Same source etc, but different religions ?

[Mister Agenda]

Christianity and judaism parted ways after Christ came because the jewish establishment wouldn't accept him as the anticipated messiah, but the first christians were jews. Prior to that they share the same history. I not all that familiar with the history of Islam, but I think Muhammad claimed to have direct revelation from God and believed that jews and christians had interpreted events incorrectly. Perhaps one of the muslim members can clarify this.

I think to get at the root of Islam, it helps to understand how divisive different interpretations of the divine status of Jesus were. Christians were slaughtering each other left and right over them. Islam is an attempt to 'solve' the Gordian Knot of what exactly it means to be the Son of God by reducing Jesus to prophet status and declaring God to be Unity instead of Trinity.