Common between Islam and Christianity?

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I wonder what is the most common between Christianity and Islam!
I have my friend in University and she follows Islam.
One point of question says – Is the ‘Judgment Day’ in Christianity referred the same way as ‘the day of Qayamat’ in Islam?
 
Nancy121 said:
I wonder what is the most common between Christianity and Islam!
I have my friend in University and she follows Islam.
One point of question says – Is the ‘Judgment Day’ in Christianity referred the same way as ‘the day of Qayamat’ in Islam?
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Since Muhammad created his religion from his misunderstanding of Christianity, along with a few dabs of paganism (Allah is a pagan moon-god), it’s not surprising that there are some similarities.
 
water said:
Real religions must have one thing in common - Love.
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I appreciate - Love is the most common virtue that is among all religions.
But my question has arose from one discussion with one of my Islam friends as I have mentioned!

Thanks! 🙂
 
There are some similarities. I won’t go into the end times now about Qiyamat etc. Some branches of the Jews did not believe in the accounatbility of the next world. But Jesus spoke about it and confirmed it. So does the Quran. That is one similarity.
  1. Both religions emanate from the same earlier source, i.e. belong to the Abraham’s seed.
  2. Both religions believe in spiritualism. The christians had the monks and so did the Muslims have saints.
  3. The christians love jesus. So do the Muslims.
  4. Christians believe that Jesus was the man of God. So do the Muslims.
  5. The christians believe that Jesus was right or righteous. So do the Muslims.
  6. The christians believe that Jesus was a messenger of God. The Muslims also believe that he was a messenger of God.
  7. The christians believe that Jesus was a Jew. The Muslims also believe that Jesus was a Jew and all his friends good Jews.
  8. The christians believe that Jesus suffered for the sake of his people. The Muslims also believe that he suffered very much on the cross.
  9. The christians believe that Jesus was alive after the laying in the tomb. The Muslims also believe that Jesus was walking about after coming out of the tomb.
There may be many more similarities. But I cannot recall now. Will some friend please inform about any other similarities that I may have missed. Please remember that we are trying to discuss the similarities and not the conflicting matters.

I may add that the christians believe in the Torah. The Muslims also believe in the Torah.

The christians believe in bible (Injeel) as a sacred book. The Muslims also believe in the Injeel as the sacred book given to Jesus. (I will come back with more… later)
 
Thank you very much!
This has been indeed an excellent reply with specifications!
I appreciate!
 
Hi Nancy,

Welcome to CAF…

For your question regrading he most common between Christianity and Islam, in addition to what “planten” mentioned (except for #9), one thing that I can add that both Christianity and Islam affirms that Jesus was not born from a biological father, other than that, everything else is different & questionable (specially Yahweh/God The Most High, God, Allah).

And for your question regarding the Judgment Day between the two religions, no, there are many different things between them, more information here in this link, however, one of the things according to Islam, that Jesus wouldn’t be able to help anyone on that day, yet Muhammed can!, here is the hadith for it:

Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0373:
“…Allah would gather people on the Day of Resurrection and they would be concerned about it, and Ibn Ubaid said. They would get a Divine inspiration about it, and would say: If we could seek intercession with our Lord, we may be relieved from this predicament of ours. He (the Holy Prophet) said: They would come to Adam andsay, Thou art Adam, the father of mankind. Allah created thee with His own hand and breathed unto thee of His Spirit and commanded the angels and they prostrated before thee. So intercede for us with thy Lords, that He may relieve us from this position of ours. He would say: I am not in a position to do this, and would recall his error, and would fight shy of his Lord on account of that; go to Noah the first messenger (after me) sent by Allah. He (the Holy Prophet) said: So they would come to Noah (peace be upon him). He would say: I am not in a position to do that for you, and recall his fault which he had committed, and would fight shy of his Lord on account of that, (and would say): You better go to Ibrahim (peace be upon him) whom Allah took for a friend. They would come to Ibrahim (peace be upon him) and he would say: I am not in a position to do that for you, and would recall his fault that he had committed and would, therefore, fight shy of his Lord on that account (and would say): You better go to Moses (peace be upon him) with whom Allah conversed and con- ferred Torah upon him. He (the Holy Prophet) said: So they would come to Moses (peace be upon him) He would say: I am not in a position to do that for you, and would recall his fault that he had committed and would fight shy of his Lord on account of that (and would say): You better go to Jesus, the Spirit of Allah and His word He would say: I am not in a position to do that for you; you better go to Muhammad (may peace be upon him), a servant whose former and later sins have been forgiven. He (the narrator) said: The Messenger or Allah (may peace be upon him) observed: So they would come to me and I would ask the permission of my Lord and it would be granted to me,….”
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planten said:
There are some similarities. I won’t go into the end times now about Qiyamat etc. Some branches of the Jews did not believe in the accounatbility of the next world. But Jesus spoke about it and confirmed it. So does the Quran. That is one similarity.
I cant speak for the Jews, but i can speak for the Christians.
  1. Both religions emanate from the same earlier source, i.e. belong to the Abraham’s seed.
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Muslims only believe in parts of the bible, they think the bible on the whole is corrupted.
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planten said:
There are some similarities.
  1. The christians believe that Jesus suffered for the sake of his people. The Muslims also believe that he suffered very much on the cross.
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This is only partly true when we take into consideration the fact that most of the Muslims (mainstream Islam) deny Jesus’ death and suffering on the cross. According to the majority of Muslims, Jesus was not crucified.
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  1. The christians believe that Jesus was alive after the laying in the tomb. The Muslims also believe that Jesus was walking about after coming out of the tomb.
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This so-called similarity is completely untrue since majority of Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified, but was assumed to Allah’s presence in heaven when His adversaries attempted to arrest and harm Him.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that Jesus breathed His last on the cross and was therefore not alive when laid in the tomb. Jesus appeared to His disciples only after His resurrection, which means that He rose from the dead. There was no deceit in Jesus’ actions, for His resurrection was as real as His death 🙂
 
