2007-09-23 04:44:00 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The question is completely sincere.
Did I not qualify the answers distinctly enough?
I want a reasoned, intelligent answer, the type that Soren Kierkegaard would give.
2007-09-23 04:56:06 · update #1
It isn't that I can't tell the difference, or that I am trying to offend anyone. I am an agnostic leaning towards atheist and my nephew is a Christian who wants to debate, so I'm trying to get perspective on the subject.
2007-09-23 05:06:05 · update #2
Christian Intellectuals is not an oxymoron:
Isaac Newton
Rene DesCartes
Francis Collins
2007-09-23 05:18:48 · update #3
Oh boy.
2007-09-23 04:46:43 · answer #1 · answered by Hope 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
This is a great question... However, you are trying to get water from a stone. The best you could hope for is a Ken Hovind-like straw man argument. Something any real intellectual could show was a fallacy.
The Abrahamic religions are not really any different... although their subscribers would like to think so. They all believe in the same basic texts and start out with the same "god," same places, same people, same creation...
Islam and Christianity added on some prophets of their own, and the Jewish people are still waiting for one. Only difference.
2007-09-23 05:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I wished you'd pick Hindu or Buddhism, because I'd be a little hard pressed to come up with some convincing arguments.
Qur’an:9:88 ,9:5 ,9:112 ,9:29 ,8:39 ,8:39 ,9:38 ,9:123 ,8:73 ,8:5 ,24:53 ,
4:74 ,4:75 ,4:76 ,4:77 ,4:78 ,4:84 ,4:94 ,4:95,4:100
Go read the text.
My God says don't kill. My Jesus says those who live by the sword die by the sword.
Go read the Qur'an.
2007-09-23 05:00:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hi!You don't!I don't think religion or religious inclinations are a thing for debate.Just like any single individual, a little respect is just what is needed. You may not agree to the dogmas of Christianity or to any other religion for that matter but you don't have the right to criticize either.All religions basically teach the same basic principles of what is good and what is right and they all worship a certain Someone who is above everyone else.No religion is more superior than the other...
2007-09-23 04:56:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you repent and put trust in Christ as your Saviour, you get real spiritual blessings not available (and not understood in) in Mohammedanism:
1) We are forgiven all our sins, and regarded as "in Christ", so spotless in God's sight
>>Unique to christians: There is a real atonement here: our sins are paid for by Jesus, the Lamb of God, i.e. ultimate sacrifice. (Possibly Old Covenant may still work for Jews - I'm unsure on that point. They had their 'Day of Atonement', Yom Kippur, recently).
2) We are born-again, that is the (hidden) spirit in us is recreated so we can know God directly
>>Unique to christians: Being born-again is only available when a person believes on Christ.
3) We receive the Holy Spirit
>>Unique to christians: The Holy Spirit, who did empower some Old Testament prophets, priests and a few kings, is fully available because He is given to christians by God the Father and Jesus in response to faith in Christ.
Also Christianity and Islam do have different conceptions of salvation. Actually Mohammed cannot according to the teaching of the New Testament actually be a messenger of God as he contradicted the expensive salvation Christ provided. He had revelations from an angel, but the NT makes it clear that angels of Satan pretend to be God's angels to try and deceive people (to divert them from the real message of salvation).
2007-09-23 06:03:32 · answer #5 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean modern Christiantity or the original Christianity? If you want to compare originial Christianity with Islam, then yes they are like sister religions. There are many aspects of the original Christianity that are similiar, if not exactly, like Islam. For example, in Islam it is prohibited to apply interest to a loan, the same in the original Christianity. Another example, the 10 commandments, the same in Christianity as in Islam. Another one is the prophets, Islam and Christianity have the same prophets; although in Islam, Muslims give preference to Prophet Mohammad and Christians give preference to Jesus. Not to digress, but Catholics have the same sort of mannerisms you'd find amongst Muslims. There are many more examples of similiarities between Islam and Christianity, I will not name them all, there are alot of them. If anyone is really interested in learning about the correlations in Islam and Christianity, just go to your local bookstore or library and research it.
2007-09-23 05:10:27 · answer #6 · answered by hells_grannies 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you open your heart and actually try to believe something you will see that is makes your life much better and more fruitful. I can make you a list of my friends and family and take those who have faith, and take those who make it a hobby of being atheists, and then show you who has a better life.
