What are the connections between Islam and Cristianism?I cant find something simple enough by these theo.docs.

Answer 1

According to Islamic beliefs, God sent many prophets to guide us humans. These prophets included Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, Jesus, Muhammad (may God's peace be upon them all), etc.

All these prophets taught mankind the same thing: Believe in God, do not worship anyone besides him, obey his commands, be kind to people, believe in the last day (the day we will all be judged by God), and believe in a life after death.

Many generations after each prophet, his message was lost or corrupted. Then God would send more messengers with essentially the same message.

God's final messenger to humanity is Muhammad. God's revealed book to him is known as the Quran, and it is God's final revelation for us humans. The quran will last uncorrupted till the end of time, because God will not send anymore prophets so he has promised to protect the Book himself from corruption.

The basic message of Islam is that all humans are equal in the eyes of God, regardless of race, color, language, physical features, etc. Those who believe and do more good deeds, and are more God concious are closer to him.

God is the most merciful....He loves us more than a mother could possibaly love her child. He says in the Quran, "O my servents who have sinned against their souls excessively, do NOT despair of God's mercy".

The differences between Islam and Christianity are rooted in the nature of Jesus. Muslims believe that he was a prophet of God, sent to the nation of Israel. God sent him with many miracles, because he was the last prophet sent exclusively to Israel. Muslims also believe that Mary was a Virgin and Jesus's miraculous birth was also a sign of his prophethood for the Jews. We do not believe that he was the son of God or part of a trinity.

We also believe that he was not killed on the cross. God saved him and took him up to heaven alive. The person who died on the cross was someone (perhaps Judas) who God made to appear as Jesus to the Roman soldiers.

We believe, as do Christians, that he will return again and do battle against the anti-Christ. Believing Muslims and Christians will follow him, and he will establish peace of earth.

Answer 2

Religions think that if they talk nice about the other religion's founders/leaders, then people who only nominally follow their parent's religion will be more likely to convert to their religions. This is the probably the reason Mohamed talked positively about Moses and Jesus. But, outside of talking nicely, the doctrines taught by Moses (Old Testament) and Jesus (New Testament) strongly contradict the teachings of Mohamed. If the Moslem religion existed when Moses was alive they would have come after him with their armies like Pharoah did. If the Moslem religion existed when Jesus was on earth they would have tried to stone Him like the Jewish religious leaders did. The only true connections between Christianity and Islam is that they are both monotheistic religions (believe in only one God), and they both can trace the development of their heritage to the same man, Abraham. The religions forked apart the very first generation after Abraham - the JudeoChristian heritage went with Abraham's son Isaac and the Moslem heritage honors and follows Abraham's son Ishmael. The two sons hated each -other and had little else in common beyond their father Abraham.

Answer 3

Well, that is kind of a tricky question, and I pray to our Loving God that the answer does not offend anyone, as I am only attempting to state facts...
Some will have you believe Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Having said that, Christians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is God who came down and incarnated and was crisified and resurrected for mankind's sins and and thus Christians worship Him,
where as Muslims do not believe so, and thus it is hard to make such a connection.

Both of them are decendants of the same Jewish Abrahamic religion. However, somewhere along the line, the decendant line that went to Saudi Arabia has lost touch with the Jews who witnessed the coming of Christ, and thus moved on to follow the begining and continuing of the Islamic Religion on the hands of the self-proclaimed prophet, Mohamed.

So as you can see, they both operate on separate tangets and different direction. Which is true? I suppose that is not for me to convince you unless you seek the reasoning and truth yourself, and Only God Himself can revele that to you if you ask Him to do so.

God bless you my friend.

Answer 4

The connection between Islam and Christianity is Abraham. He was the father of both Isaac (Christianity & Judaism) and Ishmael (Islam). Both decendents were followed by other prophets and eventually the Judaism (Jewish decendents of Abraham) brought about the birth of Jesus who is the Messiah and this was the beginning of Christianity. The Jews rejected Jesus as their messiah and so the Christians were rejected by the Jews and thus you have three religions that were rooted in one man who was Abraham.

Answer 5

I'll be quite honest I don't see any. In the bible Jesus Christ is central. Even in the old testimony there are plenty and accurate prohechies about Jesus. I believe the book of Isaiah mentions a couple of them. And so for muslims to believe he is just a prophet (that raises a huge red flag up there). Instead of Lord and Savior. So there is no connection, two distinctinve and different religions. We worship Jesus, they worship something. What that something is I don't know. They say that their god is our god, but from the looks of it that's impossible, not only impossible buy unfeasable.

Answer 6

same Abraham at the start of things.
Moses and Jesus were prophets of the God, but their teachings were misinterpreted, so their followers are evil.
Instead, Muslims believe in their own prophet - Muhammad.

Answer 7

there is no connection.
Christianity is of God.
other religions such as Islam, who deny that Jesus Christ is God, are of the devil and are false religions desighned to decieve.
you are either for God or against Him....
there is NO neutral ground.

Answer 8

We have the same god.
Muhammed stated that we do, and he's the founder of the religion.

Answer 9

It's CHRISTIANITY!