Page 180.  San Bernadino, CA: Here\u2019s Life Publishers, Inc., 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All but four of the major world religions are based on mere philosophical propositions. Of the four that are based on personalities rather than philosophies, only Christianity claims an empty tomb for its founder. In 1900 B.C. Judaism\u2019s Father Abraham died. In 483 B.C. Buddhist writings say Buddha died \u201cwith that utter passing away in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[895,2221,759,792,2222],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}