Am I wrong when I read that the Muslims are very sim to Chritianity and Judaism in respect to biblical charact

Question

like Abraham(sacrifice his son), soddam and gomorra, etc. Is it we all are worshiping the same God just under different interpretations?
And if thats so, why cant we all just get along?

I just reAD that Muslims in Iraq were celebrating Eid al-Adha. The observation of Abrahams willingnes to donate his own son to Allah. Now there over there slaughtering cows and stuff in memory. Man I cant believe how sim we all are. I last killed a hog for a graduation party. lol

Answer 1

You have NO IDEA how different we really are!

Answer 2

All three are based on the same mythology. They all worship the god of Abraham.

The main question is who was Jesus?

For the Jews he was a false messiah. Just another of a whole glut of messiahs that were around at that time.

For the Christians he was the true messiah. They don't really like to talk about all the other ones, but would claim that they were fakes.

For the Muslims he was not a messiah and never claimed to be, he was another prophet, as was Mohamed.



You would think that an omnipotent god could clear this up pretty quickly.

Carving 200 ft high letters into the Rockies with a message saying "The Jews Are Right", or whatever would put this to bed pretty quickly and we could all stop killing each other over it.

Answer 3

Our similarities far outweigh our differences. Which is why it distresses me so that we have not make more progress when it comes to religious tolerance. We've made more headway on it in the US though even then there are those in all faiths who would undo what has been done, to whit some of the comments by some of the respondents to your question. That these people profess to be "christians" is deeply troubling since they have spend little time learning the teachings of Christ.

The beauty of our faith is that it comes from within. If you don't believe, then you can have no faith regardless of what beliefs you profess to have. As such, within our own hearts we are all correct.

The sad thing is that we can't agree to leave each person to his or her own faith and respect our differences. Heck, even within the multitude of Christian faiths we can't agree. Some say that Jesus is the ONLY God, whilst most agree (within Christianity anyway) that He is the SON of God. Then of course there is the Holy Trinity -- the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- a concept rejected (or ignored depending upon your perspective) by many Christian faiths.

Where we do have a meeting of the minds and faiths among Jews, Christians, and Muslims is in the existence of God, by whatever name we know Him. Those who would murder or harm others in His Holy Name are the ones who are damned to suffer the fires of hell for eternity as the consorts of Satan and Ibliss. In all honesty, a true non-believer who treats his brother man with respect and dignity stands a far better chance of entering the Kingdom of Heaven than some Bible-thumping or Kuran-wielding killer preaching hatred and intolerance.

Answer 4

Jews, Muslims and Christians all believe in the same God. However, they disagree on Jesus being the son of God. The Christians believe he is the son of God. Muslims believe that Jesus was a phropet of God but not his son. Jews believe that Jesus was not a phropet or the son. Both Muslims and Jews believe that the son of God is yet to come.
Each religon has it's bible.. the Jews have the Old Testament, the Muslims have the Koran ( written by Muhammad, a phropet of God) and the Christians have the New testament.
So although they all believe in the same God and general principles the three religons are very different in fundamental ways.

Answer 5

Muslims believe that Abraham is the father of both Jews and Arabs. We also believe that Jesus was a great prophet and honor him.
Generally, Muslims, Christians and Jews believe in the same God...the religious foundation is the same.
Mohammad's aim was to bring the different denominations together into one great faith but the Jews who were very set in their cultural ways ignored him. The Christians of Mohammad's day didn't hate him but could not envision another prophet outshining their Jesus.
Not getting along may be more cultural and political than religious.

Answer 6

Judaism and Islam have some similarities, but many differences.

Judaism and Christianity are profoundly different and in fact they are mutually exclusive: a person cannot be both.

OMAR - no Jew ever says that. you should not speak on behalf of Jews when you clearly don't know what you are talking about!

EDIT TO TERRELL - you are 99% right :) But Jews are not waiting for the 'son of G-d' as we believe ALL people are the children of G-d. We are waiting for the real messiah, yes, but he or she will be a normal mortal, and in no way divine.

KAGANATE - great answer. The only thing I would like to note is that it makes no sense if anyone says that Judaism 'imitated' Islam because Judaism predates Islam by a rather long time... :)

Answer 7

The "Hebrew Bible" or the set of stories that Jews take as the basis of their belief as the same as "The Old Testament" of the Chrisitans.
The "Koran" and "Hadits" are the set of stories on which Islam is based. As a whole this is very similar to the "Bible" but there are differences. Some say this is based on paralel oral transmission of the same corpus of stories, others say that Mohammed "ripped off" the Chrisian and Jewish stories and changed them (likewise, some Muslims say that the Jews purposefuly altered their stories). The truth is somewhere in between (except, as a storyteller, I'd use "adopted" rather than ripped off) as Islam was born in a very cosmopolitan region and was first espoused by well traveled (and probably well storied) merchants.
Both Jews and Arabs agree that they come from two sons of Abraham and both have the tradition that the Arabs at some point "lapsed" from the Abrahamic tradition into polytheism and that Mohammed returned them to Monotheism - and that he had Jewish alies in doing so.

