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¶ … Jewish, Christian Islamic belief? How religions compare ? Talk discussion: Judaism: Creation Patriarchs Prophets Kings the Bible Literature Early
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are three of the most renowned religions in the world and this is reflected by the number of followers supporting each religious ideology and by their background. In spite of the fact that there have been many conflicts between individuals following these three religions, they have a lot of similarities. The concepts that they put across made it possible for numerous individuals to express interest in wanting to live in accordance with their laws and gradually made them three of the most important religions in the world. While one might find it difficult to compare these religions due to their complex background, it is actually not very difficult to find correlations and differences between the three.
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are all monotheistic religions and they all go back to Abraham, considering that Abrahamic tradition has had a strong influence on each of them. Judaism is the first chronological religion that has emerged consequent to Abraham and it has, to a certain degree, had an influence on the other two religions. Jews regard Abraham as the first Hebrew individual and consider the Tanakh to be the first document relating to their...
The fact that they consider themselves to be the direct descendants of the patriarch Abraham makes it possible for them to regard other Abrahamic religions to be less complex. Christianity was founded by Jesus and Islam was founded by Mohammed several centuries consequent to the founding of Judaism.
There were a series of prophets in Judaism and most of them focused on putting across exemplary behavior in an attempt to have people employ moral attitudes regarding life. They also struggled to emphasize the importance of spiritual values with the purpose of criticizing individuals who concentrated on material values.
Even though many of the concepts that it contained were inspired from Judaism, Christianity grew into a religion that differed greatly from its source of inspiration. Even with this, Jesus acted similar to a Jewish prophet in influencing people to adopt moral approaches as they dealt with other individuals. Christianity practically revived most of the Western World through the ideas that it introduced. This religion came to have a strong influence on a set of domains during the first few centuries A.D. In spite of the fact that early Christians did not actually have a great influence on art and architecture, conditions gradually changed as they became more influent and as they started to express interest…
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According to Bass, "Hinduism is the only major religion lacking an adequate explanation as to its origin," as no definitive Hindu text exist that that date before 1000 B.C. Indeed, because Hinduism is one of the religions that views time as cyclical rather than linear, what information is available about Hinduism does not give a very accurate picture of its history (Bass 5). What can be gleaned from this
Before the Torah is replaced near the end of the service, it is carried throughout the assembled congregation. Worshippers may reach out and touch the Torah with prayer books (hands are not supposed to be used), then kiss the object that touched the Torah, a gesture of affection, respect, and loyalty to God. This ritual is (arguably) symbolically equivalent to Catholic Communion, where believers symbolically ingest the blood and
Jewish values neither ban the rights of abortion, nor do they allow undiscerning abortion capabilities (Yadgar, 2006). Women who are the solitary carriers of their babies have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies; however in Judaism, abortion is only allowed if there is some deathly threat to mother. After testifying, men are obliged to have education as similar to the God who strived for improvement
Religion in the Modern World Religion Modern World Religion is something that is as old as man. It means "almost everything because religions deal with the whole of human life -- and death" (Bowker 2006). Since the beginning of mankind, individuals have searched themselves and others, contemplated the universe and all its elements, and religions are what were formed through these personal and public explorations. But what exactly are religions? What does
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" (Koran, 2:36) A punishment dealt herein concerns man's occupation of earth as a home, with God endowing it only a finite capacity to host mortal life. Again, the contrast between the implications to man's punishment for Original Sin in the two texts can be traced to the contrast in man's assumed composition. In the Hebrew Bible, God punished Eve and her offspring to a perpetuity of painful childbearing "and unto