Wow! As a Buddhist I must really be in deep do-do. Where do I sign up for this Catholic thingy?
And yet, it’s not as simple as I first thought: Moslems torture and kill me in this life if I don’t convert, and then Allah sends me to hell. Catholics at least won’t torture and kill me in this life (at this point in history, anyway . . . probably) - yet they still expect the Catholic God to send me to hell after I die - a kinder and gentler, more “charitable” posture, I suppose.
So, who has jurisdiction? Do I end up in the Moslem hell or the Catholic one? Or both? Do the eternal sentences run consecutively? Do I get any say in this, any appeal? And how does this fit in with the whole endowed by my Creator with certain inalienable rights thing? Inquiring Buddhists want to know.
“So, who has jurisdiction?”
It’s not our decision, but His decision.
As to your question, you are very right. The muslims and the Christians and the buddhists cannot all be right. They could all be wrong, or one of them is right.
Christians believe that we are right because Jesus of Nazareth, who died on the cross, and that he resurrected from the dead three days later. Even the Jews who disagree with us on this point, agree that his tomb was empty.
So somehow a man who was dead for three days, wrapped in his burial linens, with 50 pounds of spices, left those spices and the linens behind.