Uniqueness of Jesus Christ is a well-known truth around the world. Even the people, who refuse to accept Him as God, know His uniqueness. He is the ONLY begotten Son of God. Jesus Christ is the truth and the way to eternal life. He said that no one except Himself knows and revealed the father. His matchless nature makes Him unique and cannot be compared to anyone or anything. Though He came to this world 2000 years ago to save the humanity as a man, He himself is God – who had no beginning. Jesus Christ is one of the triune natures of God (God in flesh).

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”

Matthew 11:27: “…No one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”

John 3:13 "No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of Man”

Unlike other avatars or claims of so-called “god-men”, Jesus didn’t earn divinity thru His submission to God but He was and is God from the beginning (John 1:1). It worked other way around that He was with God and Was God but chose to become a man to offer the Salvation to the world. He is the second person of triune Godhead (see trinity) and called as “Word of God.” No one but Jesus Christ can say, I am equal with God (Philippians 2:6).

John 8:58 “I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!"

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”

John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus claimed that He alone is the savior of the world and anyone who is willing to accept God (truth) will hear Him and follow Him. Any one who honestly seeks the truth of God will find Him.

John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”

John 18:37 “…Everyone on the side of truth listens to me”

Jesus lived a perfect life in which even His enemies and criticizers were not able to find a single Sin on Him; He lived a sinless life to become an acceptable sacrifice for the remission of our Sins and the perfect example for every one of us to follow. Even the unclean sprits cried, fled and confessed that He is the Son of God.

1 John 3:5 “But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in Him is no sin.

John 8:46 “Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?”

Luke 8:27 “And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs”

Luke 8:28 “When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, "What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?”

Unlike any other god-man, the birth, life and sacrifice of Jesus was foretold before thousands of years and fulfilled as predicted.

750 years before the birth of Jesus, Isaiah who lived during the time of King Uzziah foretold:

On His Birth:

Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel”

On His suffering:

Isaiah 50:6 “I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting”

On His Sacrifice:

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed”

On His proclamation of Salvation to mankind:

Isaiah 61:1 “Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners”

On His miracles:

Isaiah 35:5 “Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy”

On His burial by a rich man:

Isaiah 53:9 “He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth”

King David who lived 1000 years before Jesus birth, foretold:

He will be betrayed by His disciple who ate bread with Him

Psalms 41:9 “Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me”

He will be nailed in the cross

Psalms 22:16 “Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet”

“Truth is by definition Exclusive or Unique”.

The omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God is an Absolute! Nobody can replace or equate to God. If that were the case, God is not God any more!

The question or search of God should have ONLY one answer like the mathematical equation 2+2 is always 4! Obviously what Jesus Christ is claiming is true. “He is THE ONLY WAY TO GOD.” but other so-called god-men like Krishna and Buddha claims that there are many ways to God.

Often we hear arguments like “All paths to the same God” just like different rivers reaching the same ocean. If we assume the above statement is true then Jesus is wrong because He clearly claimed exclusivity. If the same God revealed the path thru different avatars then one path should not say the other is wrong, it is like God contradicting Himself. Buddhism is pantheistic and says, there is no personal God and everyone can reach Godlikeness on his own. Islam says that Jesus was just a prophet, and not the only way to God. Christianity says that there is a personal God, and that the only way to Him is through Jesus Christ. Hinduism says we are all gods in nature, but we just need to realize it. If these religions are different paths to the same place, then why do they contradict each other? Does truth contradict itself? Think about it.

We often hear people saying we choose our own path to reach God, as if it is a personal preference. If we have a choice to make our own path then it is a man made path. Man made paths can only lead to a man made god. Does it make sense? How come the all-powerful, all-knowing and matchless God became a mere preference? It is hard to get an analogy for God because He is matchless, but for the sake of argument we assume God as law of Gravity. If someone say, “well I prefer (or believe) that I go up when I throw myself from my balcony” Will it change the truth? Preference or Ignorance will never change the Truth. We need to take a decision by comparing the merits and trustworthiness of Jesus Christ with other so-called god-men.

