Can Jesus settle the interpretation differences between Christianity and Islam?

Question

Jesus said the greatest commandment is to worship God with all you heart, mind and soul. Doesn't that settle the issue?

Allah is God in Arabic

Answer 1

Dear Elliottandel:

Yes ! It does settle it. Jesus never intended His Parables to lead to separation between Brothers. His intention in teaching through Parables was to get your mind working and contemplating.

Jesus said, "Follow thou Me." He was - remember - teaching disciples who had the ability to sit with Him and listen to everything He said - not just the few parables we, of a later time, received. The disciples could sit and listen and ask questions of Him and receive the insights they needed. He would have discussed, at length, anything they questioned. I know this - for He still is teaching and I have learned directly from Him. He simply, today, enters into the Mind and speaks within you. The One Mind is His vehicle. He discusses - for as long as is necessary - whatever confusions you have about any reading material. He becomes your Teacher when you invite Him to do so. People think after He Ascended, He no longer taught one-on-one. That is not correct. He remains our Teacher. Just ask Him - and you shall see !

Interpretations were not His thought - He wanted you to hear Him, understand and follow.

Answer 2

It would if Christians and Muslims agreed about who Jesus is. Because Jesus did indeed teach us to love God with all our heart, soul and strength. However, if you read the whole Bible carefully, you'll find out that there are certain things that just don't make sense unless you assume Jesus was much more than a prophet:

How could He redeem us from our sins if He was just a prophet?

How could He claim 'Before Abraham was, I AM', if He was just a prophet?

How could Jesus claim that He had life in Himself, the authority to lay down His life, and the authority to take it back up again, if He was just a prophet?

And there are lots of other things in the Old Testament, clearly applying only to God, which are applied to Jesus in the New Testament.

So, while there may even be Muslims who understand that salvation is by grace through faith, who are trusting only in God and words that they believe to be Scripture straight from His mouth for their redemption - yeah, there is a very real difference. The prime difference is basically this: Who Jesus is and what He did for us.

Answer 3

This is the way I see it

There are too many people in this world for any one group to say they are the one true religion and everyone else is doomed. God is love, right? God is not going to turn his back on all the people that have been faithful servants being Christians, Muslims or whatever. Believe in and fear god, worship god, don't sin, be loving to others and you should be cool. There's only one God (Jehovah, Allah, whatever you call him) everyone just worships him a bit differently.

Answer 4

The main differences between Islam & Christianity: 1- Trinity, Muslims believe there is only one God who has no son. 2- Jesus, Muslims belive he is a great prophet of God, not son of God, that he was raised to heaven, and waiting for his second coming. 3- Gospel, Muslims believe that the NT was written by people and not the true Gospel of Jesus. 4- Muhammed, Christians do not believe in Muhammed as a prophet. 5- Quran, Christians believe that Quran is a book & written by people (while not and this is very complicated issue that I cannot explain). Judaism & Islam, there are many similarities, the differences are that: 1- Muslims believe that Jews altered their book (Torah). 2- Jews don't believe in Muhammed & Jesus, 2 prophets that Islam conised belief in them as one of the Islamic faith principles. About killing the non-Muslims: That was during a war, Quran instructed Muslims to kill the nonbelievers for selfdefense. I hope this clarify it for you.

Answer 5

In his expected second coming Jesus son of Mary will settle the differences between Christianity and Islam and he will follow and preach Islam, and those Christians who claim that they love and worship him today will reject him and follow the antichrist and I am just telling the truth and one day every body will know the truth.

Answer 6

It kind of does. We have to understand that in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God, where in Islam he is the Messenger/Prophet of God. Both religions have the same story of Jesus, but different concept of who he was/why he was sent here... son or prophet.

Answer 7

Worship God... NOT allah... islam is the greatest evil facing the world today.

There is absolutly no concection between God and the evil that is islam.

Answer 8

Jesus was a Jew from the West Bank. If he were here now he'd be busy dodging missiles fired by Islamic anti-Semites.

Answer 9

No it doesn't. Jesus also said, "I and the father are one", "If you have seen the Son, you have seen Father." "The Father is in me as I am in the Father." "No man comes to the father, except through me." These verses, plus about 100+ more, show Jesus saying he is God. Jesus is called the Son of God all throughout the Bible. islamists believe that Jesus was not God, was not the son of God, do not believe in the trinity, & do not rely upon Jesus for salvation. The do however believe, (contrary to the Bible) Jesus was muslim, Mary (his mother) was muslim, Abraham (father of the nation of Isreal) was muslim. They do not believe in salvation through Jesus, they believe they have to work their way into heaven. That's why so many of them blow themselves up, thinking they can get in that way. And there are so many other ways Christianity and islam are different. They will never see eye to eye. The way of Christianity is salvation through faith in Jesus and forgiveness to all who believe. The way of islam is oppression. In islam, they tell them to kill anyone who doesn't convert to islam. In Christianity, they tell you to pray for them. Big difference.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, no. God does not exist and all of the different man-made religions begun eons ago simply continue to widen the divide between people and cultures.