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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY’S BELIEF
SYSTEM
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Frame of Reference
Being Islamic means adhering to Mohammed's teachings, and the five pillars of Islam,
Shahada (witnessing that there's no God but only Allah and Mohammed is His messenger),
prayer, giving of alms, fasting, and pilgrimage
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Your good deeds must practically outweigh your bad deeds,
and God will allow you into paradise if he is willing
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Being Christian methods salvation is subject to your
relationship to Christ Jesus who saves you not as a result of good you have done
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Christians at that point try to do acts of kindness as a reaction of appreciation and love to God
consequently
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Muslims accept the Quran as the strict definite expressions of God that were conveyed by the
heavenly messenger Gabriel through appearances to Mohammed
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They trust it just right in Arabic and the demonstration of
interpreting makes it is debased
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There
were errors in the oral record, however, Uthman picked what he accepted to be the right
interpretation which has become the Quran of today
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Christians accept the Bible as the "expression of God
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The Bible is
converted into numerous dialects and Christians don't accept this has debased anything
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Christians likewise accept that Jesus is the expression of God
face

to

face
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Christians accept that Jesus is additionally "the Truth," This is
difficult for Muslims to comprehend
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Both religions also
believe that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus and was chaste
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Both Christianity
and Islam believe in hell, in which the vicious will burn forever
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These two believe that by eating the apple from the forbidden tree, Eve sinned first, and
then Adam did
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They believe that this is the reason why women have pain in childbirth and why we
suffer on this earth
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We are seen by Islam as being

born free of sin
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In life, it is our choices
that make us one or the other
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Grounds for Comparison
Islam and Christianity's belief system seem to have a very little in common; however, the
two actually show strong likeness, principally in the central areas
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While both believe in the same God, He is called by two
completely different names
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Although Islam and Christianity are two different religions, their similarities in beliefs and prayers
make them comparable in many aspects
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Both prayers
are sacred to the religions and follow the same pattern
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It is also believed in both religions thatGod will judge humans when the world
has ended
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Angels are
believed to exist and are sometimes believed to be messengers of God
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They are known as enemies of humanity
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The two religions have many similarities in their moral code and practices as well
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Likewise, the two practice fasting, charity, and good works, the biggest difference
in Islam and Christianity is that Muslims don’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, which
is the basic foundation of Christianity
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Muhammad is
believed to be a prophet and a servant of God also; however, Muhammad is said to be the last

prophet sent by God to guide humanity
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II
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Main Idea Statement
Religion is an eminent aspect of many people’s lives
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There is a many different religion across the world where the belief and practices of one religion
are either similar or contrast to other religions
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Religious belief is distinct from religious practice or religious behaviours
with some believers not practicing religion and some practitioners not believing religion
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In contrast to other belief systems, religious beliefs are
usually codified
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definitions
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Point A
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Its adherents, known as Christians, believe that

Jesus is the Christ, who’s coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, called
the Old Testament in Christianity, and chronicled in the New Testament (Woodhead, 2004)
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The Christian faith centers on beliefs regarding the birth, life, death, and
resurrection of Jesus Christ
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Christians are monotheistic, they believe there’s only one God, and he created the
heavens and the earth
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And Christianity religion belief in a Holy book and
that is the Holy Bible that contains important scriptures that outline Jesus’s teachings, the lives,
and teachings of major prophets and disciples, and offer instructions for how Christians should
live
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They also
believe that Jesus was crucified on a cross to offer the forgiveness of sins and was resurrected
three days after his death before ascending to heaven
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Furthermore, Christians believe in justification by faith that through their belief in Jesus
as the Son of God, and in his death and resurrection, they can have a right relationship with
God whose forgiveness was made once and for all through the death of Jesus Christ
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Christians believe she was made pregnant miraculously by God while
she was still a virgin
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Some confuse this and think that Christians believe in three separate gods
which they don't, Christians believe that God took human form as Jesus Christ and that God is
present today through the work of the Holy Spirit and evident in the actions of believers
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While the actual nature of

this life is not known, Christians believe that many spiritual experiences in this life help to give
them some idea of what eternal life will be like
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com, 2009)
Moreover, Christians believe that salvation depends on the grace of God
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The fact of sin as the human predicament is implied in the mission of
Jesus, and it is explicitly affirmed in that connection
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Each individual's plight as a sinner is the result of a fatal choice
involving the whole person in bondage, guilt, estrangement, and death
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"It must offer redemption from bondage, forgiveness
for guilt, reconciliation for estrangement, renewal for the marred image of God
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C
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Islam Beliefs
Islam arose in the early 7th century in the city of Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula as, in
the view of Muslims, the culmination of the great monotheistic tradition of Judaism and
Christianity
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Islam is numerically the second largest religion in the
world, claiming, according to a range of estimates, somewhere between 1
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5 billion
adherents, more than one-fifth of the population of the world
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Every Muslim believes in God who is known to be the Creator and the Sustainer of all
things that exist
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Islam holds that God transcends the
possession of any physical attributes, and is not bound by any of the limitations of human

