why is christianity the largest religion in the world? Why is it dominant among other cultures and religions?

Question

what reasons made christianity dominant among other cultures and religions...why it had expanded over the world...i'm not asking about sentiments in religion here...i'm asking exactly WHY christianity is dominant. Like, say, the Philippines hundreds of years ago was pagan but when the adherent Spaniards came to introduce Christianity, the people of the islands embraced it. And other similar situations where Christianity had expanded. Why it had overcome the former beliefs and former culture of the people who now embrace Christianity....

Answer 1

Based on the universal meaning of Christ I will present below, I hope this may better explain why so many people across time and cultures have come to adopt or accept Jesus Christ.

If Jesus Christ is the universal Messiah for all people, who rejoins God and humanity as one, then Christ must represent the common love that joins all humanity as one by conscience -- all souls across time, all people of all tribes and nations. Otherwise, anything less contradicts the meaning of a universal messiah whose sacrifice saves all souls by expunging collective sins and karma from the past that otherwise trap and divide us.

Thus if the Bible is true, it makes sense to me that at some point all tribes, nations and tongues -- all religions and even secular systems of thoughts -- will accept Christ in the process of reconciling all our hearts and minds to unify in the spirit of truth and love for all. Whether we make this choice out of love, out of desperation when physical life fails us, or out of 'survival of the fittest,' history shows that people eventually choose what fulfills us all spiritually, which the message of Christianity offers.

The Scriptures prophesy that "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess." And indeed all religions and even pre-Christian myths foretell that a spiritual Messiah will come to bring final salvation. All religions have a different way of naming or describing this process. For example, Buddha spoke of a Maitreya Buddha who would come once, and then return a second time to enlighten the world. Even the goal of secular activists to work for the day that "Justice will come" is the same as Jesus coming to bring peace on earth. And individuals or whole cultures who experience painful spiritual growth through a recovery or grieving process following great tragedy or loss, collectively go through the same process as Jesus dying on the cross to be resurrected.

Since this is a universal theme across religions and cultures, it makes sense that Jesus Christ on the Cross serves as a central symbol of that ultimate break in the vicious cycle of karmic sin and suffering so that humanity can be reconciled with God, and spiritual harmony restored on earth as we visualize in heaven.

All people and all groups will need to come to a common understanding in Christ or by conscience in order to reach this final mature stage in our spiritual process. But in that understanding, so will all religions and cultures be equally recognized and all included. Christianity is not exclusive but all inclusive, so that the message calls to all people.

No one has to give up their past traditions in order to accept Christ, who ultimately fulfills any laws or teachings whether sacred or secular; but one has to understand the meaning of Christ in order to embrace all people and traditions equally as neighbors. Because Christ serves as that universal link joining us all, that is why so many different people from different cultures and points in history have recognized and accepted Christ as a natural stage in human spiritual development.

Answer 2

Well, first of all it saying that Christianity is the world's largest religion is something of a misnomer since there are hundreds of varying and incongruent belief systems under the umbrella "Christian" title. (Try asking a dozen different self-proclaimed "Christians" how to get to heavan and who will make it etc. They will give completely different answers) Islam is the fasted growing religion, and may soon overtake it.
To answer your question about why places like the Phillipines became predominately Christian, the answer is that basically they were forced to convert. The Spanish (and English and French and other conquering European nations) slaughtered millions of native peoples and told the rest to convert or die (or some variant of that theme). Eventually, those native religions just died out. No one remembered how to practice them, or their practices were absorbed into and sometimes became its own sect of Christianity.
By the way, Jesus has been dead for over 2,000 years, if he ever existed in the first place. I would hope that if he was real and all that certain Christians claim him to be, he would have had nothing to do with the actual reason that much of the world claims the title of Christian.

Answer 3

Christianity just killed the most people. They were lucky and were the dominant religion in this place, that place and the other place just as those places were being "helped" which also means they were being invaded, their people slaughtered and such. "Follow our god and all this will stop!" "You'll leave the women and children alone?" "So long as you agree that women are beneath you!"

... that's not talking about the religion, the last bit, and its sentimentality, but the way people worked "back then" they were all ignorant. Of course taking over a country, forcing your religion down their throats, murdering and raping the women and children and burning villages to the ground is helping! When I help little old ladies across the street I also run them over with my car.

Answer 4

It's a psychological formula... it has also been successfully used by kidnappers to get the kidnapped to actually join the kidnaper's side.

1: Make someone feel worthless
2: Offer them a way to escape the worthlessness
3: Threaten them with punishment if they stray
4: Through all of this give the impression of love

It's become known as brainwashing and is very effective.

Answer 5

because they were willing to change their religion to look like a new form of the religion of the people that they were trying to assymilate. and if that did not work they were willing to force them to convert through torture and extermination.

because they avtively go out and offer help to people that desperatly need it but require that they listen to them babble about god and Jesus the whole time.

Answer 6

The Christians were the ones with the guns.

Answer 7

People seek truth.

The word of God is the truth, and Chrisitanity use the word of God as their text.

It touches your spirit, not your mind. When you embrace it, a whole other part of you opens up, your spiritual side.

Just my opinion...thanks for asking!

Answer 8

sorry, but you have your facts wrong. It is not the largest religion in the world.

Answer 9

i guess theres alotta retards

Answer 10

Because Jesus is the LIVING WORD..