Brief Overview: Throughout human history, extraordinary figures have left their mark on the world, some retaining their influence for centuries. Yet, why is Jesus, an uneducated carpenter from a backwater village with a short 3-year public life so influential today, 2,000 years after his death? To discover why Jesus is unique, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
So many more things could be said concerning the absolute uniqueness of the Lord, but it's important for you to know that this Savior-God wants to have a special relationship with you; a unique relationship because you are also one-of-a-kind.
- Richard A Seymour (PhD)
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.
John 14:7
Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
John 14:6
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17
He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
Colossians 1:15
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Acts 4:12
but God raised him on the third day and made him manifest
Acts 10:40
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:5
And it is the unique Christ—depicted vividly in the poetry of Dante, the frescoes of Michelangelo, the sermons of Augustine, the stained-glass windows of the Sainte Chapelle, and the sacred ballet of the liturgy—who speaks trans formatively to hearts and souls across the Christian centuries
- Robert Barron (PhD)
There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim . . . we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
- Billy Graham
Through the resurrection, Christ demonstrated that He does not stand in a line of peers with Abraham, Buddha, or Confucius. He is utterly unique. He has the power not only to lay down His life, but to take it up again.
- Hank Hanegraaff
To deny that faith is the only way by which we may apprehend Christ’s riches is to deny the uniqueness of the person and work of the Savior and to deny the clarity of His Word. At stake when we consider Jesus’ claims to exclusivity is the gospel itself. The stakes could not possibly be any higher.
- Tim Challies
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
Socrates died like a philosopher; Jesus Christ died like a God.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Based upon his own eyewitness experience, John says that heaven and earth touched in the person of Jesus. The Christian church has called that connection the incarnation”Jesus is fully God and Jesus is fully human. This is what makes Jesus unique.
- Terry McGonigal (PhD)
The Christian notion of Christs death as an atonement for sins remains unique.
- Gary Habermas (PhD)
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.
- C. S. Lewis
When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.
- Helmut Thielicke (PhD)
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
- H. G. Wells
Uniqueness of Christ
The Person of Christ (1866)
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ Among The Major World Religions
God among Sages: Why Jesus Is Not Just Another Religious Leader
Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ
Unparalleled: How Christianity's Uniqueness Makes It Compelling
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves”or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I neednt argue about that. Im right and I will be proved right. Were more popular than Jesus now.
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.
"The bulk of the New Testament material is fiction. Birth stories, miracle stories, resurrection stories abounded in that time period. The early Christian writers simply adapted current hero stories to Jesus, producing a legendary figure, a faith symbol, around whom an entire belief system was to emerge."
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God... Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved.
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person that is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men.
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral."
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
Theology is ignorance with wings.
What Makes Christianity Unique?
"In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods." We're only one God away from total agreement."
If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
"There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn’t. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system."
Jesus Christ “ who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens “ can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
I and the Father are one.
John 10:30
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
Revelation 1:8
And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Mathew 28:18
Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
John 8:58
The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:22
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
John 5:21
This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:18
How Great Thou Art
The Historical Uniqueness of Jesus Christ Among the Founders of the Worlds Major Religions
Jesus and Socrates (1916)
The Uniqueness of Jesus
Reflections: The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
Why Is Jesus Christ Unique?
Who Is Jesus According To Other Religions?
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
We Believe
Requiem Mass in D Minor
Who You Say I Am
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
This I Believe
Jesus
Jesus Is Special
10,000 Reasons
What A Beautiful Name (Jesus)
This One Thing Makes Christianity Different From Every Other Religion
What makes Jesus Different from Other Religious Figures
Who is Jesus and what makes him unique?
What Makes Christianity Different from Other Religions?
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ: As Witnessed in the Gospel of John
Christ Alone---The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior
Thats Who I Praise
How is Christianity Different than all Other Religions?
Jesus Is Just Alright
Other Religions Point To Jesus
I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:30
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
John 1:29
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.
John 1:14
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
Hebrews 13:8
And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, Let all Gods angels worship him.
Hebrews 1:6
He committed no sin; no guile was found on his lips.
1 Peter 2:22
You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
1 John 3:5
The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Christ Among Other Gods
Whom Do Men Say That I Am?: Insights Into The Unique Nature of Jesus Christ
The Uniqueness of the Christian Faith 3rd Edition: How Christianity Radically Differs From the World Religions
There Was Jesus
Great Are You Lord
The Uniqueness of Christ
A Historian Explains the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus
Jesus: Liar, Lunatic or Lord
What do other religions say about Jesus?