Wow!
This has been a good discussion through and a good question raised by Nancy!
I am glad to read this details.
May all understand the glory of the Almighty- Supreme God, I pray…:gopray2:
 
*Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ,” which he praised as admirable but quite simply “wrong”.
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“Gibson’s film is a very good film. I mean that it is a well-crafted movie but the story is wrong – it was not like that*,” he said, referring to two key differences: Islam sees Jesus as a prophet, not the son of God, and does not believe he was crucified.
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Talebzadeh said he even went to Gibson’s mansion in Malibu, California, to show him his film. “But it was Sunday and the security at the gate received the film and the brochure and promised to deliver it,” though the Iranian never heard back.
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Even in Iran, “Jesus, The Spirit of God” had a low-key reception, playing to moderate audiences in five Tehran cinemas during the holy month of Ramadan, in October.
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The film, funded by state broadcasting, faded off the billboards but is far from dead, about to be recycled in a major 20 episode spin-off to be broadcast over state-run national television this year.
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Talebzadeh insists it aims to bridge differences between Christianity and Islam, despite the stark divergence from Christian doctrine about Christ’s final hours on earth.
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“It is fascinating for Christians to know that Islam gives such devotion to and has so much knowledge about Jesus,” Talebzadeh told AFP.
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That really made me laugh. Especially about the director visiting Mel Gibson. 😃
 
The ony commonality between Christianity and Islam is that they both believe in One God. After that, the revelations of who God is differ’s tremendously.
 
Both stress a need for helping those less fortunate.

Both accept the concept of a God that is active in the lives of men.

Both hold that how we live our lives on earth leads to the final destination of our souls after we die.
 
Gabriel_of_12 said:
The ony commonality between Christianity and Islam is that they both believe in One God. After that, the revelations of who God is differs tremendously.
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This is a little bit short of the typical Catholic answer. Certainly the belief in God is one aspect. But the Vatican and tradition usually point to morals, the life of prayer, and a shared understanding of God’s history with humanity beginning with Adam, running through Abraham, the prophets and ultimately the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

salaam.
 
Badaliyyah said:
This is a little bit short of the typical Catholic answer. Certainly the belief in God is one aspect. But the Vatican and tradition usually point to morals, the life of prayer, and a shared understanding of God’s history with humanity beginning with Adam, running through Abraham, the prophets and ultimately the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

salaam.
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IF what you state is common, then you just qualified every pagan belief in history to have commonality to Islam and Christianity. I believe a correct understanding of God first, begins the commonality. If commonality can be found here, all other things can be understood and be revealed.
 
Gabriel_of_12 said:
IF what you state is common, then you just qualified every pagan belief in history to have commonality to Islam and Christianity. I believe a correct understanding of God first, begins the commonality. If commonality can be found here, all other things can be understood and be revealed.
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really? I wasn’t aware of much interest in God’s history with humanity as experienced in the line running from Adam through Abraham, the Prophets, Mary and Jesus in paganism. I don’t disagree about the fundamental role that affirmation of the one God plays…but again, that can indeed be found in quite a few pagans (one might think of Plotinus, in whom Augustine says he found all of Christianity except the Cross).

Of course insofar as everyone desires Allah, they have some commonality with Christianity (and Islam), but I didn’t really take that to be the question.

salaam.
 
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