Christanity and Islam sound very similar to an outsider. Dont you agree?
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Many Christians begin to learn about the Trinity through knowledge of Baptism. This is also a starting point for others in comprehending why the doctrine matters to so many Christians, even though the doctrine itself teaches that the being of God is beyond complete comprehension. The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are structured around profession of the Trinity, and are solemnly professed by converts to Christianity when they receive baptism, and in the Church's liturgy, particularly when celebrating the Eucharist. One or both of these creeds are often used as brief summations of Christian faith by mainstream denominations.\n\nOne God\nGod is one, and the Godhead a single being: The Hebrew Scriptures lift this one article of faith above others, and surround it with stern warnings against departure from this central issue of faith, and of faithfulness to the covenant God had made with them. "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4) (the Shema), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Deuteronomy 5:7) and, "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." (Isaiah 44:6). Any formulation of an article of faith which does not insist that God is solitary, that divides worship between God and any other, or that imagines God coming into existence rather than being God eternally, is not capable of directing people toward the knowledge of God, according to the trinitarian understanding of the Old Testament. The same insistence is found in the New Testament: "...there is none other God but one" (1 Corinthians 8:4). The "other gods" warned against are therefore not gods at all, but substitutes for God, and so are, according to St. Paul, simply mythological or are demons.\n\nSo, in the trinitarian view, the common conception which thinks of the Father and Christ as two separate beings, is incorrect. The central, and crucial affirmation of Christian faith is that there is one savior, God, and one salvation, manifest in Jesus Christ, to which there is access only because of the Holy Spirit. The God of the Old is still the same as the God of the New. In Christianity, it is understood that statements about a solitary god are intended to distinguish the Hebraic understanding from the polytheistic view, which see divine power as shared by several separate beings, beings which can, and do, disagree and have conflicts with each other. The concept of Many comprising One is quite visible in the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verses 20 through 23.\n\nGod exists in three persons\n\nThe "Shield of the Trinity" or "Scutum Fidei" diagram of traditional Western Christian symbolism.This one God however exists in three persons, or in the Greek hypostases. God has but a single divine nature. Chalcedonians — Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants — hold that, in addition, the Second Person of the Trinity — God the Son, Jesus — assumed human nature, so that he has two natures (and hence two wills), and is really and fully both true God and true human. \n\nIn the Trinity, the Three are said to be co-equal and co-eternal, one in essence, nature, power, action, and will. However, as laid out in the Athanasian Creed, only the Father is unbegotten and non-proceeding. The Son is begotten from (or "generated by") the Father. The Spirit proceeds from the Father (or from the Father and through the Son ).\nIt has been stated that because God exists in three persons, God has always loved, and there has always existed perfectly harmonious communion between the three persons of the Trinity. One consequence of this teaching is that God could not have created Man in order to have someone to talk to or to love: God "already" enjoyed personal communion; being perfect, He did not create Man because of any lack or inadequacy He had.\nAnother consequence, acc
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They are not Muslims. Its the same if a terroist from a Christian denomination would slaughter innocent people all in the name of God and Jesus etc.
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Of course if I though Islam was the correct (or most correct) religion I would join it.  As it is, though, I cannot be separated from Christ.\nI very much want to learn more about Islam, and I am gradually and steadily learning about it.  \nI believe it is good to know how others think and what they believe.
