CHRISTIANITY'S ANSWER TO THE LIFE'S GREATEST QUESTION

Christianity is the Faith with a spiritual axiom that provides a premise on which answers to the one of the greatest question are found: This Question made a young Prince Siddhartha Gautama to leave the comfort of a palace to seek answers Why do people live, suffer, get sick, grow old, get killed or just die? Is this what life is all about? Why was I born? These and many other questions prompted the Buddha to pursue a path that would lead him to finding satisfactory answers. In the course of his sojourn, he founded Buddhism.

Almost all the great religions of the world have and still are seeking answers to the greatest question above. People are still being born in trouble, get sick, grow old, get killed and die. The greatest mistake we make in seeking for solutions in our lives in this world is ‘missing the mark”. We seek answers to these perplexing questions in wrong places and from wrong people.

Wisdom calls that in order to find a lasting solution to a persistent malignant problem like that one posed by our question above; we need to find the root cause of the problem. Only the Christian Faith provides for this; that SIN is the cause of the problem highlighted in the great question and so long as the cancerous cells of sin still exist in human life , people will still die, grow old, get sick, fight each other, steal, enslave others, discriminate against others and the list goes on and on. 

The Bible in Romans 5: 12-13 points out that “therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. 13For sin was in the world before the Law was given; So it does not matter how many parliaments will make laws, the great question cannot be answered outside the Bible, and in that case, outside Christianity.

The Spiritual axiom in Christianity that provides a valid premise is found in the words of 1 Peter 2:24  “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” Dead people don’t envy, dead people don’t fight for positions and kill because they are already dead.

Each nation under the sun thinks that peace comes from peace treaties, and political alliances, they are all wrong. Life comes from Death. This is a principle of life. Something must die for the other to live. Plants and other vegetation have to die for other organisms to live. Animals have to die for the meat eaters to live. Where there is no death, there is no life. It is only in Christianity that this principle is clearly laid out. Why do people live, suffer, get old, get sick, get killed and die? Answer: Because of the sin that man committed when he disobeyed God.

Question: So shall man continue to live like this forever? What is the solution to this life’s great question?

Answer: The solution to the world’s problems is the death of Jesus Christ who “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24. Here in is the answer.

Samuel, Geffrey(2010), The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge University Press