Islam_Vs_Christianity

Islam Vs Christianity Christianity and Islam -- Are They Really That Different' There are numerous religions in this world. Of the many religions, two of the most prominent are Islam and Christianity. It is averaged that there are 750 million people practicing Islam and another 1 billion practicing Christianity. The roots of Islam are actually in Christianity. History books indicate that one night; God, by way of the angel Gabriel, appeared to Muhammad (In Christianity, this is the same Angel that brings the news of Jesus' birth.1). The message Muhammad received was that there was but one God, not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world and He would one day judge. In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As illustrated, both of these religions share almost the same framework, but they also differ in many ways. The term Islam roughly means “surrender.”2 Within Islam, the believer (called Muslim) must surrender to the will of Allah, which is the Arabic word for God. The basic creed of Islam is brief but important: “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his Messenger.”3 Islam teaches pg, islam, god, christianity, religions, new, world, one, christian, beliefs, muhammad, york, prophets, primitive, parrinder, modern, islamic, inc, ibid, grosset, geoffrey, faiths, dunlap, day, 1971, westminster, press, mary, knox, kentucky, keen, john, introducing, holy, believe, allah