Christianity Compared with Islam
Join us in an exploration of Christianity and Islam side-by-side to discover the truth.
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A constant need for forgiveness
Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Messenger saying." By Allah! I ask for forgiveness from Allah and turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times a day."
This tradition from Sahih Bukhari tells us Muhammad asked for forgiveness more than 70 times a day. By contrast, both the Bible and the Sahihs acknowledge Jesus as uniquely sinless.
Pierced for our transgressions
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace...
This passage is one of the most explicit Old Testament prophecies about the suffering and death of Jesus, describing his sacrificial role and the atonement for sin.
One God, Three Persons
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Matthew 28:19 does not say ‘names’ in the plural, but rather ‘the name’ in the singular. So, the three persons have a single essence of identity. This is the meaning of Triunity – one God, eternally existent in three Persons who have the same, single essence of deity.
Sins weighed on Judgment Day
The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.
In Islam, it is believed that the Last Day (Judgment Day) involves a weighing of a person's sins and good deeds. If their good deeds outweigh this bad deeds, they will enter Paradise. Islam therefore puts great importance on gathering up good deeds as a means to our own 'success' at the Last Day. Good deeds are seen to 'cancel out' the bad (Bukhari 526), and punishment in the world reduces punishment after death (Bukhari 17).
the Wrong Mary
O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.
Miriam is the sister of Aaron and Moses
All three are the children of Amran (Exodus 6:20)
In Luke the Father of Mary is not Amran, but Heli (Luke 3:23)
And she lived 1400 years after Aaron and Moses
Quran: Jesus didn't die on the cross
And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.
According to most Muslims, Jesus didn't die on the cross
Was the Bible distorted?
Have ye any hope that they will be true to you when a party of them used to listen to the word of Allah, then used to change it, after they had understood it, knowingly?
The Quran claims the Jews distorted the 'word.' Some today say this refers to the written Torah, but the Arabic used here is 'kaleem [word] of Allah' as opposed to tawrat (the Arabic word for Torah, as used in other passages like Quran 3.93 and Quran 5.43). Such a claim is hardly controversial – to acknowledge that many have distorted God's words in their own distinct teaching or writings. Many groups, such as the gnostics, have been guilty of this, yet they have not succeeded in distorting the words of the Bible itself.
72 wives in Paradise for Muslim men
It was narrated from Abu Umamah that the Messenger of Allah said: “There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, all of whom will have desirable front passages and he will have a male member that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp).’”
The 'houri' represent a harem of wives in Paradise, repeatedly promised to Muslim men in the Qur'an and hadith traditions. References objectify them as sexually desirable (they are untouched, with 'full breasts' and 'big eyes') and Muslim women are warned not to annoy their husbands, being mindful of the houri.
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