"My answer is Jesus Christ"

I was reading this excerpt in my devotional book, which has a reading for the day taken from How to Teach the Book of Hebrews by Yoon-Sung Park which I found amusing, yet revealing. I'm reproducing a portion of it here.

Sundar Singh, the Indian Christian missionary, used to be like the Apostle Paul, criticizing and persecuting Christianity. But after experiencing a conversion similiar to Paul's, he became a minister and poured all his energy into preaching the Gospel to Hindus.

Once, Sundar Singh was visiting England when a professor of theology asked him, "You converted from Hinduism to Christianity. What is something Hinduism lacks that Christianity has?" Singh's answer was simple. "That is Jesus Christ." The professor was unsatisfied with the answer and asked again. "Isn't there some kind of special teaching or doctrine that is clearly different from your former religion?" "No. There is no special teaching or doctrine. It was the Living Jesus Christ that converted me." However, the professor was still unsatisfied. "Mr Singh, I don't think my question is getting across to you. What I'm asking you is what thought or philosophy of Christianity was different from Hinduism that made you follow it so fervently?" To this, Sundar Singh gave the same answer, " That would be Jesus Christ."

One might think, that's because the professor was a theologian, but on second thought, it's actually very common. The amusing part was when the professor says "I don't think my question is getting across to you" when it's actually the other way around where the answer was not getting across to him. Don't we often ask something and when we don't get the answer we want or expect, keep questioning?

It is sometimes beyond human comprehension how simple the answer to our salvation is. There's no need for too much reasoning, just simple faith and belief. We often think too much of matters and question "Is that really (really) all we need?" or "You mean it's that simple?".