Moslems, you say Christianity and Islam are close? Can you explain how?

Question

I have been looking into religious QA since yesterday as I hope some of my answers are going to be answered. I have spoken to Moslems, Christians and Hindus online. Because of My beliefs about Jesus I am often an outsider to Christianity and Hinduism is a bit to weird to me. Islam was not looking so great because of the comments I read from people, but I started looking at the questions moslems post and the answers and their blogs and I found many are not as bad as people make you out to be. Is it Moslems or Muslims? Any way I do not want to bother you guys if you want you can email me at [e-mail]. I am not from Egypt, I just like egyptian stuff.

Please see my previous question and you will understand why I feel like an outsider:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar_cUV4T24EAewwIHR45UaPsy6IX?qid=20061128032559AAPTIhE

(Ps. I really had no thought eve to talk to moslems until I visited the site tonight and red the pages of several muslim ladies)

Answer 1

Hope to clear any of your doubts or any questions you may have regarding Islam.

you may contact me at [e-mail]

There are many things which i would really love to explain especially those misconceptions. However, its seriously wide.
Hope to hear from you if you have any queries.

Answer 2

Hi there.

Many Moslems in muslim-dominated countries are nominal, meaning they really don't follow Koran as some say they should. This means that they can love what they believe in without actually knowing what this book says (similar to christians that often don't read the whole bible). Being "relaxed" muslims they are just as sweet as me and you in daily life. You might take example from Tom Cruise which is a hugely popular actor and very attentive to his fans and nice to talk to. He also is a follower of Scientology which believes in Aliens and other such stuff to smile from.

Unfortunately some people like Bin Laden does read the whole Koran, and when also having a lot of money and people with guns in Pakistan/Afghan border, he used the Koran to justify sending his Arab friends to blow up the Twin-towers among others.

When you have read a little more about Islam here and there, I invite you to read some articles from a site that allows you to check each point for yourself;

Hope this helps,
Samson

ps: I love Egypt-things too. Have you reflected over what tourists travel to Egypt for? Not for anything Islamic but to learn about the original non-Islamic culture of the Farao. Just a thought..

Answer 3

When muslims say islam is similar to Christianity they are lying. Islam is more of a government than a religion in that it seeks to dominate the world and will use mass violence when possible to gain ground. For those of you who point to the Crusades and say Christians also behave in this manner I remind you that the crusades were in responce to hundreds of years of muslim aggression, and the Crusades had to be fought to keep muslims from murdering every Christian in Europe. Now we must repeat the Crusades, and for a similar reason. Muslims are attacking innocent people all over the world, while Christians send missionaries to try to feed and clothe the people the muslims are trying to murder. Look at Sudan...

Answer 4

I am a Christian, and would like to answer. There is nothing Christians have in common with muslims. They don't believe the Holy Bible is God's Word. They don't believe Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. They don't even believe Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son.

I found this site to answer questions about what they really believe, biblebelievers.org.au/moongod. htm

I don't hate any muslim person, my prayers are for them to read the whole Bible and find the real truth.

Answer 5

hundreds of years ago, both were close OK.
They believe in a great god, close values, etc.

Now the values are different, spiritual things are absent, and from both sides by degrees.

Current Politics is a catastrophe.

I am as a Muslim don't see any christian values nowadays.
President Bush and his conservatives don't show me any values.

The Muslims are afraid of their values to be lost in the hands of their leaders who are impressed by the greed of power and suppression.

Answer 6

both religions belive that thier is only one god, they both also belive in jesus but christians believe he was the sone of god and muslims believe he was a just a prophet but not the son of god
both these religions shooted from the jews

Answer 7

religions are certain guidelines for spiritual life,
individual's qualities...
it is often spoilt by intelectualizations coming from political,cultural and all other reasons

Answer 8

We muslim believe in all prophets (pbu them all) of GOD including JESUS (pbuh) as commanded by GOD. Unlike christanity they don't follow JESUS (pbuh) but they follow paul.

Answer 9

hi Ms. cleopatra.:plz have patience to read it all,

Muslims believe that Allah has been revealing Himself to mankind since the beginning of time. This revelation began with Prophet Adam (peace be upon him), the first man, and continued throughout history until the time of Muhammad (peace be upon him), the last of the Prophets and Allah's seal on all that had been revealed.

