Hold on a minute If Adam and Eve were the start of mankind and christians and muslims both believe we came from Adam and Eve why are we fighting amongst ourselves.
So give your views on this, Coz I can't figure out why we both believe practicly the same but are ready to kill one another.
2006-08-11 01:45:16 · 37 answers · asked by Osh Aka Oisinmagic 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Something to do with a guy trying to build a tower to reach God in heaven and God spreading them all out over the world with different launguages.
2006-08-11 01:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by maryjoy m 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
religion originated with Abraham's race, because on the way from adam and eve to abraham, people lost their way and forgot about god and started worshipping statues and suns and stuff...and Abraham was the first to feel god's presence and believe in him, and people followed him from then on..Therefore at this point, there's a God.
With time, prophecies were written about how Jesus will visit and how God does exist and hence were the Jews.
Jesus came and hence was Christianity..some jews didn't believe that it is indeed the jesus mentioned in the prophecies, and are thus still jews and not christians.
Christians believe that Jesus was the last one to come and tht he is the savior, so when Mohammed claimed he was the last prophet, christians didn't believe he was really sent from god, and those who did, became Muslims.
They do not believe the same thing that much, in essence perhaps, but their application is very different.
I hope this answered your question.
2006-08-11 01:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Sue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no friends. You have to go a little ahead in the Bible. In Genesis you will find Abraham. God promised Abraham that he would have a son in which the covenant of God would be fulfilled. Abraham was very old at that time and his wife Sarai was also very old and began to doubt whether or not God would comply his promise (always the problem of the the incredulity of people).
Hence Sarai following the custom of that time asked Abraham to have a children with her Egyptian maid Agar. Abraham did not ask God about this petition of sarai and accepted, Then Agar bore Ismael and Ismael is the very origin of the Arabs and the origin of Islam.
God faithful as always complied the promise made to Abraham and made that Sarai bore Isaac and in that son God complied his promise. Isaac is the very origin of the Jewish people. As you will surely notice, yes they come from the same source that is Abraham, who in the end is also descendant from Adam and Eve.
Your are right when you said that there is no reason for hatred, but I guess that it is incorrect to have stereotypes and to say that all muslims want to kill Christian.
It is the radical religiosity that causes problems and not the Spirituality.
Someone like Bush that interprets the Bible in an incorrect manner can say that God is asking him to attack one country and because of that many muslims may think that all Christians want to kill the muslims.
It is exactly the same the other way rouns. Not all muslims or Jewish are terrorists. People with real Spirituality will understand the message of truth and love that lies beneath the Q'uran, the Torah and the Bible, but it requires to studysaid books and not to try to learn what they teach through what other people or the TV says.
Hatred comes from ignorance of God. When you are a real searcher of the truth you will find that the path to God is always through real love and truth.
People who wishes to murder knows nothing about God and only takes religious texts as pretexts for their hatred. That is not God, they have nothing of God.
2006-08-11 02:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by Carpe Thoreau 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
But that is pretty much where the similarities end. They then branch off onto Adam and Eve's offspring. Where they lived what they believed, therefore what they taught their children and so forth. As teir became more people they started branching off into different parts of the land forming different cultures. So while we all come from Adam and Eve the difference now is the cultures we all now live in.
2006-08-11 01:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by knightslady97 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It started with Abrahams sons. There was a prophesy that Abraham would have a son and through this son, Abraham would be the father of many nations, Sara (later changed to Sarah) would give birth and this was strange because she was barren, Abraham decided to 'help' God out. So he and his wife decided that Abraham would lie with Hagar, Sarah's maid, and have a child by her. This was not how God had planned it, obviously, as extramarital sexual relations aren't really how God does things. This son was named Ismael/ Ishmael. Meanwhile, Sarah fell pregnant and had a son and he was named Isaac. The prophesy was not withheld and both sons came to be the father of 'many nations'. Under Ishmael came the Islamic faith, and under Isaac, came the Jewish faith, which later under Christ, God's Son, became the Christian Faith.
The Three faiths believe in the same first five books of scripture. As far as Christ goes, His only Son, the one who God uses to redeem the world to himself, the views are very different.
God chose the Jews to reveal his son to, but as the prophesies say, he would be rejected by his own (Is 51 52 53 54).
Jesus did not leave who he is open to question. Either he is who he says he is, or he was a liar, or he was insane. This is the question that differentiates the faiths.
2006-08-11 02:03:25 · answer #5 · answered by phantaszjia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason might be deep but the answer is obvious. There are a few black sheeps in every community. Its like sibling rivalry, most cases they forget that they are after all 'family'. Brothers in Faith and Brother in humanity - which holds more true?
The solution is to forget the differences for once and come to common terms. - Differences fade away -
“O human kind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into Nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (Not that ye may despise each other).
Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (one who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well-acquainted (with all things).” (49:13) -
2006-08-11 03:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by lamine_3926 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy. Religion is being used as an excuse like it always has been for centuries. The truth is that it is just people that want to terrorise the world and they think they can get away with it. Real people don't see a person as black or white or spiritualist or Muslim, they see them as being a person. Ever heard the saying strangers are Friends that have not yet met?
2006-08-11 01:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by Susie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, alot of cultures and religions believe tht we started from Adam and Eve...but it depends on who put tehm here in teh first place.......Im just going to through something at you and see what you think. My CCD class last year came up with the conclusion tht (since we are catholic) god put bacteria which formed in other things and more evoling took place until.....Adam and Eve...they say tht they are the first human beings on Earth. No offense, but how would anyone know? Why would it be in the bible, they they were the first. I think they were only the first RECORDED human beings on earth...bc surely somewhere else there was more ppl living. ^_^ If anything, god didnt just plop ppl of earth, he had to make something before tht (if he did make all life on earth)
2006-08-11 01:54:12 · answer #8 · answered by ~*~Smile~*~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
O.k, right... The ten commadments say thou must not fornicate with siblings or parents, right? so how did the rest of the population come along by just, adam, eve and cain and abel? I have questioned the bible so many times Ive lost my religion but I too wish for a better world without violence!
2006-08-11 03:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by Nikki Rox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it may be all down to the different preachers ie. Jesus and Prophet Mohammed also i think that this also has occured because manyu people split up people from religion so the one religion will only be around thier religion and not others as people don't want to mix, even though in some places in the world everyone is together(like The United Kindom) where i live everyone are friends and we are like one big family...
2006-08-11 02:08:52 · answer #10 · answered by DoodleBob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't know. Maybe that's the only thing that they can agree on. >_> I mean seriously, The Jews, Christian's, and Muslims have quite a bit in common, but how they interpret it is different I suppose.
Why do siblings fight? It's the same thing really.
2006-08-11 01:49:18 · answer #11 · answered by Pixie-elf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