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C.S. Lewis once had an analogy I found interesting. This is a paraphrase of how I remember it. It has been quite a while since i ran across the original text.
he compared many other religions to candles. certainly, candles give off a certain amount of light. you are definitely better off with a candle in the dark than with nothing at all. a candle illuminates a few things, but is unable to convey the detail and scope of your surroundings.
Christ is like the sun. like the candle, the sun gives off light... but to an infinitely greater degree. knowing the light of a candle may be useful in understanding what the sun actually is, but having the sun makes the candle useless. the sun's nature is partially revealed in the candle, but it can do what no amount of candles can do: give the life that the sun gives.
a candle is only usefull until morning.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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