Christianity and Islam

There are many differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity. The main similarity between the two religions is the belief in one God. The main difference between the two religions is the divine character of Jesus and Muhammad was a prophet, and only that. I will come back to these similarities and differences in a bit.

Like I mentioned earlier, both religions worship only a one God (Christians worship Yahweh, and Muslims worship Allah). The Muslims view Allah as the supreme God, much like the Christians view God. Both religions are revolved around the idea of surrendering everything to God. Both religions also believe that in order to communicate to God, you must pray. Both religions also believe that god created the entire universe.

Both religions also have prophets that delivered God's message to the people. The difference between these two prophets is that Christians believe Jesus is divine and Muhammad was nothing more than a prophet. This is considered to be the biggest difference between these two religions.

The Christian prophet, Jesus, is also a part of the trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). The Muslims do not believe in the trinity. They believe that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was his prophet. Christians believe that Jesus was fully man, but fully God at the same time.

So now we've looked at some of the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam. They are pretty similar religions, considering the fact that they both only worship one God and believe that God is the creator of the universe. But they also have their differences. They have different thoughts about Jesus and Muhammad.

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Wilkinson, Philip. Islam. New York: DK, 2002