What is the link between Judaism, Christianity and ISlam?

Question

is there any?

Answer 1

To think that they are all similar is to distort and edit their message. They are all very different, aside from the fact that they all claim to believe in the same God: The one and only true God.

Aside from this they are quite different, although they are closely linked historically.

Judaism is by far the oldest: We don't know how long ago that some early Israelites began to believe in one unearthly god named "Yahweh" instead of all of the many earthly gods that other cultures worshiped.

But we know they started writing down what would become the "Old Testament" around 800 BCE.

Then, about 800 years later in 30 CE, a firebrand reformist Jew arrived on the world stage. He cast demons out of people and healed the sick and taught that God was about to bring His kingdom to earth soon. This man was named Yeshua bar Yehosef (Jesus to you and me). He had a profound effect on everyone who knew him and when he came to Jerusalem to preach at the Temple, he alarmed the Jewish and Roman authorities so much that they feared revolt (High Priest Caiaphas feared a religious "revolt", while Procurator Pontius Pilate feared a civil disobedience uprising at best, and a military uprising at worst). Jesus was executed but his movement changed and grew into what we now call Christianity.

Then, almost 600 years later, in 610 CE, an Arab man named Mohammed* claimed that the Archangel Michael visited him in a city called Mecca and had begun to recite to him the final message to mankind from God.

The Archangel Michael is an important figure in both Judaism and Christianity. And from the beginning, Mohammed's teachings claimed to be a continuation and a completion of the work "Yahweh" had begun with the prophets of Judaism and with Jesus of Nazareth.

Muslims think that Jesus is just a man, not God Himself in human form. They think that Jesus was very important and was "anointed" by God to perform God's work -- but they don't think Jesus died for our sins. In fact, Mohammed's ideas about what Jesus taught and what the life of Jesus meant are very different from orthodox Christianity.

When Muslims speak of "Allah", they mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They mean the same God who parted the Red Sea for Moses and the same God that Jesus called "Father".

However, to think that Islam unifies all three of these religions, you must first discard just about everything Jesus says in the Gospels.

Here are just a few examples of the conflicts between Jesus' teachings and the teachings of Islam:

-- Jesus rejected laws about food, saying that what came OUT of your mouth makes you "unclean", not what you put IN your mouth. Islam still maintains the old food taboos against pork, shellfish, and other foods very carefully.

-- One of Jesus' first miracles was to turn water into wine. The gospels show Jesus drinking wine all the time (though he never drank to get drunk). And, BTW, this was not grape juice: without refrigeration grape juice quickly becomes a fly-infested sticky mess. Islam condemns all consumption of alcohol.

-- More importantly, Jesus tells us not to fight with the evil man, but rather to fight him with kindness. Jesus NEVER preached war but only love and understanding and compassion. Jesus spoke angrily against those who did unjust and wicked things, but he never advocated killing them. Islam, however, claims that Allah wants people to be killed for all kinds of reasons. It is true that you can be a Christian and still support war and the death penalty -- just don't say that Jesus wants it. War and retribution may be necessary in this world, but they are all part of our original sinful condition.

SHORT ANSWER: These religions are linked by history but all have very different and conflicting beliefs not only about morality and about God, but even about what real historical figures did and said -- e.g., Moses and Jesus.

* Peace and blessings will be upon him if God exists and if God chooses to bless this man. I have no say in the matter because I have no divine powers and I am not arrogant enough to claim to know for sure that Mohammed is right and everyone else in the world is wrong. I am educated enough not to go around adding religious recitations like "peace be upon him" every time I utter someone's name.

Answer 2

Judaism and Christianity both worship the same God. Islam placed a claim on the Jewish God through Abraham's son which is false, Ishmael is no more the starter of Islam than I am. What the perpetrators of this lie forgot Moslems existed during, before and after Abraham. Presented with this fact a Moslem has no answer. Islam is a warrior’s code written by a terrorist that made his income raiding caravans. Islam was a worship of the moon god as outlined in early Saudi Arabian history. We can spin it any way you want to but what it boils down to; we are in a war between the religion of the Hebrew God “I AM” and the moon god of Islam. By religious war Judaism, Christianity, and all non believers against Islam

Answer 3

Christianity worships the same God that Judaism does. Christianity is what the Holy Spirit started to replace Judaism once the Jews rejected Jesus. Islam was started by Mohammad about 600 years later and is not a part of either. It had a real bad history.
Today it is all about Jesus-and nothing else.

Answer 4

They are all monotheistic religions that developed in the Middle East. Also they have a number of teachings in common. However, they are VERY different in a number of points. Jesus Christ was a Jew and his teachings (and thus Christianity) depend on the religion of the Jews. Islam claims that Jews and Christians altered their holy books, and that the Koran is the only correct version of the religion that Judaism and Christianity perverted. However, a lot of the stories in the Koran are taken from the scriptures of the Jews and the Christians.

Answer 5

of course

they are the three major Abramatic religions meaning they all claim decendancey from Abraham.

Judaism came first as the ancestors of Jacob (Abraham's grandson) accepted the Torah from G-d at Mt Sinai

latter Christianity developed directly from Judaism with the belief that Jesus was the son of G-d and the messiah

after that Islam developed and based is monotheistic practices on Judaism and Christianity.

the thing that they all have is faith in one ultimate creator of the universe. After that it becomes complicated...

Answer 6

Christianity was a jewish sect seeking to make "the one god of the jewish nation" -- "the one God of all nations, above which there can be no other." Islam arose as a defense against Chrisitan Soldiers, under the banner of Emperor Constantine, whose purpose was to bring all peoples to Christianity. Moslems took a leaf from the New Testament, created their own prophet in the person of Mohammet, wrote the Koran, and is known as the last of the "Three Religions of the Book."

Answer 7

The link between all souls in more than one could ever comprehend past human limitations. Religious doctrines barely scratch the surface.

If you dropped a glass vase on the floor and it broke into several pieces, would those pieces no longer be called a vase. They are now separate from the whole.

But what if you glued all those peices back together? It would again be called a vase. It would again become whole. Yet, slightly different than before.

The wavelength of "God, Allah, Yahway", etc, is in a very simular flux.

We are all a peice of that vase returning our expereinces to the knowledge of the whole.

We venture out, then retract to do it all over again depending on how we choose to reinvent ourselves.
New Creation=Expereince=Knowledge =New Creation. You then see how it resolves.

Answer 8

They are the religions which were taught by the prophets of the same God, Allah..

Judaism, by prophet Moses peace and blessings be upon him
Christianity by Jesus Christ peace and blessings be upon him
Islam, by the last of the prophets of God, Muhammed peace and blessings be upon him..

They all taught that there is no deity worthy of worship except God, but then Jews rejected Jesus and became infidels by that, and Christians praised Jesus as a God and a son of God, while God has no son nor daughter, as To Him Belongs all what is in heaven and earth..
And Muslims have believed in both Moses and Jesus and also Muhammed, and they have better chance to go to paradise more than today's jews and christians...

NOTE: those jews who followed Moses right, before the coming of Jesus, are considered good Muslims in Islam, and they will go to Paradise, and the same will happen with those who believed in Christ before the coming of Muhammed peace and blessings be upon him, as long they did not believe he was God or son of God.. and Allah knows best.

Answer 9

The link is this: All three religions (and Bah'ai) stem from covenants God made with Abraham. Judaism and Christianity stem from the covenant with Isaac, and Islam and Bah'ai stem from the covenant with Ishmael.

Answer 10

The Old Testament

Answer 11

Christianity is different then any of those there is not any link.