what came first Islam or Christianity?

Question

and does Islam reject jesus's existence?

Answer 1

Christianity, by about 6 hundred years. Jesus is a prophet, nothing more.

Answer 2

Islam was invented by MUhammad 600 years after Christ. Muhammad repackaged Meccan polytheism as monotheism in a bid to take ove the lucrative religious pilgrimmage industry of Mecca.

The Jesus of Islam has little to do with the historical Jesus of the Gospels. Muhammad incorporated a lot of apocryphal Gnostic fables about Jesus into his religion in an attempt to make it more palatable to the Christians. He failed to get many Meccan converts by repackaging Arab polytheism. He failed to get any Jewish converts by repackaging Judaism. Apparently he didn't learn from these failures when he repackaged Christianity. He never quite grasped the concept that the written word will trump memorized poetry every time. The only reason Islam is a concern today is the brutal and totalitarian way that it was propagated and maintained.

Muhammad taught that Jesus did not die on the cross, did not rise from the dead, and was not the son of God, but only a prophet.

Answer 3

Mohammed claimed to be visited by an angel and given the Koran in the year 660 A.D. (I think) so that would have been the start of Islam.

By Christianity, I assume you mean the church that Jesus Christ established in the first century A.D.

So that would mean Christianity came first.

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Islam does not reject the existence of Jesus, per se. They highly regard him as a prophet. The same as they reverence Abraham, and Moses. However, they strongly reject the christian view that Jesus is the Son of God, and they reject that He was crucified at all.

Answer 4

Christianity came first, and my understanding is (and I hope someone corrects me if I am wrong) that Islam does not deny the existence of Jesus, just the divinity of Jesus. They believe Him to be a prophet - which is why they write (pbuh) after they use His name

Now here I'm shaky - I don't think they believe Jesus died on the cross - much less was resurrected.

Answer 5

Conventional thinking says Islam came first, but really Islam has been there all along. Now you're probably thinking...WHAT? See Adam was a prophet of God, just like the rest of them (Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Solomon, David, etc.) Muslims believe in all those prophets and they all came with the same message, which is THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NONE BESIDES HIM. Mohammad is the last one in this chain of prophets and he came with the final word of God, the Quran.

We do not reject Jesus, jews do. He was the messiah. But he was not God incarnate of the son of God. He was a prophet.

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Answer 6

Islam came after Jesus by several hundred years.
Islam does not reject Jesus as a prophet, but they believe that Muhammad was the FINAL prophet

Answer 7

What is the best kiss you ever gave? Your first one or the latter ones?

Silly baby arguements. Everything in nature developes from an inferior state to a more excellent state, from a crude state to a more refined state, from a immature state to a matured state. The first of anything is not the best.

The first time a baby took a stand trying to learn how to walk it fell many times before it finally perfected it's stand. The aim of nature is excellence. Your first time trying to talk wasn't your best speech, the first time you made love with your spouse it wasn't the best.

Therefore, it's a principle in nature to struggle and strive for excellence and more refinement until is achieve perfection. With difficulties comes the ease. G-d being the object of our worship who is perfect with no imperfections in Him, we will always be pursing or striving towards perfection.

What difference it makes which came first?

Neither is the G-d who created everything. G-d is first before there was nothing in existence and He will be here when everything elses passes away.

The one G-d who created everything is the one who sent messengers with guidance from Himself and from that came the religions as G-d willed it.

The point is this if you haven't gotten it already, there is a progression from a beginning stage to a latter stage. They are part of one continous line of progression that is connected and we shouldn't be trying to see them seperated and isolated from it's previous line of progression.

We have to go through one phase to get to the other phase. Just like we are here on this earth first but what we hope to come latter after we pass away is not this earth but paradise, heaven something that is more superior to what we are in now.

G-d is the author of both the first stage and that latter stage. He is the one who sent Jesus (upon him be peace) first, and He is the one who sent Muhammed (upon him be peace) latter.

Muhammed the prayers and peace be upon him is report to have said that in the end Christ Jesus and himself will be togehter. That they will be seen as one, not seperated from each other. That he and Jesus will be seen as neccessary compliments of each other.

They in the plan of G-d are alreaday one, but the time will come where the followers of both of them will finally come to agree with each other that Jesus and Muhammed are the same from the same source, G-d the Creator.

G-d is First.

In the message context of what He revealed to His messengers scriptures says that the first shall become the last and last shall become the first. Therefore, if you want to make the silly baby arguementa which is first, and are saying that christianity was before Islam - there will come a time that christianity will become the last while Islam becomes the first.

G-d says in the Qur'an to think for thinking profits the believer....

Answer 8

Christianity came first and according to Islamic beliefs, Jesus is not the son of God but rather a prophet.

Answer 9

Islam came some 600 years later and they deny the divinity of Christ

Answer 10

Hinduism came before Christianity and Islam. Maybe you should ask Shiva for forgiveness.

Answer 11

No Muslim can explain this:

Islam says Muhammad believed Jesus was (only) a Prophet of God. If so, why didn't Muhammad obey Jesus' teachings from God? And why aren’t Islamics obeying him? If it is as they claim that it’s because the record of Jesus’ teachings were corrupted by Christians and not preserved by God (as they say all writings of God are) then that means Jesus was not of God, making Muhammad a liar (and therefore a false prophet, and not to be followed).

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