Proverbs 16:25 "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it is the way of death"

Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name (than Jesus) under heaven given to men by whom we must be saved”

The life of Jesus is not a random incident, all humans right from Adam need Jesus for their Salvation. People like Abraham, Job and Moses were born thousands of years before Jesus Christ but yet they put their faith on Jesus and His cross for their Salvation, The simple difference is they looked forward but we are looking backward, In a sense we are more gifted as Jesus and mercy of God is so apparent and not concealed as it were for our forefathers.

Finally I want to conclude with the statement from C.S Lewis

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, The MacMillan Company, 1960, pp. 40-41.)

Which of the following better describes Jesus?

Mad man?
Devil of Hell?
Lord and God Who created you and me?

How Hinduism Differs:

Hinduism claims that every one is god by nature but they need to realize and elevate their consciousness (to God level) thru rituals, Dharma and inward looking practices such as yoga and meditation. Followers were encouraged to find their own truth by their own experience and self suffering.

Bible claims the Path of Jesus is open and available to all. The self suffering, self-control and experience based life will lead into astray

Colossians 2:18 “Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize (salvation) by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind”

The practices of Yoga will treat help the flesh but corrupts the soul which is eternal

Colossians 2:23 “These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence”

Bible claims that human nature is evil and not acceptable by the perfect God Who is full of Goodness and hates Sin.

Rom 3:23 "For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”

Rom 1:29 “Their (Human) lives are filled with all kinds of sexual sins, wickedness, and greed. They are mean. They are filled with envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness”

I would encourage you to pause and think what makes more sense and right? Is it a tough thing to know that our thoughts are sinful by nature? Just look around and see what is happening around you, Take a careful look at the morning paper. It is very apparent that most of the people living without even a glimpse of God

The process of Salvation (aka Moksha or Nirvana) is becoming a god; it is totally contrary to the truth. According to Christianity, God is always God; Man can live eternally in communion with God but never be a god. One character of God is no beginning or end. How do we become God, when we have concrete beginning?

Salvation is purely by the Grace of God, offered thru the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. In order to get saved we need to believe this with faith. If the Salvation can be attained thru works then it nullifies the grace of God, and can be demanded.

Justification is a divine act where God declares the sinner to be innocent of his sins. It is a legal action in that God declares the sinner righteous -- as though he has satisfied the Law of God. This justification is based entirely on the sacrifice of Christ by His shed blood: "...having now been justified by His blood..." (Rom. 5:9).1 Justification is a gift of grace (Rom. 3:24; Titus 3:7) that comes through faith (Rom. 3:28; 5:1). Christians receive Jesus (John 1:12) and put their faith-filled trust in what Jesus did on the cross (Isaiah 53:12; 1 Pet. 2:24) and in so doing are justified by God. The Bible states that justification is not by works (Rom. 3:20, 28; 4:5; Eph. 2:8-9) because our righteous deeds are filthy rags before God (Isaiah 64:6). Therefore, we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Those who are justified are saved and salvation is a free gift (Rom. 6:23), something we cannot earn (Eph. 2:1-10).

Titus 3:5 "He saved us-- not by works of righteousness (good karma) that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit."

Ephesians2:8 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”

According to Hindus god is a ‘Monist’ or “Pantheist”, which means, “God is all and all is God” So in a sense everything in the universe is god that also includes all lifeless materials. Creation and Creator are one in the same so the followers are free to worship any thing that includes idols and celestial bodies such as star, moon and sun.

Christian God is a Monotheist; means God is only one and He is separate from His creation (Transcended), He doesn’t need His creation for His survival. As oppose to Monist Hindu god, the Biblical God is everywhere but not in ‘everything’. . Idols worship or worshipping anything created by God is forbidden according to the word of God (bible).

Exodus 20:3, 4 “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth…”

Romans 1: 22 "Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles"

Romans 1: 25 "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."