How Christianity Is Unique Among the World Religions
More Than a Carpenter
Mere Christianity
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Im a polyatheist “ there are many gods I dont believe in.
Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.
"There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of God upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence."
Few theologians would care to pursue their research to its logical conclusion and finally assert, as did Thomas Paine, that the biblical account of Jesus has every mark of fraud and imposition stamped upon the face of it.
I believe Christ was a man like ourselves; to look upon him as God would seem to me the greatest of sacrileges.
How Great Thou Art
Evidence
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
Is Jesus Superior to All Other Religious Leaders?
Gods care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself.
- Dallas Willard (PhD)
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
- Josh McDowell
He was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I’ve ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world.
- Charles Templeton
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.
- Sholem Asch
Clearly the record of prophecy proved there was something unique about Him. The miracles He performed remain unequaled by anyone, but Jesus' greatest demonstration of authority is revealed in His power over sin and death.
- Pat Zukeman (PhD)
Most other religions are based on their teachings. Christianity is based on the death of Christ and the Resurrection that attests its efficacy. The idea of the Resurrection was scorned by most people, .... This is significant because Christianity is the only religion that stands or falls on the truthfulness of an event. Its survival is evidence that its unique basis, the Resurrection, is indeed valid.
- Ajith Fernando
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
- Brennan Manning
The Problem of Jesus (1891)
all the Christological titles and claims of the NT really boil down to the one claim that Jesus is truly the unique expression and agent of "God.
- Larry W. Hurtado (PhD)
Jesus Christ: The Unique Revealer of God (1915)
Foregleams of God A Comparative Study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity (1925)
The Uniqueness of Jesus In John's Gospel
The crucifixion is the touchstone of Christian authenticity, the unique feature by which everything else, including the resurrection, is given its true significance....The resurrection is, precisely, the vindication of a man who was crucified. Without the cross at the center of the Christian proclamation, the Jesus story can be treated as just another story about a charismatic spiritual figure.
- Fleming Rutledge (PhD)
Handel Messiah
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ: The Uniqueness and Significance of the Man
What's different about Jesus compared to other ancient Gods?
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
Undeniable Historical Evidence for the Existence of Jesus
Why Jesus Among Other Gods? (Q&A)
What Makes Jesus Christ Unique
Why Jesus Is God: And Others Are Not
"But it is neither as God nor as a man that Jesus must be regarded, but as a myth. No such person ever lived either as a human or divine existence. He is simply a creature of fancy, the fruit of the imagination. He is a character of the brain, the creation of religious genius."
Introduction: The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
The Uniqueness of Christianity - The Historical Jesus Christ
"Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
"Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected."
The Uniqueness of Christ In A Post Modern World
Faith Misused: Why Christianity Is Not Just Another Religion
Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Hebrews 1:10
and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.
John 17:5
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
- John R. W. Stott (PhD)
The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Luke 1:35
Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;
Matthew 1:20-23
And when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.
Matthew 9:1-7
The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus
The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ in History: Who was Jesus?
The Unique One: 18 Distinctives of Jesus Christ
The Uniqueness of our Faith: What makes Christianity distinctive?
As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise[a] to God.
Romans 14:11
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Faithful Witness to the Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
"Therefore I take it that when I tell you why I am not a Christian I have to tell you two different things: first, why I do not believe in God and in immortality; and, secondly, why I do not think that Christ was the best and wisest of men, although I grant him a very high degree of moral goodness."
The one really distinctive thing for which the Christians stood was their declaration that Jesus had been raised from the dead according to God’s design, and the consequent estimate of Him as in a unique sense Son of God and representative man, and the resulting conception of the way to reconciliation.
- C. F. D. Moule
Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
In Scripture the idea of holiness is applied first of all to God. It denotes primarily that God is absolutely distinct from the creature, is exalted far above it in heavenly majesty, and is therefore the unapproachable One.
- Louis Berkhof
Christ Is Unique
A Brief Comparative Study of Christianity and Non-Christian Religions (1911)
The Uniqueness of Jesus
The NAME Above All Names (The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ)
How Is Jesus Different from Other Religious Leaders?
The Unique and Universal Christ: Jesus in a Plural World Paperback
Ten Basic Steps Introduction: The Uniqueness of Jesus
World Religions: What Makes Jesus Unique? Part 1
World Religions: What Makes Jesus Unique? Part 2
World Religions: What Makes Jesus Unique? Part 3
World Religions: What Makes Jesus Unique? Part 4
World Religions: What Makes Jesus Unique? Part 5
The Uniqueness of Jesus
You're asking the right questions, and now you want to dig a little deeper.
Lee Strobel
C. S. Lewis
Leo Tolstoy