Hi Arc,
The differences are so myriad it would take a few books to write it all. Short beginning though; having been enabled to see how depraved and unworthy i am of anything from GOD. I can without any hesitation give All Praise And Glory To GOD And our Lord Jesus Christ for All that i and every human being ever born will be in due time.
Knowing how to love without expecting anything in return is a Precious Gift From GOD; i am learning how to use that Gift daily. Judging without condemnation is another Gift that i am learning to use; It Is Good.
Having for many years known that Religions of humanity is mans way to be gods; and Christianity IS GOD'S WAY To man; without the deeper understanding of this. Now the Gift Of Discernment comes into the fray, i can start to see and understand why; GOD DOES THINGS EXACTLY THIS WAY for humanity.1Co 2: 9-16 (MKJV)9 But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
10 But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.
16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
This could go on for several pages but i will stop here for now, more later.george.