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To think that they are all similar is to distort and edit their message.  They are all very different, aside from the fact that they all claim to believe in the same God:  The one and only true God.\n\nAside from this they are quite different, although they are closely linked historically.\n\nJudaism is by far the oldest:  We don't know how long ago that some early Israelites began to believe in one unearthly god named "Yahweh" instead of all of the many earthly gods that other cultures worshiped.\n\nBut we know they started writing down what would become the "Old Testament" around 800 BCE.\n\nThen, about 800 years later in 30 CE, a firebrand reformist Jew arrived on the world stage.  He cast demons out of people and healed the sick and taught that God was about to bring His kingdom to earth soon.  This man was named Yeshua bar Yehosef (Jesus to you and me).  He had a profound effect on everyone who knew him and when he came to Jerusalem to preach at the Temple, he alarmed the Jewish and Roman authorities so much that they feared revolt (High Priest Caiaphas feared a religious "revolt", while Procurator Pontius Pilate feared a civil disobedience uprising at best, and a military uprising at worst).  Jesus was executed but his movement changed and grew into what we now call Christianity.\n\nThen, almost 600 years later, in 610 CE, an Arab man named Mohammed* claimed that the Archangel Michael visited him in a city called Mecca and had begun to recite to him the final message to mankind from God.\n\nThe Archangel Michael is an important figure in both Judaism and Christianity.  And from the beginning, Mohammed's teachings claimed to be a continuation and a completion of the work "Yahweh" had begun with the prophets of Judaism and with Jesus of Nazareth.\n\nMuslims think that Jesus is just a man, not God Himself in human form.  They think that Jesus was very important and was "anointed" by God to perform God's work -- but they don't think Jesus died for our sins.  In fact, Mohammed's ideas about what Jesus taught and what the life of Jesus meant are very different from orthodox Christianity.\n\nWhen Muslims speak of "Allah", they mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  They mean the same God who parted the Red Sea for Moses and the same God that Jesus called "Father".\n\nHowever, to think that Islam unifies all three of these religions, you must first discard just about everything Jesus says in the Gospels.\n\nHere are just a few examples of the conflicts between Jesus' teachings and the teachings of Islam:\n\n-- Jesus rejected laws about food, saying that what came OUT of your mouth makes you "unclean", not what you put IN your mouth.  Islam still maintains the old food taboos against pork, shellfish, and other foods very carefully.\n\n-- One of Jesus' first miracles was to turn water into wine.  The gospels show Jesus drinking wine all the time (though he never drank to get drunk).  And, BTW, this was not grape juice:  without refrigeration grape juice quickly becomes a fly-infested sticky mess.  Islam condemns all consumption of alcohol.\n\n-- More importantly, Jesus tells us not to fight with the evil man, but rather to fight him with kindness.  Jesus NEVER preached war but only love and understanding and compassion.  Jesus spoke angrily against those who did unjust and wicked things, but he never advocated killing them.  Islam, however, claims that Allah wants people to be killed for all kinds of reasons.  It is true that you can be a Christian and still support war and the death penalty -- just don't say that Jesus wants it.  War and retribution may be necessary in this world, but they are all part of our original sinful condition.\n\nSHORT ANSWER:  These religions are linked by history but all have very different and conflicting beliefs not only about morality and about God, but even about what real historical
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he is prophet (not profit) mohammed. he is the same as Jesus for the christian
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I was raised a Catholic but personally I think Islam is a great faith, too bad some followers of  Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab have given your religion a black eye, but don't true Muslims view terrorists as Fasiq or Munafiq, I've read that the virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Qur'ān than in the Bible, and having a Pope and Cardinals that live extravagantly in mansions after taking a vow of poverty certainly is hypocritical, let alone all the corrupt priests, and Evangelists that have been caught doing despicable things. We should all command what is good, forbid what is evil, and strive to seek God's approval.
