Christianity and World Religion

Over the past centuries many religious beliefs have been criticized by many philosophers and critics. Christian faith has never been saved from these criticisms. In fact it has received one of the major blows of disparagement. This criticism of the Christian faith has caused damage to the Christian believers. Due to the criticism of Christianity, Christian believers were also criticized and were questioned by their fellow human beings. And because of these, Christian believers were caught unaware and did not know what to do. Furthermore, this also caused believers to have weak faith in Christianity. There were even others who lost their faith because of these attacks.

The existence of the New Testament has caused more damage to the Christian faith since the teaching found in the New Testament were in contrary to the beliefs of the heretics, criticizers and rebel Christians. In addition, the New Testament insists of Bible alone, Christ Alone, Grace Alone, and faith alone which further provoked the doubtful believers. These non believers were also afraid that Christianity would spread very fast that they tried to stop it by destroying or saying things against the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christianity even though, based on Personalism: Thomas Merton: The mainstream that Christianity had maintained is that God is free and all creation is loved into being.

The Roman Catholic Church at this time (fourth century to the 14th century) indulged in a great struggle for ecclesiastical as well as temporal power that they tend to silenced, torture, and killed millions of dissenting people. This has arrived to a point when instead of relatedness, one was left in detached relation, until it reduced a person and its personality which some view it as more ralted to an object. When the dictatorial rule of the Catholic Church was over, Christianity was rejected by many people since they didn’t understand the difference between Roman Catholic Church, the true church of Christ, and the Christ of the Bible. This was coupled with the rise of a lot of anti-Christian thinkers, philosophies and movements. A lot of anti-Christianity group arise during the 19th century and there common goal is to oppose to the Bible and to Christianity as well. Christ is the word of God and people are called to follow what he had said. Bible alone, Grace alone, Faith alone, Christ alone, to God alone be Glory. Christian apologetics shall always stand in favor of truth, total truth and truth alone. The truth will always be the truth and should always be separated from error.

A human’s journey in life is a journey traveled with God. Such a character rarely seen nowadays, and as I remember the works of St. Therese, which is known as the little flower of Jesus, she is such a Great example of a person who truly exudes an aura of personalism. She is so young, became the youngest nun at 12 years old, her life was so dependent to God, so dependent that she had served nothing but God. Even watering the plans is done because of God. Although self as a creature is a self without an established place, and dependence is a burden to the inflated ego, St. Therese had looked at sins as unfaithful and prone to be susceptible and vulnerable. She died young knowing that her dependence to God is her door to gratitude and now, after being made as a saint, ST. Therese had truly taught people the personalism that is so hard, esp. of today’s technology and antichrist rooming around, that life with God is as beautiful as her flowers.