Up until the time of Muhammad (peace be upon him), different prophets had revealed part of Allah's plan. This was given to different people and was meant for them and their time. The revelation to Moses, then, was for the Children of Israel of his day. The revelation to Jesus was also to a people in their own time. The message to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), as revealed in the ever-glorious Qur'an, was meant for all people in every age, and for all time.

Muslims take great pride in knowing that the Qur'an is totally unaltered since it was first revealed. The Qur'an that we read today is exactly the same as the Qur'an revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him). In proof of this, different copies of the Qur'an from different centuries and from different parts of the world, all show to be exactly the same. Nothing in them is different. This is most important, since Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the exact words of Almighty Allah as first revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him).

As for the revelation to other Prophets, we do not have a complete record. Muslims believe that a book was revealed to Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him), but nothing of this book remains today. Muslims also believe that the message revealed to the Jews and the message revealed to Jesus (peace be upon him) is no longer to be found in its original form.

It is not the belief of Muslims that the unaltered originals of these books exist somewhere in the world today. The exact revelation to Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them both) has been lost. What we have today, in the form of the Old Testament and the New Testament was created by men and has gone through significant alteration and translation over the centuries.

Let us take the Christian Gospels, for example, and in doing this we intend no slight on what Christians believe. There were many written versions of the Gospel. "Gospel" means "Good News". A Gospel is not meant to be a biography of Jesus. If it was supposed to be biography, we would see that different Gospels say different things which often contradict each other. No, the Gospels say things about Jesus and who he was.

Of the many Gospels written, the Christian Church has chosen four for its scriptures. Even Biblical scholars would not suggest that the words attributed to Jesus in these Gospels are necessarily the words that Jesus spoke. In a sense, the Gospel writers put these words into Jesus' mouth to highlight different parts of his teaching, for example about love or about peace.

I must repeat that in saying this, no criticism is implied of Christianity. No one is suggesting that the Gospel writers maliciously altered the words revealed to Jesus. On the contrary, out of an exaggerated love for him they attributed things to him which they believed to be true. In doing so, though, the original words of Jesus and the original message revealed to him, were lost. They no longer exist today. We can no longer say with certainty that Jesus said this or that or that he (peace be upon him) did this or that.

The result of these changes, then is that the basis of what the Jews and the Christians believe has become distorted over time and is the creation of men, rather than the revelation of Almighty Allah. Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus (peace be upon them all) were all prophets of Allah.

The message that was revealed to the Jews, though, has been altered through translation and re-printing and re-telling. The Jews came to believe that a Messiah would restore their Kingdom and that they, alone, are the Chosen People of God.

"Yahweh," by the way, is simply the Hebrew word for God. "Allah" is the Arabic word, used by all Arabs, whether they are Christian or Muslim. Christians, out of an exaggerated love for Jesus, began to see him as more than human, God's Son, who came to redeem the world from the effects of Adam's sin.

It would take many pages to explain this properly, but this summary tries to explain why Christians, Muslims and Jews differ to this day, even though they were all a part of the original revelation. The Jews believe that God's revelation ended with the Old Testament and they now await the coming of a Messiah. Christians believe God's revelation to have ended in the person of Jesus, who was that Messiah. Neither of these religions, then, accept that Islam adds anything to what God had wanted to say.

Muslims, of course, believe that the message revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him) was a continuation of what had been revealed to both Christians and Jews, and was the completion of it. This is why Muslims honor all previous prophets, but also why the Jews and the Christians do not honor Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a Prophet.

In terms of similarities, the three religions have much in common. Much of the moral code in all three is shared. All three believe in one God, although the Christian understanding of this is complicated by the idea of the Trinity.

For Muslims, then, Christians and Jews are people of the Book, since Allah spoke to both of them through his prophets and messengers. As Muslims we hold both Judaism and Christianity in high regard, since both grow out of the revelation of Almighty Allah.

However, as Muslims, we believe that Islam (an Arabic word coming from a root word which means both "submission" and "peace") is the fullness of Allah's message for mankind. Muslims believe that Islam has existed since the beginning of time and that it is the natural religion of mankind.

Islam is the world's religion of peace, in which men and women find their total fulfillment and happiness in submitting to the will of Allah, who knows and controls all things.


peace sister , may god guide u to the right path.