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Dear Anonymous —
Thanks for your question.
You said:
- Seeing there are so many religions in the world, how do we know we hold the correct faith in Christianity?
Because Christ, Our Blessed Lord, while on earth:
- Claimed to be God (Read John's Gospel)
- Proved He was God (He died and rose from the
dead. Some Muhammad never did.)
- Performed numerous miracles while on earth.
[I'm not aware of any other founder of any other
religion who has done all of these.]
- Founded a Christian Church, the fullness and
totality of which we call the Catholic Christian
Faith. The word Catholic means a Christian faith in its totality.
Read what St. Ignatius of Antioch said in 107 A.D. less
than 80 years after our Lord's Ascension:
See that you all follow the bishop, even as
Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery
as you would the apostles; and reverence the
deacons, as being the institution of God. Let
no man do anything connected with the Church
without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper
Eucharist, which is [administered] either by
the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted
it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let
the multitude [of the people] also be; even as,
wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic
Church.
Epistle Of Ignatius To The Smyrnaeans in 107 A.D. |
If by your question you mean, how do we know that
Christianity is a provable faith, there
is no such way. It requires divine faith.
Mere
Christianity, by C.S. Lewis is a great
read that helps address this question.
He shows how Christ could have only have been:
- a Liar
- a Lunatic or
- the Lord himself and logically rules out the first two.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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