The problem is christians think it's "common sense" and we just look outside and "know" it's their creator and poof have an awakening experience that their book is "the" book. That's why there is more resistance. Judgement, by nature, isn't meant for multiple perspectives of truth just the one that fits that criteria of right judgement.
Love isn't an action. The muslim and christian can believe in love, forgiveness, humility, and they sure seeked god and gained wisdom. However, if it's not about belief then the athiest would be saved just as the muslim and christian if all three of their behaviors was pleasing to god regardless their convictions.
Science doesn't prove the spiritual nature of the bible and definitely doesn't prove anything miraculous. Why do christians feel they are "special"?
Why can't christians just be happy that people are not lost, searching, rejecting, so have you and just don't believe in "their" god?
Why is it all about them?
One of the hardest things for the modern Western mind is to contemplate alternate religions.
And that somehow the Buddhist Tripitaka is equivalent to the bible, and somehow the warlord
Mohammed is equivalent to Jesus. There's logic fallacy in this somewhere.
One thing I admire about the bible is that for many claims it makes it provides a physical or
historical or worldly picture to parallel the claim. Thus God seeks a people to cal His own, a
people small in number who are blessed in doing well and cursed in doing wrong. God has
a sacred place and a symbolic holy city. God has a Promised Land for his people, his
chosen people called out of the Egypt (meaning the world.)
And thus we have the historical account of the Jewish people, blessed and cursed, driving
into exile, a blessing to those who bless them and a curse to those who curse them. Few in
number when in fact their population by now should be enormous. A holy city of Jerusalem,
Brought out of captivity and Babylon and returned to their homeland. Restoring the walls
broken down etc..
And the account of Jesus is not just another 'holy man' or 'wise man' or 'conqueror' or
great writer. Plenty of those around. And many would like to emulate this. But Jesus came
to die for his people, as the bible said he would.
Yesterday reading Daniel again. It speaks of the Romans coming one day to destroy
the temple, Jerusalem and Israel - and even to kill the Messiah, who would die for His
people. You don't get that reading Buddhist etc literature - this is Different.