Comparing and Contrasting Religions

Introduction

Christianity is the largest religion of the world, followed by Islam and Judaism. Judaism and Christianity hold many commonalities with Islam; the three being somewhat similar religions in terms of the foundational beliefs. Their practices and faith are similar to each other, with some differences that we will be discussed in this paper. Judaism, Islam and Christianity are collectively known as "Abrahamic religions" because they trace their history to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible. Throughout history it was observed that Islam came in close contact with its Judaism and Christianity counterparts, while the Prophet Muhammad interlinked and interacted with people of all three religions (Wilson, pp. 143).

Discussion

Historical origin and mutual influence of comparative religion, especially religious traditions - group comes. Abrahamic religion originated in the Middle East, Indian religions originated in India and the Far Eastern origin of religion in East Asia. Another group of regional impact was African Diaspora religions that originated in Central and West Africa. Abrahamic religion is the largest group, Christianity, Islam, Judaism; and do not shed are mainly involved. Abraham is the patriarch and the origin of the name of monotheism belief. Today, nearly 3.4 billion people are followers of the Abrahamic religions and Southeast Asia in addition to the surrounding areas is widely spread throughout the world. Many other Abrahamic organizations are receiving votes. East Asian religions, including many East Asian religions, such as the Tao (in Chinese) or DOE (in Japanese or Korean), namely Taoism and Confucianism, two religions, non - religious scholars have claimed. In terms of basic statistics and beliefs, it is observed that the three religious schools of thought hold the following differences:

Judaism

The main areas of Judaism included Israel and the Jewish Diaspora around the world (mostly North America, South America, Europe and Asia). Judaism does not see things quite the same way. For Judaism, Man is a partner of the divine plan and, as such, it recognizes the authority of the Act, it has its say on the application he makes, especially if opposes concern for the other. God gives the rule is an absolute, but a man lives in a dual world and reign or the relative, it must find a way to understand it so it is applicable without offending his conscience morality (Fine, pp. 224). Hence the "Jewish passion" for the interpretation and therefore the intellectual debate, passion, which sometimes may seem foolish at first, because on things seemed unimportant, but in truth has consequences. For in fact the issue is often beyond the simple framework of the implementation of the Act and underpins major philosophical differences. The main difference is that Judaism does not recognize Jesus and Muhammad as prophets. He sees them as impostors; they are still awaiting their Messiah (Fine, pp. 224).

Christianity

Christianity held a lead in the Western world (Europe, America, and Oceania), sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines and South Korean minority worldwide. Status of the devil in Christian mythology God is no less a ...