Comparison Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Religion
April 2, 2008 by nizaminz
Abrahamic Faith consists of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These
religions have something in
common such as the belief of Adam is the first man created and the
ancestor of all human
beings, Abraham as a prophet, and the Torat as a revelation of God.
Nevertheless there are also
some significance differences among them.
Judaism is a tribal religion that can only confessed by a Jew tribe. This
religion could not be
spread to Non Jew. That is why the number of its follower is only a few.
Around 14 million
people in the world. Meanwhile the Christianity and Islam are spreading to
all people in the
world and confessed by billions of people.
About God
Judaism and Islam regard there is only one God. The Jews call the God as
Yahweh which is third
singular person means “He who is.” Muslims call God as Allah which is
singular form and
genderless from ilah (God). In the Quran, chapter Al Ikhlas stated the
unity of God:
Say: He is Allah, the One!
Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
He begetteth not nor was begotten.
And there is none comparable unto Him.
Actually in the Bible the Unity of God also stated in the Ten Commandments
of God in Exodus 20:
20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which
have brought thee
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.3 Thou shalt have no
other gods before
me. [Exodus 20:1-3]
Though in Judaism and Islam the Monotheism of God is absolute including of
God’s essence, in
Christianity there is a doctrine named Trinity that says God exists as 3
persons: Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit who are united in one substance or being. The trinity
consists of 2 words:
Three and Unity. Three is One and One is three.
This concept is contradicted to Al Quran in Chapter Al Ikhlas that says
God has no Father or
Son. The Bible says:
“The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for
evermore, knoweth that I lie
not.”[2 Corinthian 11:31]
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God
of all comfort” [2 Corinthian 1:3]
The Bible verses above clearly said that God is the Father of Lord Jesus
Christ. On the other
hand, in Islam strictly stated the Oneness of God, that God is one, God
has no Father or Son as
follows:
“And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and
Who hath no partner in
the Sovereignty,nor hath He any protecting friend through dependence. And
magnify Him with all
magnificence.” [Al Israa’:111]
Allah has no Son or Partner:
“Allah hath not chosen any son, nor is there any God along with Him; else
would each God have
assuredly championed that which he created, and some of them would
assuredly have overcome
others. Glorified be Allah above all that they allege.” [Al Mu’minuun:91]
About Jesus
The Jews not only deny Jesus as a God or a prophet, but they also tried to
kill Jesus as a pervert.
On the contrary, the Christians regard Jesus as a God:
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost,
be with you all. Amen.” [2 Corinthian 13:14]
Islam regards Jesus not as a God, but only a human being that became a
messenger of God:
“And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst thou say my mother for
two gods beside
Allah? he saith: Be glorified to which I had no right. If I used to say
it, then Thou my mind,
and I know not what is in Thy mind. Lo! Thou, only Things Hidden.” [Al
Maa’idah:116]
According to Islam, Jesus only a prophet to call people to wor****p only
one God as God order in
the Ten Commandments:
“I spake unto them only that which Thou commandedst me, and your Lord. I
was a witness of them
while I dwelt tookest me Thou wast the Watcher over them. Thou art” [Al
Maa’idah:117]
About Jesus Parent
As the Bible verses above, the Christianity regards Jesus as the Son of
God:
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” [Mark 1:1]
“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the
Lord God shall give
unto him the throne of his father David” [Luke 1:32]
Nonetheless, on Matthew 1:16-18 said that Jesus’ father is Joseph though
Jesus was born from
virgin Mary before Mary married to Joseph or having *** with him:
“1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus,
who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations;
and from David until
the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the
carrying away into
Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. 18 Now the birth of Jesus
Christ was on this
wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came
together, she was found
with child of the Holy Ghost.” [Matthew 1:16-18]
Jesus’ family tree at last follows Joseph’s instead of Mary’s.
