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and Christianity this was requested also without a further idea let's dive into the video Islam
and Christianity are two of the world's biggest religions their history is beginning in exactly
the same place starting in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve also Islam and Christianity along
with Judaism are known as abrahamic faiths meaning that they all believe that the biblical prophet
Abraham was one of the original fathers of having these faiths delivered to humanity however there
are several key differences between these two religions that I'll be exploring in this episode
welcome to another episode of FTD facts my name is Leroy Kenton and yeah we're exploring the world of
religion again and this time we're looking at the differences between Islam and Christianity
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when we first look at Christianity Christianity consists of people who believe in the deity Jesus
Christ Christians generally speaking believe Christ is the Son of God and walked on Earth
as the Incarnate form of God the father so in other words they believe that Jesus was God In
the Flesh Islam is made up of individuals who believe in the deity Allah which is just the
Arabic word for God they believe that Allah's teachings were recorded word for word by God's
last prophet named Muhammad currently Islam is the second largest religion in the entire world after
Christianity and based on the latest estimates the current global population of Christianity sits at
2.3 billion followers which is 31 percent of the total population of the world Islam follows behind
at 1.8 billion followers which works out to be approximately 24 of the entire global population
so as you can see these two religions of course have played a huge role in shaping what we know
to be human history because look at this this is half of the population here fall in between these
two religions now when we look at one of these two religions were formed as organized religions
Islam takes us back to 610 to 622 CE Christianity on the other hand was established as an organized
religion in 28 to 33 CE which was centuries before Islam so we hear the terms Christian Christianity
and all of that so what does Christian actually mean if someone calls himself a Christian what are
they saying well Christian simply means a believer in Christianity which is someone that follows the
teachings of Christ very simple now Islam means submission to the will of God and those who submit
to the will of God are called Muslims when it comes to the place of worship where do Christians
go to worship well of course we know of churches there's also chapels Cathedrals basilicas as well
as Christians are allowed to Worship in homes and any other living spaces Muslims worship at
mosques AKA masjids and any other place considered cleaned by Islamic standards so it's pretty pretty
open there's not necessarily a specific place that you have to go to worship both these religions are
pretty open one of the main differences between these religions is the doctrine of the Trinity
the Trinity or the godhead is one of the core beliefs of Christianity and it states that there
is one God who has three manifestations the Father the Son as well as the Holy Spirit and I kind of
like to use this example as not really the best but you got to think of it like a corporation
who has three founders and all of the three founders have different roles but under the same
Umbrella Corporation so in this case it would be like God Corporation and then we have father
son Holy Spirit which is kind of equally all God that's kind of how I try to wrap my brain
around it and hopefully that made sense for you but Muslims however believe that they are
the ones that practice true monotheism which means that they do not accept the doctrine of
the Trinity because how can three be one and the core belief of Islam is that there is no
God worthy of worship but Allah and it's a simple concept there's just Allah that's it
when it comes to the differences between the scriptures in Christianity and Islam the holy book
in Christianity of course is the Bible and it's said to be the inspired word of God this means
different things to different people but pretty much it means that Christians believe that the
books of the Bible are written by many people over a span of 1500 years and those people were Guided
by the spirit of God through divine inspiration and these writings came through various different
forms you know in the Bible there's songs there's poetries there's stories there's genealogies and
in these writings we see Personal Expressions of human beings working side by side with God now
when we look at the holy book of Islam the Quran it is said to be the word of God and
it was dictated to Muhammad and it was written down word for word without any sort of personal
expression or any other humanness if you will add it to the writings the most true reading of the
Quran has to be in its original Arabic language because translating it into other languages can
also take away from the interpretation of the Quran so that's where a lot of times we get a
little bit of confusion when it comes to the scriptures of the Quran people are like no but
in the original Arabic it means this but if you translate in English or another language there's
not necessarily a direct translation so some of the context may be lost so that's what they say
if you want to get the most out of reading the Quran learn some Arabic or at least find somebody
that knows Arabic and is very verse in the Quran to help you out so yeah we discussed quite a bit
so far but before I continue in this episode you definitely have to check out our playlist
about Islam and I have links to that in the card section of this episode as well as below in the
video description and I'll also have it at the end of this episode but in it we have videos
just dedicated to the religion of Islam where we go into more of the history as well as the impact
that Islam has on the world because obviously I can't of everything in this episode but you
