Jews, Christians and Muslims: relatives in Religion?

Yeshwa Younis said:

"Jews, Christians and Muslims believe that the creation of humans began with Adam, who was the first human to receive guidance directly from the Creator."
Its mean they are cousins with each other.

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While I do agree that the Religions are closely related that's not really the defining point, rather I would point to the whole shared theological background from Adam through to the Later Prophets, specifically Abraham as this is where Islam claims to split somewhat from both.

Judaism denies Jesus and Muhammad.
Christianity claims Jesus as Christ and God and denies Muhammad.
Islam denies Jesus' divinity and claims Muhammad as the greatest and last Prophet.

Yeshwa Younis said:

If they denies Jesus Christ why thy allow to Christian visit historical place of Jesus.

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Because Israel is a secular country that likes income from tourism?

In a broad generic sense.

A kangaroo and a polar bear are both mammals, but one has a pouch and the other doesn't.

-CryptoLutheran

It's lovers and haters on all sides. God's serious about the rules because he knows were weak, but a man or a woman's soul is what really matters.

I don't believe that any religion is a "relative" to Christianity. Either Jesus is God-in-the-flesh, or He is not. Jews and Muslims both reject that, which makes both of them antithetical to the Christian faith. They two of them may be related to each other, but they are not related to Christianity.

Judaism, Islam and Christianity are collectively known as "Abrahamic religions" because they trace their history to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.

Yeshwa Younis said:

"Jews, Christians and Muslims believe that the creation of humans began with Adam, who was the first human to receive guidance directly from the Creator."
Its mean they are cousins with each other.

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All 3 Abrahamic faiths share the early writings (correct me if I'm wrong but the first 5 books of the old testament = the pentateuch = the torah??)
and of course we believe in the same God.

I find it VERY interesting however to simply observe how the differences of these 3 religions manifest themselves today in the real world - how do we all behave and treat one another?
Christians that focus greatly on the example of Jesus manifest his teachings by 'turning the other cheek' in response to aggression and truly make the effort to 'live' loving ...
But if you look at Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Gaza/Palestine and how intolerant Muslims are to Christians or Jews and how simply militant their behaviours, you must naturally question whom do they follow? whom do they model themselves after?
When you just compare Jesus who knew he would die and faced his death without violence, to that of Mohammed who was a warrior you may begin to understand how these faiths diverge ...

Having said that, to the OP, do you not believe that ALL human beings are brothers and sisters -- not just the 3 abrahamic faiths, but Budhists, Atheists, Agnostic, how about Coptic Christians? we are ALL brothers and sisters - LOVE THEY NEIGHBOR!!

cam44 said:

All 3 Abrahamic faiths share the early writings (correct me if I'm wrong but the first 5 books of the old testament = the pentateuch = the torah??)
and of course we believe in the same God.

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These three religions do NOT believe in the same God although they share the Old Testament and claim Abraham. They take their respective ideas of God from much the same (but not identical) sources, but they do not reach the same conclusion.

hmmm ... Albion -- so we DO believe in the same God, we just interpret his message differently?

cam44 said:

hmmm ... Albion -- so we DO believe in the same God, we just interpret his message differently?

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No. We share some ideas about God. However, we do not believe in the same God by any means.

For one thing, Christians believe God became Man; and for another, that God is triune. All of that is firmly rejected by Muslims whose idea of God is a blend of pre-Mohammed paganism and some information that he picked up about both the Jewish and Christian teachings concerning God.

Yeshwa Younis said:

If they denies Jesus Christ why thy allow to Christian visit historical place of Jesus.

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They don't deny he existed - they just don't recognize him as a prophet or the Son of God - is this correct?
When you think about it -- how could they say he is a prophet - then they would have to say - 'Yes he was a prophet, but we killed him (or had others kill him for us) ...' -- I (admittedly) am not sure but this would seem to be a huge stumbling block in terms of Jews recognizing Christ ...

They (Jews/Israel) can/do allow Christians into their country - this doesn't mean that they argree at all with Christianity/Christian beliefs; I don't think one has anything to do with the other ... I have never been to Israel but do they even ask what your religion is before you enter?

cam44 said:

I have never been to Israel but do they even ask what your religion is before you enter?

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If you're a tourist, no. But if you want to relocate to Israel, yes indeed. There are groups that consider themselves to be Jewish but are not recognized by the State of Israel as real Jews.

rejecting a technicality -- isn't the same as like, driving ice picks into peoples hands and leaving them to die! But things would be boring if we didn't all have our differences of opinion.

Evolution has never been disproven to be just some abstraction of what the bible talks about concerning creation. We probably are related, despite differences in beliefs!

knee-v said:

I don't believe that any religion is a "relative" to Christianity. Either Jesus is God-in-the-flesh, or He is not. Jews and Muslims both reject that, which makes both of them antithetical to the Christian faith. They two of them may be related to each other, but they are not related to Christianity.

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Jeremwhy said:

rejecting a technicality -- isn't the same as like, driving ice picks into peoples hands and leaving them to die! But things would be boring if we didn't all have our differences of opinion.

Evolution has never been disproven to be just some abstraction of what the bible talks about concerning creation. We probably are related, despite differences in beliefs!

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