Hey guys, welcome back to FTD facts, my name is Leroy Kenton and in this episode
I'm looking at ten ways in which Christianity Islam and Judaism are connected now
It's a common question that people have and before I get into everything
The varying views may not necessarily fit every branch of each religion that would take years to do a video on that
So I'm just gonna be sharing generally speaking based on the most popular beliefs of these religions
So let's get right into it. The first similarity I want to share is
Abraham Abraham is an important figure in all three religions
That's why you may often hear
Christianity Judaism and Islam referred to as Abrahamic religions according to the Bible Abraham and his son Ishmael
Are said to be the founding fathers of the Arabic people in which Islam stemmed out of Abraham and his other son
Isaac who he had with his wife. Sarah are said to be the founding fathers of the Jewish nation
Jesus who Christians claim to be God in human form was born out of the Jewish nation
So that's where that similarity comes from. The next thing is Judaism Christianity and Islam are also
Monotheistic religions all of them claim to worship the true God of creation who is all-powerful and controls the universe
They share the common belief of the oneness of God
Which is what the term?
Monotheism means now the view of God does vary in the sense that Muslims and Jews believe that God is one singular
Christians on the other hand believe God is one but in the
Compounding sense of the term what I mean by that is one made up of multiple
Entities like in the case of God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit each of them having different roles
But still pointing to one God another similarity is a belief in the supernatural
guidance of history as well as God being very active throughout human history in his
Interactions with human beings an example of this would be God inspiring new
prophets to share messages with people God giving people visions God sending angels
Etc all to reveal things to humans that impact the course of humanity
Now the next similarity ties into the previous one all these three religions stress moral
responsibility and accountability of human beings and that there will actually be a
Judgement day where everyone will either be given an eternal reward or a punishment?
They all emphasize their special covenant or promise with God for Judaism
The Covenant was made through Moses in Christianity. It was made through Jesus and in Islam bills through the Prophet Mohammed
Christianity accepts God's covenant made to the Jews but generally believe it was superseded with the coming of Jesus
that's why you'll hear Christian speak of the New Covenant or the New
Testament similarly in Islam Muslims recognized Judaism and Christianity
However, Islam is believed to supersede all those others and invite Jews and Christians to believe as they do they share common belief
Also in all if not most of the biblical prophets from Adam Abraham
Moses Jesus you name it as well as King David King Solomon and others who are not necessarily
Prophets like Mary the mother of Jesus the scriptures of the three Abrahamic religions also have similarities to the Jewish
holy book consists of the Tanakh and the Talmud
Christians adopted the Tanakh for their Bible, but it's called the Old Testament
now the Quran also tells similar stories like the
crucifixion of Jesus
however
It's told differently and Muslims believe that scriptures of the Jews and Christians were corrupted and the Quran has the most accurate
Narrative of similar stories like the crucifixion of Jesus that's found in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
Pilgrimage are another similarity
so Mecca, of course in Islam
That's the famous destination from Muslims and doing a pilgrimage to Mecca is called Hajj, which is one of the pillars of Islam
Jews journey to Jerusalem the holiest city for them and Roman Catholics journey to
Santiago de Compostela peace is also a central concept of all three religions
This is reflected historically in their use of similar greetings all meaning. Peace
Be upon you there's Shalom Aleichem in
Judaism there's pax vobiscum
in Christian and Salaam alaikum in Islam
oftentimes though
The greetings of peace are used may leave just to refer to the members of one's own faith community
You wouldn't be going around and saying that to every single person that you meet
They also share belief in common specific names for God
So Muslim uses the Arabic term Allah that refers generally to God
there's also a list of 99 other names and each of them describe a characteristic of God the one-hundredths name though is said to be
Unspeakable similarly Christians and Jews also have specific names for their God like Elohim or Yahweh
however
Those names are often
seen as too holy to speak so many versions of the Bible will replace those names with just general words like Lord or
God so there you have it
So those are ten ways in which Christianity Judaism and Islam are all similar
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