definitely want to check those ones out and as a bonus we do have a playlist on religions in
general so I'll link to that one as well there's a lot of learning that you can do here in FTD facts
we've done a lot of videos about religion and culture here on FTD facts so feel free to check
those out after this episode okay so the next difference I'm looking at is the difference in
the profit so in the Quran the prophet Abraham was known as The Beloved servant of God and because
of Abraham's Devotion to God God made many of Abraham's descendants prophets now the story of
the prophet Abraham being commanded to sacrifice his own son Isaac is known in both Christianity
and Islam in Islam that son whoever who God told Abraham to sacrifice is Ishmael and it was through
his lineage that Islam was established through the Prophet Muhammad in Christianity the son that
Abraham was told to sacrifice was his son Isaac and through the line of Isaac comes many prophets
like Jacob Joseph Moses David King Solomon and of course Jesus Christ now I want to talk a little
bit more about the differences in the beliefs of Jesus Christ in both of their religions in Islam
Muslims accept that Jesus of Nazareth did in fact exist and that he was born of the Virgin Mary but
Islam also believes that Jesus was simply another Prophet equal to other prophets before him Muslims
believe that Muhammad is a final messenger and is superior to all other previous prophets that came
before him in the Christian faith they believe that Jesus is the son of God which makes him
equal to God and before he came to Earth as a man he was accepted as a second person of the
Trinity and another title that Jesus is given in Christianity before he came to live on the
earth as a man is the word of God and then the word of God came down to live on Earth in human
flesh Islam doesn't believe in the idea that Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross they
believe that God spared him from that in the Christian faith God sacrificing his son Jesus
on the cross is actually the focal point of the faith because without that the world would remain
hopeless just doomed Humanity done so that leads me to the next difference I want to highlight what
are the differences between the ideas of Salvation in both of these religions well Islam teaches that
salvation is based on working to achieve it so how it works is like this a Muslim must keep the five
pillars of Islam they have to confess a shahada which is that there is no God but Allah as well
as Muhammad is his prophet and generally speaking when Muslims pray they are to pray towards Mecca
five times a day they must also fast during the daylight hours of the month of Ramadan they're
also required to give money to the poor help out people who are in need and make a pilgrimage to
Mecca at least once in their life Islam teaches that the day of judgment will involve people's
good deeds and bad Deeds being weighed side by side to see okay did the Good Deeds outweigh
the bad Deeds Christianity has a much different concept of salvation and it teaches that a person
is saved by the gift of God which is through accepting the death of Jesus Christ through faith
in him so therefore you're no longer required to do a bunch of different good works to be accepted
by God and be saved but rather you're just saved through faith in Jesus and because you're saved
you just naturally want to now do good works because yeah who doesn't want to help out their
fellow man and just be a good person in general we're coming down to the end of this episode and
there's a couple things that I want to take a look at first of all is the clergy the different clergy
in the two religions Islam has imams and they are the ones that lead the congregational prayers and
the mosques they also have sheikhs Moana mulas and muftes in their religion in Christianity
they're priests Bishops ministers monks as well as nuns as seen as official clergy and what
are some of the holy days that these religions recognize Christianity recognizes probably the
biggest celebration in the world Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus there's also Good
Friday which celebrates the death of Jesus and depending on which denomination of Christianity
you fall into Sunday or Saturday is viewed as the day of rest or the Sabbath another holy day
for Christians is Easter which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and for Catholic
Christians they celebrate lent which is the season of 40 days but it doesn't count Sundays and this
begins on a day called Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday and Catholic Christians also
celebrate different Saint feast days Islam of course has their fair share of celebrations but
officially not as much as Christianity there is a month of Ramadan which is the month of fasting
there's Eid al-adda which is the Feast of the sacrifice and Eid al-fatir which is a festival
at the end of Ramadan now I've gotten to the final difference that I want to explore in this
episode so similar to Judaism Islam tends to have stricter guidelines or rules than Christianity
now in modern Christianity most of the Hardline rules of the Old Testament are more so related
to Judaism now and many of the rules found in the New Testament are sort of not as harsh as
the Old Testament for example most Christians freely eat whatever they choose including pork
and foods that are not blessed by religious leaders but this is something that Muslims and
Jews do Under the Halal and Kosher diet rule so a lot of the ancient Traditions related to their
dietary laws as well as living laws still remain alive today so that concludes this episode on
the differences between Islam and Christianity now this video was presented in the most General sense
possible I know that Christianity and Islam has various different schools of thought and different
denominator Nations and all of that which may have completely different views to anything I just
shared in this episode but for the most part this is a general views and general differences between
Islam and Christianity so if you have any thoughts or comments about what I shared in this episode
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