A Path from Reason to Christianity

This essay seeks to highlight a potential path to Christianity that does not use the Bible or any other historical texts. Rather, it focuses on logic, reason, and basic observations in order to reach Christianity directly. Many of the typical arguments for God, such as the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, do not go further than attempting to demonstrate the existence of some unknown powerful force that explains certain aspects of our universe. Additional arguments take the next step in trying to show that this cause of the universe has the characteristics of the Christian God, such as omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, etc. However, it is difficult to find arguments that simultaneously do not rely on the Bible and that go from the existence of the Christian God to the truth claims of Christianity specifically, namely that Jesus Christ is God and that humanity can be saved from sin by him. The path to Christianity that is explored in this essay aims to accomplish this task by presenting a reasonable case for Christianity that can stand on its own, without the Bible.