The Three Religions

**Csargo** · 03-10-2006, 04:20

I know there's really not much of a difference between the three (at least I think) but I was wondering what the major differences between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity?
Just wanted to get some info on the topic if anyone has anything that can help me.

**Justiciar** · 03-10-2006, 16:19

They all worship the same god. It's just the prophets that they follow that make the noticable differenece. Each time a new prophet shows up they get a following and the worshippers of their predecessors deny their divinity. Jews follow the older prophets, Christians follow the older prophets plus Jesus, Muslims follow the older prophets plus Jesus plus Mohammad. There are other religions that follow other prophets. Aten.. Zoroaster.. the Gurus.. and Bahá'u'lláh.. I can't thing of any others but I'm sure if you search around you'll find more.

**Avicenna** · 03-10-2006, 16:42

Islam also, I believe, (sorry if I am wrong) rejects Jesus as a false prophet.

I think Hindus also follow the god. Their multiple deities are just the different sides of the God that Judaism, Islam and Christianity believe in.

**Kralizec** · 03-10-2006, 16:52

[QUOTE=Tiberius]Islam also, I believe, (sorry if I am wrong) rejects Jesus as a false prophet.[quote]

Not true.

I think Hindus also follow the god. Their multiple deities are just the different sides of the God that Judaism, Islam and Christianity believe in.

While I know little about Hinduism, I have heard something like that: that their deities are just representations of a single, supernatural power.
However they have no connection to the "abrahamic" religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Abraham or Ibrahim was the father of Isaac and Ishmael, fathers of the Israelites and Arabs respectively, and is sort of a father figure to all three religions. Whatever the Hindus believe in they developed their religions seperately.

**Pontifex Rex** · 03-10-2006, 18:37

Islam and judeaism are so very close in doctrine and belief that in many ways they are almost the same. These two religions are often referred to as cousins while Christianity (with its emphasis on Christ as the Messiah) is a more distant relative.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 03-11-2006, 00:07

Yes, thats true but the relationship is actually more like two cousens, one of which had a son.

Islam and Jewdaism split at Abraham while Christians are just followers of the Messiah prophesied in the Torah. There are even some modern Jews that accept Jesus as the son of god but they remain Jews because Christianity is Jewdaism stripped down for export.

**lars573** · 03-11-2006, 16:01

Originally Posted by Tiberius

I think Hindus also follow the god. Their multiple deities are just the different sides of the God that Judaism, Islam and Christianity believe in.

That's not quite true. It depends in the type of Hindism you follow. To some Shiva, Ganesa et all are gods like Zeus, Apollo, or Odin. To others they are all manifestations of Bhramin the one supreme being that is everything (even us).

**Sjakihata** · 03-12-2006, 11:11

every march hindus have Shiva-radhri (shiva day) where everyone, police, elderly, small children (8+) and even the kind smoke hash, to celebrate Shiva goddess of marihuana

**Atilius** · 03-13-2006, 03:41

Originally Posted by Sjakihata

every march hindus have Shiva-radhri (shiva day) where everyone, police, elderly, small children (8+) and even the kind smoke hash, to celebrate Shiva goddess of marihuana

There is a variety of Cannabis indica called Shiva. I'm puzzled about how this association of the (male) god Shiva and marijuana came about. The river Ganga (Ganges) is said to flow from his hair: Ganges=Ganja? But perhaps it's just because Shiva is known as the Destroyer. Must be good stuff.

**Kralizec** · 03-10-2006, 16:34

Christianity is understould by christians to be the continuation of the jewish religion after the Messiah. Whereas jews needed to attone for their sins by sacrifice, the sacrifice of Jesus served to attone for all sins for all people, provided you believed of course.
According to Islam, the older religions of Judaism & Christianity were "distorted" and the angel Gabriel revealed the true word of Allah to Mohammed by literally citing the text of the Quran.
In Islam, Jesus is not the son of God like he is in christianity, but just another prophet.

Furthermore I believe that while Judaism and Christianity hold that everybody is born as a sinner, Islam holds that everybody starts with a clean slate.
I think that muslims believe that Jesus did not actually die on the cross...much less that his supposed suffering took away the sin of everybody.
I could be wrong about these last two, though.

**orangat** · 03-11-2006, 02:10

Originally Posted by Kralizec

Christianity is understould by christians to be the continuation of the jewish religion after the Messiah. Whereas jews needed to attone for their sins by sacrifice, the sacrifice of Jesus served to attone for all sins for all people, provided you believed of course.
According to Islam, the older religions of Judaism & Christianity were "distorted" and the angel Gabriel revealed the true word of Allah to Mohammed by literally citing the text of the Quran.
In Islam, Jesus is not the son of God like he is in christianity, but just another prophet.

Furthermore I believe that while Judaism and Christianity hold that everybody is born as a sinner, Islam holds that everybody starts with a clean slate.
I think that muslims believe that Jesus did not actually die on the cross...much less that his supposed suffering took away the sin of everybody.
I could be wrong about these last two, though.

Correct and I'll add that Muslim believe Islam was the religion was the religion of Abraham so many (all?)Jewish prophets on down are considered to be Muslim prophets too. And Abraham's son Ismail is believed to be the progenitor of the Arabs. Muhammad was the last prophet who received the final revelation from God in the form of the Quran.

All 3 religions come have the same Abrahamaic roots but the beliefs of each of the 3 are held to be blasphemous by the others.

Associating Jesus with God is the ultimate blasphemy in Islam since he is only a Muslim prophet. And Jews likewise do not believe Jesus was the messiah.