Why Christ Came to Earth 

"You may remember from Shakespeare the famous speech of Mark Anthony over Caesar.  He said, 'I will show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths and bid them speak for me.'  Instead of showing you Caesar's wounds, I shall show you the wounds of Christ, who is both God and man, the only one who ever came to this earth to die and to conquer it.  You and I came into the world to offer his life for us.  And so he founded a new type of religion. All other religions, without exception, go from man to God, either by contemplation or by a kind of mortification and self-denial.  One, for example, is the eightfold path of Buddha. But with our blessed Lord, religion comes from God to man.  We need help and, particularly, redemption from sin."