Christianity & Islam Similarities

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  1. Moi621

    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Christianity and Islam are merely Jewish heresies.
    That's why they create so much turmoil in the world.
    Nothing good can come of a heresy.
    Like building on a corrupted foundation.

    Peoples of such persuasions would be better off in this world
    returning to Judaism or the pre Christian / pre Islam religion of their people.
    Well maybe except the Scandinavians / Vikings who might go ballistic following Odin & Thor & company again.

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  2. junobet

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    What???? It seems that the Apostle Paul begs to differ:

    1. Cor. 7:12-14: "To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy."
     
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    OK,,if you want to play games and answer questions with questions,,,suicide is a sin in Islam. Would you consider 'Muslim' suicide bombers as Muslim?
     
  4. junobet

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    My Pastor would have married them as well had they asked him to. And if they had wanted the Imam to speak some Muslim words during the Church ceremony that would have been fine with him. :)
     
  5. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    Most people don't realize that there are countless variations of muslims just like there are countless variations of Christians. Neither religion is monolithic.
     
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    Technically they are not suicide bombers but active fighters who are dying in combat against their enemy. As such they are fulfilling one of their religion's directives and as a reward they will go to paradise. They are true believers. Of course we consider them to be foolish. There is no paradise or heaven or hell. They and their victims are just dead. But they are doing what their religion urges them to do in order to get to paradise. Therefore they are true muslims.
     
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    What Paul was saying was that if a person converted to Christianity but the spouse did not then the believer wasn't supposed to get a divorce. The reason was that the believer might be able to set such a good example that the unconverted spouse would likewise convert. After all, when Paul said those words the population of Christians was very small indeed. The theory being that's it's easier to convert someone if the spouse is a believer.

    However, a Christian (or muslim) is not supposed to marry a non-believer. But if a person converts then it's OK to stay married to a non-believer (if they are not too evil).
     
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    But do you consider yourself to be a Jew and, if so, why?
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Technically Christians worship (or believe in) four deities.
     
  10. Lien

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    LoL : ))) Muhammad (sav) also had jew neighbors and lived together in peace . Quran just says dont be bound them blindly . The fact that this applies to all people , not only non-muslims .
     
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    Jewish is a race .
    Judaism is a religion .
    You can be a muslim jew or atheist jew .

    Arab is a race .
    Islam is a religion .
    You can be an christian arab or judaic arab .
     
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    Jewish is an ethnicity as is Arab.
     
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    There are no similarities between Islam and Christianity. What you listed are meaningless superficialities or out right lies.
     
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    Islam forbids violence? Thats a fricking laugh. Every news paper on the planet has stories depicting Islamo violence every fricking day.

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    Its called plagerism and being a false prophet (peace be upon him). LOL
     
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    If you are Jewish by linage, that's a different matter than being Jewish in religious practice. There are many Christian Jews.
     
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    What a Christian or Muslim is supposed to do or not to do is not for you to say. Given the above mentioned verse (and as far as I’m aware of there aren’t any others that specifically mention marriages between Christians and non-Christians) my Pastor would not have the slightest qualms to marry one of his flock to a Muslim and to invite the Imam along for the ceremony. My Church has whole handbooks on counseling mixed Muslim and Christian couples to prepare them for the difficulties they may encounter during their marriage. I know you’d love it if the Abrahamic religions hated each other as much as you hate every single one of them. But face it: they don’t.
     
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    Maybe on the planet you live on- these are outright lies. On the planet I live on, they are reality for billions of Christians and Muslims.

    As for your violence comment, my fact about where Islam stands on this topic stands firm. First- judging a religion on people who happened to be born into a Muslim majority country and behave badly is doing yourself an intellectual injustice and Second- not seeing the absolute bastardization of our media today to make Islam out to be evil so that western political self-interest can prevail- is downright sealing your fate amongst the fenced in masses of Sheeple you have apparently decided to flock with.

    Use your own mind and seek knowledge from multiple sources. If you choose not to and just choose to spew hate that you hear, you are wasting your life hating when you can spend it grounded in reality. We only live once- I certainly am not choosing to spend my life hating other people and believing lies.
     
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    I don't see how you can compare the History of God's only Begotten Son on earth with a religion that was created to bring together Bedouin tribes.

    war and terror seems to come from it. WHY?????

    It took from Jewish and Christian tradition and ideology and created a new religion.

    to degenerate Jesus to the station of Prophet is insult.
     
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    We may have more in common than it may seem. We should look for each other's strength instead of weaknesses, give each other the benefit of the doubt.
    We must also realize that we are human, and as such, we are a work in progress. We do make mistakes, regardless of religion or the lack thereof.
     
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    Muslims believe that elevating Jesus, a miraculous and perfect man of God, to the level of God- is an insult to God himself.

    Jesus himself said to not worship him--- but to worship the Lord (my Lord and your Lord.)

    As for the other stuff that Islam is a religion of war and terror, you're wrong.

    Islam is a religion of justice- yes. You do not sit down and let someone kick your ass. You fight in self defense.

    Once you cross the boundaries of self-defense, you are in full-fledged sin mode.

    Taking the life of one is like taking the life of all of humanity.

    Saving the life of one is like saving all of humanity.

    That is Islam.

    To judge an entire religion on uninformed, lost and sinful human beings is beyond ridiculous. God knows Christians are responsible for lots and lots of crimes! I do not judge Christianity by the actions of it's HUMAN FOLLOWERS.
     
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    Wut???

    Christianity is basically derived from Judaism, and Islam comes from the both, plus the influences of later cultures.

    War, terror, poltical extortion and manipulation, social suppression, and death are not exclusive to Islam. The teachings, themselves, do not advocate these things, it is the politcal elemetns behind the teachings that use them in order to support political goals.

    I really don't understand why Christians side more with Jews anyway. From an ideologial standpoint, the Islamic peoples recognize Jesus while Jews summarily reject Jesus- aka the basis of your entire religion (that isn't exclusively Jewish in origin, though Jesus himself was Jewish...go figure)

    But, in modern days, I'd say Christian's are more of an insult to Christ than anyone else. A bunch of ideoloigcal free-loaders who affiliate themselves to a man whse life and teachings they reject on a daily basis. Compassion and empathy for others being one of them. An insult, indeed.
     
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    LoL : ) then write a book and be my god , I promise I will worship to you . You're free to use all facilities of today's .
     
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    Luke 13:34
    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who continue to kill the prophets and to stone those who are sent to you!
     
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    This is due to the fact that in the seventeenth century, Jewish rabbis took steps to expunge all references to Jesus. This act was motivated primarily by the Church's persecution of the Jews. Josh McDowell and Bill Wilson explain:
    "... in light of the persecutions, the Jewish communities imposed censorship on themselves to remove references to Jesus in their writings so that they might no longer be a target of attack.
     
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    Actually, the Jews distinguished between the false prophet of Mohammed, the one who would die, the one who was cited to appear along with the that singular Prophet who do the miracles like Moses, i.e.; Elijah, who never die.

    Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet, (Elijah, in 800BC), from among their brethren, like unto thee, (i.e.; Moses, a miracle worker), and will put my words in his mouth: [John 14:10; John 17:8;John 3:34]; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

    Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it (by harsh correction in holocaust: [Gen 22:13, Rev 11:7-13]) of him.

    Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet (Mohammed), which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, (Allah, of Forces: [Dan 11:38), even that prophet shall die, (unlike Elijah = Jesus, who arose from the dead: [2Ki 2:11]).
     

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