Theologicaly, both Jews and Muslims believe in a timeless, transcendent God while Chrisitans believe in a cyclical God (ie: he dies and is reborn and his sacrifice is necessary to the well-being of the world).

As for why we can't all get along - How well do you get along with your siblings? Its human nature to ingroup and outgroup. When you add politics and social difficulties to that nature - and leaders who like to scapegoat - and people who need to blame others for their failures - you get ethnic/ religious/ cultural conflict.
Add to that the problem that Christianity and Islam are "world religions" - they both believe that it is necessary for everyone in the world to have their religion.

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Stefan - Atheism is as religious a belief as any theistic religion - an Atheist believes and will fight for an unprovable belief that there was no rational creator. As for violence in the name of religion - we have already had a couple of regimes which tortured and murdered in the name of Atheism (its just that theistic theocrasies have had a longer history - and thus a longer time to commit uggliness).

tas - the fundamentalist readings are as valid as tolerant ones. In fact, quite often they are easier to find in the uncommented text. It is a mistake to say the fundamentalists misunderstand - but as the existentialists would say - we all create God in our image.

Sherry - not all Muslims want women to "wear tents". This is just an unfortunate modern political situation. If we judged the religions by their fundamentalist manifestations, I should point to you over a thousand years of "killing for Jesus" (to quote the Dead Milkmen).
The bit about the moon God is substantialy less than provable. Its about as valid as the medieval Christian propaganda that the Muslims worship Apollo and sacrifice Christians to him. Certainly doesn't help us all get along.

terellmingus - Jews are not waiting for "the son of God." Jews believe all people are children of God (for instance, when Pharaoh threatens to kill the Jewish children, God says "Jacob is my first born son." (in Exodus) Also, when the Egyptians soldiers are dying in the Reed Sea and the Angels start to sing - GOd stops them saying "My children are dying - how dare you rejoice!?" (extra Biblical Jewish story - in the Passover Haggadah))
Jews are wating for the Messiah (a king descended from the line of David) some Christians say that this is "the anti-Christ", nicer Chrisitans say that the Jews missed the first coming and are waiting on the second.
The Muslims as a whole (I believe) are not waiting for anyone. Though there are Muslim sects which are waiting for a final great leader who may be characterised as Messianic.

Fatima - Many leading Jewish commentators have said very positive things about Islam as a religion for non-Jews. The Koran records that Mohamed had Jewish allies and many Mulsim governments have fascilitated Jewish worship and culture. But the Jews believe that they have a set of commandments that God gave them to keep specificaly differently than the rest of the world - so even those Jews in full agreement with Mohammed's plan for a world unifying Monotheism must continue to keep their own rules.

Answer 8

Jews do not believe that Jesus is god as well not just that
they call him a bastard or a son of sin
at least Muslims believe he was a miracle and born from a virgin mother and believe also in all his miracles like healing the blind and so on
p.s i would love to know from where some of u bring this b.s
(the moon god) don't ask a Jew nor a christian about Islam that is stupid if u wanna know something about Islam ask a Muslim so please get your mind straitened

Answer 9

because generally speaking, Christians in particular, but I'm pretty sure both christians and muslims, consider themselves to be exclusively correct.

interestingly, (at least in a way) Judaism does NOT hold this view. (Judaism does not consider itself the only "true" way or anything like that)

edit: oh, and at least by Jewish standards, calling any that has or had human form, "God" is idolotry.
in a way one could probably even say that calling a person who was a living man "God" is an even worse idolotry and blasphemy than worship of an actual graven idol. as with an idol one could argue that its just a proxy, a representation (like how catholics assert to get around all their statues) where if your focus is a person... well its a person.

edit 2) And if you study even further, no1, you will find that the God of Christianity has very little in common with the God of Judaism.

Answer 10

as i am a christian i know that our main religius moral is we need to aim good things and we should also select the right paths but many other religions aim good things itself but they tell that we can select any cruel way as it for the achievement of a good thing. this is the main difference. if we need to help a poor man, we don't hav money with us, we hav two alternative ways to help that person - (1) we can go and ask a wealthy man to help him and he he don't listen to us we can hurt him to let him help the poor., (2) we can go and ask the wealthy man and if he don't listen then we can plead to him on and on till he help the poor people to avoid our nuisances

WHICH IS BETTER?

Answer 11

it is very similar except in islam they don't believe Jesus Christ was crucified. men sometimes commit follies in the name of religion just because they have misunderstood the holy books and fall into extremities. they don't take the meaning of the words at face value and just read between the lines to suit themselves. u might want to read the english version of the Quran