beings or anything else
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God is,
however, described by His ‘99 names’, such as the Creator, Sustainer, the Merciful, the Light,
and the Forgiver
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They are not to be
confused with the classical western images of angels in human form with wings and halos, nor
with ghosts
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Angels are there to do the bidding of their Lord, for example, the Angel
of Death, angels who record everything that happens to a person, and angels who delivered
revelations to Prophets
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It refers to a human being who is chosen by God to convey His Message
and to guide other humans
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Since Islam is a universal religion throughout the history of
humankind, Muslims believe that continuously revealed Divine Guidance to prophets until the
last Guidance was given to the Prophet Muhammad
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Thus, Muslims believe that the Torah was given to Moses, the
Psalms to David, the Gospel to Jesus and the Qur’an to Muhammad
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Muslims believe that the Qur’an is now the only
Revealed Scripture that has not been changed from its original form
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Muslims are required to have faith in the reality of the hereafter, the Day of
Judgement, Resurrection, Paradise and Hell
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Muslims believe that
God has power over everything
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However, Muslims are not fatalistic—they are given free will and
enjoined to strive to do their best in all situations since human beings do not know where their
destiny lies
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(Hussain, A
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2005)
Furthermore, Islam believes in salvation
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Islam teaches that people who die disbelieving in God do not receive
salvation
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Those who die believing in the One God and his message
(Islam) receive salvation
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2008)
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Christians believe in Trinity which other religions confuse about this and think that Christians
believe in three separate gods, which they don't because in Christians views about trinity is that,
God took human form as Jesus Christ and that God is present today through the work of the
Holy Spirit and evident in the actions of believers
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Whereas in

Islam is such plurality in God is a denial of monotheism, and thus a sin of shirk (Glassé, C
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2003)
In Muslims views Trinity consider to be a division of God's oneness like separating God
in three the reason why in Islam it considers as a grave sin, even though in Christians views
about Trinity doesn't mean the division of God's oneness
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However, the holy book
of Christianity has a new and old testament, the Old Testament dates to centuries before the
time of Christ
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Muslims believe that the Quran present today is the same (unchanged/unedited) as the one just
at the time of death of their prophet
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The beliefs of Christianity toward Jesus or called prophet Isah (PBUH) in Islam are in
contrast to Islam religion
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A
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and Allah is the only almighty God
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Both two religions also believe
that Mary (Maryam) was made pregnant miraculously by God while she was still a virgin
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Also, the two religions are in contrast to the crucifixion of Jesus or prophet Isah (pbuh),
because Islam believes Jesus was not crucified
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2016)
Moreover, both religions believe that day of judgment will happen and people will be
judged according to how they live on the Earth
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But
In Islam, they believe that salvation is achieved by submitting to the will of Allah while in
Christianity salvation is a gift accepted by faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ on the Cross
and provided through God’s grace
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Both religions are monotheistic
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Christianity religion believes
toward Jesus is not their almighty God but a son of God wherein Islam the Jesus or prophet
Isah (PBUH) is a believer and follower of Allah (S
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T) like us but the difference is prophet Isah
is one of the prophets of God (Allah)
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Moreover, the commonalities of two toward their religious beliefs may route a good
relationship to both person who is different religions but same in belief and the contrast of the
belief of every religion should be respected
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All religious
beliefs have commonalities but they also have a variance that everyone should be respect
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CONCLUSION

A
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It gives cultural system that gives people
a sense of order in existence
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Christianity is one of the Abrahamic monotheistic religions
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Mary was the
mother of Jesus Christ and they believe she was made pregnant miraculously by God while she
was still a virgin
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Its faith centers on beliefs regarding birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
Christ
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It has its own holy book (ie
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Christian people also believe that there is a life
after earthly death
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It is numerically the second largest religion in the world
with estimated range between 1
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5 billion adherents which is more than one-fifth of the
total world's population
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Prophet is a human being chosen by Allah to
convey His message and guide other humans
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Jesus Christ is considered as messenger in Islam
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Allah (s
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t
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The Islam word means "submission" or "surrender" and Muslim is the one who
surrenders (to the will of Allah)
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They also
believe in Salvation where those who die believing in the one God and His messages (Islam)
receive Salvation
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Thesis Restatement
In spite of the fact that Islam and Christianity are two distinctive religions, their
similarities in convictions, ethical code, hones and supplications make them comparable in
numerous viewpoints; comparison of thoughts of information and conviction in Christianity and
Islam , etc
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Enlightening Statement
Islam and Christianity are both Abrahamic monotheistic religions
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Most Christians believe that Christ will
return at the end of the world
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However they believe that Muhammad was the
last prophet and he recorded the word of God verbatim in the Qur’an
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References:
https://www
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com/difference/Christianity_vs_Islam
https://www
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com/What-are-the-primary-differences-between-Islam-and-Christianity

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History
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(2017,

October

13)
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https://www
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Wood head (2004) https://en
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wikipedia
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Hussain, A & El-Alami, K
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Glassé, C
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definitions
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Disomangcop, Omelhayer A
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(HUMSS 12-1)
World Religion and Belief System(WRBS)



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