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Generally American christians and even jews are ok .My housemates are anyway , we celebrate everything. I'm a muslim. It's just that people like ASSBANDIT are giving the country and the religion a bad name. And ASSBANDIT is not even and American.he just love giving christianity a bad name
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some beautiful inspiring muslims...\n\n\nROB WICKS\n\n[In the following article, "NOI" refers to the Nation of Islam, which in spite of its name, is a group far removed from Islam. -Ed.] \n\nI grew up Baptist, in a family of ministers, in rural Mississippi. I went to college at Morehouse College in Atlanta, so I was exposed to the NOI, but I had the good fortune to become friends with an orthodox Muslim who explained to me the difference between NOI and Islam, and the lack of knowledge most NOI have of true Islam. Later, after I left school and began working, I got an internet account, and started to study some of the religions of the world. I had never really been a particularly religious person, due to my somewhat scientific nature. I always insist on proof. I started to delve deeper into Christianity, and studied it intently on the Web. I was somewhat disdained however by some inconsistencies in the Bible. I principally was troubled by the Trinity, though. I just did not see it. The one passage I saw as being most supportive (1 John 5:7) was partially forged. When I read Mathew 19:16-17, and Jesus (pbuh) says "Why callest thou me good?, it was clear to me that he was saying that he was not good, and only God was. But most of the Christians seemed to think Jesus was being tongue-in-cheek at this point. I found that I would have to be dishonest to accept this. \n\nThen fortune? smiled upon me. I hit a deer in my car. It was out of service for almost a month. During that time, I was unemployed, but had saved money, so I could live (I also have two roommates). I still had my internet account, and I decided to study more. After I had studied the Biblical contradictions, in addition to the inherent idolatry and unscriptural nature of the Trinity, along with other things, I rejected Christianity as a religion. Even Jesus did not seem to teach it, he taught belief in God. I went a time without any religion, thinking maybe it was all a sham. I have a friend who is in the 5% NOI, and I saw how much he hated religion, and I decided that I did not want to be like that. I believe that God kept my mind open and my heart from hardening against Him, and I studied Islam. Everything just seemed to fit: a reasoned faith which was very prayerful to keep us on the straight path, yet did not disdain acquisition of knowledge (the preachers back home loved to rail against education, as if ignorance is preferred by God). Islam seemed to be made for me. A good Muslim was the exact sort of person I aspired to be. After another month of study and prayer, I decided that if Muhammad (pbuh) was not a prophet, then there had never been prophets in the first place. The moment of decision came one night when I was reading the Qur'an and I read 21:30, and I read of God expanding his creation. Now, I almost became an astronomer at one point, and I still am interested, and these verses hit me like a sledgehammer. I became fearful of God, and wanted to worship him better.\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------\nCeline \n\nSalam Alekhum. \n\nI became Muslim almost three years ago, right after Ramadan in between the two Eids. \n\nMy spiritual search lasted over thirty years. I was born a Catholic and found many things I did not agree with: I believe in Jesus, but did not believe that he was the son of God, nor that he was God. I concluded on my own that he was a rabbi, since he was a learned Jew and a teacher. Because of this I went and studied under rabbis and learnt the Tanakh, the Torah and some of the laws of Judaism. I learnt the Kosher laws and the proper way of cooking, and the rules of being a woman. It became natural that men and women prayed separated as the women were together. Though Judaism was not the answer for me, I gained an understanding of its religious and spiritual ways. \n\nI then looked into women spirituality but found that it was lacking something, it was not always monotheistic in practice becau
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Yes I like this... it just sounds more...TRUE somehow. Nobody who currently professes to be a Christian is truly Christ like...we all have our own prejudices, phobias, hatreds.... SINS. We can only aspire to be like Him and therefore Christianism fits the circumstance better. You should call the Pope or something.
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I dont think Islam respects anyone who doesnt see like they do, which may be true for other religions too, but "death to the infidels" is a uniquely Muslim idea that may bear upon the poor image.
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Oh my god what is that guy going on about Allah and all that jazz?!\n\nGod the amount of religious fanatics we have on this site is scary...\n\nIt is a beautiful coincedence!
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It's apparent that you have never opened a Bible, so please stop showing your ignorance.  The Bible is all about loving thy neighbor as thyself.  Love the sinner, hate the sin.  Love thy enemy.  Turn the other cheek.  Everyone is capable of finding faults in others when they do not have any knowledge.  It would be perfectly normal for people to judge Islam on the actions of terrorists who say "Death to the infidel."  That doesn't sound like Muslims tolerate their enemies, does it?
