There are three world religions,known collectively as the 'Abrahamic Religions" .Viz Judaism,Christianity and Islam. They each worship the same one God;YHWH, whom the Muslims call 'Allah'.
Christians accept YHWH (Yahweh/Jehovah) as the creator and accept the Torah as the word of God. Muslims revere the prophets (including Jesus) and much of the Qur'an was lifted from the Torah.
The original belief systems become moot and irrelevant: Diverse sets of woo were replaced by another set of woo modified to reflect the needs and nature of the cultures concerned.
Religions always reflect the people and cultures which use them. The beliefs and holy books of the Abrahamic Faiths are so contradictory,that every believer has to cherry pick to come up with an emphasis. Christianity accommodates MotherTheresa and Fred Phelps,with with most believers less extreme in either direction.
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Christians accept YHWH (Yahweh/Jehovah) as the creator and accept the Torah as the word of God. Muslims revere the prophets (including Jesus) and much of the Qur'an was lifted from the Torah.
The original belief systems become moot and irrelevant: Diverse sets of woo were replaced by another set of woo modified to reflect the needs and nature of the cultures concerned.
Religions always reflect the people and cultures which use them. The beliefs and holy books of the Abrahamic Faiths are so contradictory,that every believer has to cherry pick to come up with an emphasis. Christianity accommodates MotherTheresa and Fred Phelps,with with most believers less extreme in either direction.
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Quote: In religion, Abrahamic religion is the designation used for monotheistic faiths emphasizing and tracing their common origin to Abraham.[1] Judaism regards itself as the religion of the descendants of Jacob, grandson of Abraham, the direct descendant of Shem, the favoured son of Noah, who founded the human race following the Flood. Christianity began as a sect of Judaism in the 1st century AD and rapidly evolved into a separate religion with distinctive beliefs and practices, notably its replacement of the Jewish idea of an exclusive ethnic religious community with an inclusive, universal community, the Christian Church. Islam was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century CE upon the teachings in the Quran, which draws on Judaism, Christianity and native Arab traditions; its distinctive innovation was to retain the universalism of Christianity while replacing its complex concepts of the nature of God─a deity who is simultaneously one and three─with a clear monotheism.
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