Islam and Christianity :: Religion Religious Chirstian Islamic Essays

Islam and ChristianityThere be hundreds of religions in this world. Of them two are the most prominent. Islam and Christianity. It is averaged that on that point are 750 million people practicing Islam, and another 1 billion practicing Christianity. The start of Islam is actu each(prenominal)y derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one darkness in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from theology by representation of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus birth, Jesus of course is the interrupt of Christianity). The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God (Identical to the line of the decade Commandments), not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was antecedent of the world (In Christianity, its documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the promised lands and the earth), and He would one day attempt mankind (This is in any cas e true in Christianity The Lord will assay his people. Hebrews 1030). Both of these religions share almost the same framework, but they also differ in many ways.The word Islam means surrender or submission, submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic belief of Islam is brief There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Islam teaches that there is one God, the creator and sustainer of the universe. This God, Allah, is compassionate and just. Because He is compassionate, He calls all people to believe in Him and worship Him. Because He is also just, on the Last Day He will judge every individual according to his deeds. On the Last Day, all the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. In Christianity one of the Ten Commandments states that I am the Lord you God.....you shall have no other gods in the first place me, also identical to Islam God is considered the cr eator of the universe, and he is also just. On the last day, or judgment day, the same holds true as in Islam in the Christian beliefs, the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. Mankind is regarded as the crown of creation, entrusted by God with management of the whole created order. In Christianity this was Adam, who had dominion over all the animals and beasts of the earth.