I saw with my own eyes that faith in God gives you more oportunities and a better, more fruitful and happy life.
May not be true for everyone, but I have seen it in my life. I put my faith in God and he has taken care of me. It doesnt mean I dont have to work, or everything is just given to me, it means that I have "the chance". People without God dont really have a chance.
2007-09-23 04:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Insightful question, whether you meant it to be or not! They are different though connected religions, Islam fulfilling Christianity, meant by their founders for a different time and place in history, relgions with the same underlying reality, as are all the revealed religions throughout history. Consider religion as an ever-advancing spiritual and social process that carries humanity kicking and screaming to ever-advancing unities from clan to tribe to village to city to state to nation to planet.
2007-09-23 04:50:01 · answer #8 · answered by jaicee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course you should. I am a muslim, I dont want to be regarded the same as Christians.
They are POLYTHEISM and we are MONOTHEISM.
It's quite a different concept.
Our God is THE ALMIGHTY, THE ONE WHO SENT Jesus down, THE ONE WHO DOESN'T NEED flesh. NOT BEGETS ,NOR BEGOTTEN.
We are not hypocrites . People smack us we smack them back.
Sometimes we restrained as our worship to THE ALMIGHTY, but very rare, we are human. We'll not allow anybody to disgrace us. Even if we are poor.
So please, dont regard Islam as the same with Christianity. NEVER !!
We dont hate the people, we dont care what they want to believe. We dont hate their religion either, we just dont want to be regarded the same. It's good if you regard the two religion different. It is DIFFERENT .
Thanks.
2007-09-23 05:37:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anna S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is the only belief that rscognizes God as Holy, man as sinful, and the need for man's sin to be atoned in order for a Holy God to have relationship with sinful man. Christianity is the only belief that provides a once for all sacrafice for the sin of man that comes through the atoning blood of a Christ who while God, emptied Himself and took on the limitations of a human man that He might first hand know the sufferings and temptations that we endure because of the lusts of the flesh. Christianity is the only belief that not only provides the sacrafice that unites a sinful man to a Holy God, but also a sacrafice that has conquered the throws of physical death to rise again to full life and then acts as an intercessor for those who believe in Him to Holy God the Father. Christianity is the only belief that offers eternal life that is gained at the point of belief and relies solely on the finished work of the Christ at Calvery and not that work of a man, who by his own good works, reconciles himself to God. Christianity, unlike Islam, shows salvation to be the gift it truly is, requiring no sacrafice or obedience, but merely belief. Relationship requires sacrafice and obedience with God. But not eternal life, which comes only be belief alone in the work of the Christ alone. Ask yourself this: If you could force someone to love and obey you, would you do it? If you could and did, would it be receiving from them real love that comes through choice? Or would it be as through compulsion and coercion? The true God gives total choice through total free will. Because He desires a love that is real and not a love that is compulsatory. Allah on the other hand is a God who gives no choice but rather demands obedience for eternal life. Allah promises those gifts in eternity that will no longer be required when the flesh is dead and we are spirit, such as virgins, sex...etc. Allah's word teaches that his salvation for man comes by force through the threat of the sword. This creates compulsion. While God threatens eternal hell for rejection of His Christ's atoning work, it is rejection of belief in His atoning work and not disobedience to Him, that gives a man what he has sought all of his life....total seperation from God eternally (hell). Islam offers no blessing, rather suffering, as is evidenced in the poverty ridden and murderous ways of predominately Muslim countries. Christians are a blessed people enjoying the protections of a loving God the Father and an unbreakable bond of marriage to His Holy Son the Christ. God also protects Isreal, His chosen, yet lost people. Allah hates the Jew and the Christian because Allah is a false God that is the the head of a false religion that is propped up by the real enemy of God, Satan.
2007-09-23 05:19:10 · answer #10 · answered by Brad S 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think you should regard Christianity any more than Islam. I think you should regard Jesus Christ as God Almighty and call yourself anything you want. God does not care about our titles, He only cares about our hearts and our devotion to Him. Jesus Christ is God Almighty, believe this and worship Him and feel free to give yourself whatever religious affiliation you feel most comfortable with. I happen to feel most comfortable with the title "Born Again Christian" but I feel equally comfortable being affiliated with "Baptist" or "Non-Denominational Christian" I try not to worry so much about what I call myself, rather, I am more concerned with what I call God and He calls me. God Bless You.
2007-09-23 04:55:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