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I won't infect you with a derogatory statement when you are in fact asking a viable question. So I will answer it with the utmost honesty and research that I can provide. Unlike those who resort to rudeness such as those above, showing their imaturity and ignorance and unwillingness to learn.\n\n\nMuslims and Christians are the closest brothers in the Christian faith. Muslims have great respect for Christians  and love for them as brothers which share a faith which is comparable. Israel hates these Muslims as much as they hate Christians , that is why the Israel propaganda machine is in full swing to make Christians and Muslims hate one another for if they are able to work together as brothers in the same faith they are able to stop the evils of this earth together and the wars that are a daily occurance  in Israel, from Isreal and their hatred for  Muslims. Therefore their propaganda is to make Christians hate their Muslim brothers whose faith is  more closely binding and alike than that of Judaism and Christianity. Fact is, Muslims are blood brothers in Christ with Christians.\n\nYou may have heard this because Muslim history has proved that Jesus  was actually born under a  palm tree wereas Judeo influence into our Christian Bible says it was in a manger. However , Muslim history is older than Judeo history so it must be held at a higher value than the myths of Judeo history which have always been proven to been mythical and with much error.\nRead this excerpt from muslim history.\n\n"I first came across the idea of Christ as an object of Muslim devotion when I read that inscription quoting Jesus, son of Mary, on Whom be Peace, on the gateway at Fatehpur Sikri. Last month I came across a Mughal miniature, now on display in the British Library, which was probably painted within that city soon after the gateway had been built. It is a nativity scene, with Mary and the Christ child and wise men coming to offer gifts. But the wise men are Mughal courtiers, Mary is attended by a Mughal serving girls, and the Christ child and his mother are sitting under a palm tree. As this miniature shows, there are certainly major differences between the two faiths- not least the central fact, in mainstream Christianity, of Jesus' divinity. But Christmas the ultimate celebration of Christ,s humanity- is a feast which Muslims and Christians can share together without reservation. At this moment when the Christian West and Islamic East seem to be heading for another major confrontation,( Thanks to Israli propaganda ) there has never been a greater need for both sides to realise what they have in common and, as in this miniature, to gather around the Christ child, to pray for peace."\n\nREAD THE REST HERE:\nhttp://www.alhewar.com/a_christmas_palm_tree.htm\n\nThe remarks above are protected speech pursuant to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court as follows: "Brandenburg v. Ohio" 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969) as they are uttered in a context which does not lend itself to imminent lawlessness, AND; do not constitute a "true threat" as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case "Virginia v. Black" 538 U.S. 343, 359 (2003) as well as U.S. Supreme Court decision of "Watts v. United States" 394 U.S. 705 (1969) Id. at 708 which specifically applies to this type "political hyperbole."
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The only two religions that teach close to the same God is Judaism and Christianity. All others are vastly different and contradictory. Since they oppose each other-they all can not be the correct one. So, only one can be right. The trick is-which one? We must compare and choose-and hope we are right. Fortunately for people in the western countries, we have the "freedom" and the "resources" to check them "all" out. I personally know a man with 2 doctoral degrees in religion, a D.Min, and a Ph.D. He is an Arab. He is convinced that Christianity is the correct one. I too believe that Christianity is the correct one. I have 2 degrees also in religion, but not a doctorate. I understand that most people in the world do not have a chance to compare religions, or the resources either. Some would have to forfeit their life to change-this is sad. Christian missionaries give their lives to help other people learn about Jesus. They do not do this to raise an army or to overthrow a government, they do it to save lives only. This one fact alone should make people all over the world at least want to examine a religion that cared so much for them that they would die to bring it to them. This is one reason I think my religion is right.
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Osama IS NOT the leader of Islam he is a radical terrorist who uses and manipulates the teaching of the Quran to promote his own political agenda. Islam preaches peace and submission. I was raised Cristian and and Converted. I was very ignorant before I picked up a Quran myself and read it. Please do not fall into the trap of believing only what you hear and see from the Media. I have many reason to back everything up and if you want a personal discussion about this I would love to IM.
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i believe what i believe that has nothing to do with you. call your religion another name. cuz the name islam has been used already. too late. sorry for that. you should find another name...what about shaytin al-ins
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Mosque architecture was actually adapted from churches, so it is not too strange that they look alike.  I think there are various types of churches there.  The ones you are talking about may be catholic.