Islam versus Judaism

[KerimF]

Well, Christianity just cribs off of Judaism and adds some more stuff using the Torah as a basis. Then Islam cribs off of Judaism and Christianity and adds more stuff using the Torah and the rest of the Bible as a basis.  It's not really surprising that they have a lot of things common, especially the old origin stories.  Don't forget, Jesus is a power player in Islam too, they just say he wasn't the son of God and wasn't crucified.

Most of what you said is indeed right.

I was born in a Catholic family. My schools were Catholic French ones (in Aleppo city, Syria, where I was born, more than 6 decades ago, and still live in).
But when I was about 16, I was real surprised by discovering that most teachings of my priests and of every well-defined Christian Church I heard of ignore many of what Jesus says (as written on my Catholic Arabic Gospel), and some of them even oppose his teachings in a clever way.

In brief, I discovered since long that the today's Christianity is just about the man-made systems that are created in the name of Jesus while they have nothing to do with the essence of his teachings (as they are written on the today's Gospel). But I am afraid that exploring now how this can happen (and why) would be off topic.

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Abraham started something that was ESPECIALLY prone to mutating, or schisms, if that is the better term for religio stuff.

Seems like if God had indeed imbued Abraham with the One True Faith, it might have persisted . . .  . .

For a few men to control many other ones, different versions of the Absolute (in religions and politics) had to be created to let people gather in groups that each of them could be guided by its own Absolute (actually by the representatives of their Absolute). It is another clever trick that has worked always in the human jungle.

In reality, any truth is always relative to the observer; much like the Relativity in modern physics that most people on earth couldn't grasp well yet