Hinduism encourages reaching God (Salvation or Moksha or Nirvana) through countless rebirths (reincarnation) and good deeds (Dharma) to eliminate the Karma. The underlying logic is, at one point man will be 100% pure to be ‘qualified’ as a god. For a Hindu, The journey of life is very broad, if they fail once, then reincarnation comforts “better luck next time”.

"Karma' and 'reincarnation' work like a bank account. It says you can sin and do some good deeds (like paying money to homeless or a beggar) to balance the sin. This is called dharma. It encourages people to sin and spend their wealth to loose bad Karma. In a sense, money and wealth can buy you salvation!

How do you know what you did wrong in your last life in order to correct (or try to) in this life, you don’t know why you are here and what is your next incarnation going to be. In nutshell, you are in a pathetic situation that you cannot earn the salvation thru deeds, because your bad deeds will always surpasses the good and lead to spiritual bankruptcy.

Bible says there is only one Life and it is a gift of God, the path to life is narrow that we need to take our cross and walk along with Jesus.

Heb 9:27 "it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment"

Matt 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate; because the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it"

Jesus is referring hell while telling the story of Lazarus, according to John the Revelator the evildoers will be caste into lake of fire. Totally Reincarnation is denying the Judgment and the sacrifice of Christ, which is the centerfold of truth.

Mark 9:48 “where 'their (Hell) worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched ‘

Revelation 21:8 “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur (hell). This is the second death."

Reincarnation is illogical because animals cannot reason. So it doesn’t know anything about salvation. If all the souls are pre-existed and are caught up in the wheel of reincarnation, then the human population should keep decreasing as some souls exit the wheel by becoming a god, moreover we should see changes in the heart and mind of people to be pure than before, Don’t you see it is getting worse rather than better ?

Reincarnation and Karma has left us with lot of unanswered questions

If everyone is a reincarnation from a previous life why is the world population increasing and not decreasing?

If there are new souls and not reincarnated ones, where do they come from? And of course very importantly; where did the first person come from - he or she could not have been reincarnated?

Since each soul should be progressively purified of evil through their many reincarnations why isn't the world becoming a better place to live in?

Do you know India the birth place of Reincarnation, Why is there so much human misery in India where karma and reincarnation have been accepted for centuries?

Do you know what went wrong in your last reincarnation so that you have been reincarnated again this time?

If you can choose your path relatively then How come the karmic law works without moral absolutes?

If you don't know why you have been reincarnated, then how would you fix it with out knowing the problem?

Do you know how much your karmic debt you owe to God? If good and evil are same then what is the meaning of karma?

Do you think your so called good (as per your definition) works is increasing the debt or decreasing debt?

If animals have a soul, Can you observe a behavioral difference between two rats based on moral laws?

Our main problem is not “What to do?” Our consciousness teaches that we should be good and love others as we love our own but the question is how? Many saints, gurus and god-mans laid out list of ‘do’s and don’ts’ but nobody lived to prove ‘How’ to follow the list. However much we try, we always fail and live with the guilt and misery. Even the Apostle Paul who suffered much for the sake of God cried out in loud voice

Rom 7:24 “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”

Rom 7:15 “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do”

Because Paul sensed his inner man is always working against him and force him to do what he hates (Sin), he called himself as a slave to Sin!

Rom 7:14 “… I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin”

Rom 7:19 “For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing”

I believe we all are in a same situation as Paul; But the Good News is JESUS! Unlike others He didn’t left us in this world with the big list of do’s and don’ts rather He Himself take the human form, fulfilled the list of do’s and don’ts (called laws of God). For our sins His gave His life on the cross, and finally He declared the Victory in the loud voice “IT IS FINISHED!”

What a relief? Don’t try to live in the world of do’s and don’ts because the people who gave the list were gone and their tombs filled with their dried bones because they were not able to do the same list that they preached to others. Look at the empty tomb of Jesus; He defeated the death and finished the work for you. He accepts every one who seeks Him (see Salvation)

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”

John 6:37 “I will never turn away anyone who comes to me"