"The theological claim that sets Christianity apart from any other faith tradition is the Incarnation. God has come into the world to save us. God became like us to bring us back to God and show us what it means to be truly human."
I respect Jim Wallis enormously, but this statement, quoted from this article, is simply not true. Hinduism also has an "incarnation" tradition of avatars, wherein God incarnates to redeem a fallen humanity, as does Tibetan Buddhism, wherein deities and Boddhisattvas incarnate.
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"The theological claim that sets Christianity apart from any other faith tradition is the Incarnation. God has come into the world to save us. God became like us to bring us back to God and show us what it means to be truly human."
I respect Jim Wallis enormously, but this statement, quoted from this article, is simply not true. Hinduism also has an "incarnation" tradition of avatars, wherein God incarnates to redeem a fallen humanity, as does Tibetan Buddhism, wherein deities and Boddhisattvas incarnate.