ISLAM CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM

Islam Christianity and Judaism

Islam Christianity and Judaism

Introduction

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered an Abrahamic religion. All stated in the Middle East near Israel. Abrahamic religions are those religions traced by their adherents to Abraham. All Abrahamic Religions are considered monotheistic, which is the belief in a single, universal, all-encompassing God. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism believe that their sacred texts (or scriptures) are the "Word of God." In Christianity the sacred text is the Bible, For Islam it is the Quran, and for Judaism it is the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh.

There exists the expectation of an individual who will herald the end of the world, and/or bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth. Judaism awaits the coming of the Jewish Messiah. Christianity awaits the Second Coming of Christ. Islam awaits the coming of Mahdi (Sunnis in his first incarnation, Shi'as the return of Muhammad al-Mahdi). The three religions encompass Gabriel as considered an archangel to Jews and Christian and according to Islam Gabriel is the angel who revealed the Qur'an to Muhammad. (Signer 2001)

How Islam is understood in each country's culture and is it contrasted with Christianity and Judaism?

The religions also adhere to a pilgrimage which is considered a spiritual long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism involve themselves in pilgrimages.

Judaism and Islam have strict dietary laws, with lawful food being called kosher in Judaism and Halaal in Islam. Christianity developed ritual prohibitions against the consumption of meat (but not fish) on Fridays, and the Christian calendars prescribe abstinence from some foods at various times of the year; but these customs vary from place to place and changed over time. (Sears 2003)

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism consent that a human being comprises the body, which dies, and the soul, which need not do so. The soul, capable of remaining alive beyond human death, carries the essence of that person with it, and God will judge that persons life accordingly after they die. Each religion has a myth that is an internal description of its reason for being. Christianity's reason for being is to provide all human beings with the only valid path to salvation. Judaism's reason for being is to give concrete form to the covenant between God and the Jewish people. Islam reason for being is to form an "oneness" with God. (Armstrong 2002)

Islam, Christianity, and some sects of modern Judaism teach the bodily resurrection of the dead, the fulfillment of a divine plan for creation, and the immortality of the human soul.

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism celebrate religious Holidays, or Holy days. For example, Christians celebrate Christmas and Eastern, Islam Ramadan, and Judaism Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur. (Armstrong 2003)

Religious symbolism is the use of symbols, such as archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena by Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Religious symbolism by these religions, include place of worship, symbolic values of ...