Similarities between Islam and Christianity

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(WARNING: Both christianity and islam is fiction! They are not different from zeus, odin or mithra.)

Christianity islam and judaism known as abrahamic religions. Muslims recognize ishmael, the first son of abraham as 'the father of arabs'and Ishac, the second son of abraham as 'the father of jews'. (So they are relatives isn't that ironic?)
And a rumour claims that ishmael is the ancestor of Muhammed. I haven't found any historical evidence to confirm that. Probably muhammed made this up in order to fortify his claim as a prophet.

Relation between islam and christianity is accepted among christians at some level.
a document which chatholical teachings gathered "The Catechism of the Catholic Church" mentions muslims; "Church's reletionship with msulims: Salvation plan includes the ones who has knowledge about the creator. And muslims come head of this. They who clearly declare their beliefs to abraham and believe in the same, one, merciful god and he will judge humanity in judgement day." (this is my translation from a turkish source)

Quran confirms many events and characters which is mentioned in bible. Moreover according to islam bible sent to jesus by allah.
But islam claims that some parts of old testement were either lost or corrupted through time and became today's bible.

Christians too believe that Old Testament is the words of Moses himself(and therefor god's). Furthermore christians
believe that the Book of Psalms is not entirely writen by David. In fact they believe at least one of the psalms written after
500 years after David's birth.
Some events like second coming of masiah and fight between devil is exsist in islam. But not all has same meaning.
Most of the stories in bible is in quran aswell.for example noah's ark, story of abraham, jonah and the big fish
Quran explains the birth of jesus in surah Maryam(19.) click here to read this verses

[chasm]

The believe in the same God. That's enough similarity for me.

[DeistPaladin]

They both believe in an afterlife that features a judgment by their god followed by an eternity either in a place of punishment (Hell) or reward (Heaven).

The exact criteria on which their god evaluates what our fate should be varies but both believe that being part of their religion is a critical part.

Their apologists sound remarkably similar, using virtually the same arguments and fallacies. For example, both will tell you about the "scientific insights" of their scripture (which always collapse under close examination).

The hajib was originally a Christian practice in Egypt prior to Islam. You can see the influence in the nun's habit as well as other conservative and old fashioned methods of dress for women. Looking back at costumes of previous ages shows that covering your hair and most of your body was considered proper for women.

Both have strange ideas of "morality". They both demonize victimless crimes like idolatry, blasphemy and homosexuality. Read either the Bible or the Koran cover-to-cover and you'll find that terms like "evil" typically are used to condemn one of these three, despite how such practices are harmful to no one. Similarly, "righteous" usually refers not to genuinely good behavior but to faith and the practice of rituals.

They both have hatred for Jews, gays, pagans, atheists, polytheists and advocates of certain discoveries of science. Fundamentalists in both camps will often quickly forget their differences and team up against any of these groups. The pro-Israel lobby within American fundamentalism is an anomaly explained by how Israel is a means to the end of bringing Jesus back.

[Minimalist]

The pro-Israel lobby within American fundamentalism is an anomaly explained by how Israel is a means to the end of bringing Jesus back.

Even the dumbest Israeli is not fooled, however. They know that their new-found xtian buddies expect them to die for ole jesus.


They'll take the money but I doubt they buy the bullshit.

[Entropist]

From the essay, "The New Gods," by E.M. Cioran, on the difference between the pagan polytheism with the rise of monotheism in the west:

"Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified and provisional. There is an underlying polytheism in liberal democracy (call it unconscious polytheism); conversely, every authoritarian regime partakes in a disguised monotheism. Curious, the effects of monotheistic logic: a pagan, once he became a Christian, tended toward intolerance..."

[solja247]

Islam is not Intrinsic, it stole its ideas and traditions from Christians and Jews...

[Minimalist]

And xtians stole most of their ideas from the Greeks or Romans and the Jews stole most of their ideas from the Zoroastrians?

So what?

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So what?

So stealing is a common habit in religions..

And again I will try to explain why Allah and christian's god is same.

Think about the evolution theory. Someone can add new thesis in this theory by showing evidence. Becouse the evolution theory is created based on evidences. And by showing evidences on the contrary you can change this theory And one can claim this is the extension or correction of the evulotion theory.
When it comes to religions, christianity in our case, your claims have no evidence to stand for. Therefor people who wants to change it, doesn't need to have evidence. Telling that this is the correction of christianity is enough to change it. You may not believe in him. But you can not deny him either.In order to deny him you have to have evidences. So, If he is telling that their god is the one in christianity then it is...

[DeistPaladin]

So what?

So stealing is a common habit in religions..

Religion is like art. ...well, except that with one you can find depth and meaning, powerful story telling, a sense of awe and the sublime and, in its literature, profound wisdom and guidance in life. Religion provides none of that.

OK, OK, religion is like art in one specific respect: it changes over time (contrary to efforts of orthodoxy) especially as different cultures influence each other.

Reading the OT reveals how Judaism changed over time. First, there was no afterlife. Then, there were vague ideas of the afterlife. By the NT, they'd fully incorporated Greco-Roman ideas along with many others. Judea was located at the juncture of three continents and represented a vital step in trade routes. It seems only natural that such a syncratic religion as Christianity would eventually develop there.

And, of course, Muhammad got his revelation from a god based partly on the Roman world and partly on his own culture. Odd how this god Yahweh-Allah only speaks to people in that area of the world, huh?

[Minimalist]

Religion provides none of that.