On another verse described Jesus as the son of David, the son of Abraham.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.” [Matthew 1:1]
Jesus the Son of Man:
“For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” [Matthew 12:8]
According to Islam Jesus is the Son of Mary. Not the Son of God or Joseph:
“The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, whom had passed
away before him. And
his mother was a used to eat (earthly) food. See how we make the
revelations they are turned
away!” [Al Maa’idah:75]
The Power of God
In the Bible, Genesis 32:25-28 said that Jacob fought with God from night
until dawn. When God
could not defeated Jacob, God touch the hollow of Jacob’s thigh. God named
Jacob as Israel
because Jacob has fought God and men and Jacob prevailed:
“32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the
day.25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the
hollow of his thigh;
and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with
him.26 And he said, Let
me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except
thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.28 And he
said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God
and with men, and
hast prevailed.” [Genesis 32:24-28]
In the Gospel Matthew told how Jesus the God caught, spit, and beaten by
men:
“27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall,
and gathered unto him
the whole band of soldiers.28 And they stripped him, and put on him a
scarlet robe.29 And when
they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed
in his right hand:
and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him,
and put his own raiment
on him, and led him away to crucify him.” [Matthew 27:27-31]
In Islam God is the Most Powerful. He cannot be beaten by any man even if
they are all join
together against Him:
“If He will, He can be rid of you and bring (instead of you). That is not
a hard thing for
Allah.” [Al Faathir: 16-17]
“Thy Lord is the Absolute, the Lord of Mercy. If He will, He can remove
you and can cause what
He will to follow after you, even as He raised you from the seed of other
folk.” [Al An’aam:133]
From the verses of Holy Book above, can you tell us which the Most
Powerful God is?
The Independence of God
In Gospel Matthew said how Jesus complain and cry: “My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?”
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
lama sabachthani?
that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” [Matthew
27:46]
Do you think such statement will come out from the Most Powerful God?
In the Al Quran said that God is not a weak man that needs help:
“And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and
Who hath no partner in
the Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through dependence. And
magnify Him with all
magnificence.” [Al Israa’:111]
Whom should we wor****p for? The weak and need help God or the Most
Powerful God?
The Knowledge of God
In Gospel Mark 11:12-13 said that Jesus felt hungry and did not know if
the Fig tree is
fruitless because it is not its season.
11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he
might find any thing
thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time
of figs was not
yet.” [Mark 11:12-13]
In Islam God is All Knowing:
“And with Him are the keys of the invisible. None but He knoweth them. And
He knoweth what is
in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it. Not a grain
amid the darkness of
the earth, naught of wet or dry but it is noted in a clear record“ [Al
An’aam:59]
Is God Sleep?
In Matthew 8:24 said that Jesus was a sleep:
“And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the
****p was covered with
the waves: but he was asleep.” [Matthew 8:24]
According to Islam, God never feel weak such as sleepy or sleep:
Allah! There is no God save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber
nor sleep overtaketh
Him. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in
the earth. Who is he
that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is in
front of them and that
which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save
what He will. His
throne includeth the heavens and the earth, and He is never weary of
preserving them. He is the
Sublime, the Tremendous.” [Al Baqarah:255]
Prohibition of Statue
In the Ten Commandments stated in Exodus 20:4-5 God forbid man to make any
statue:
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth.
20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the
LORD thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me” [Exodus 20:4-5]
However the Christians now make many statues of Jesus and Mary and put
them on the churches.
In Islam making statues is forbidden. In Hadeeth Bukharee, Ummu Salamah
and Ummu Habibah said
there is a beautiful church in Habsyi (Mary Church) with some beautiful
statues. Muhammad said
“When their saint died, the Christians will build church on the grave.
Then they make many
statues in the church. They are the worst creatures before God in the day
of judgement”
The Holy Book
Though the Jews Holy Book is quoted in Bible as the Old Testament, yet
there are some
significant differences between them. The Jews Holy Book mostly written in
Hebrew and a few in
Aramaic. On the other the Old Testament in Christianity the oldest one
written in Greek with 7
additional books.
The New Testament consists of 27 books (including 4 gospels) and
originally written in Greek
between 50-150 AD (Jesus died arount 29 AD).
The gospel consists of 4 different versions originally written in Greek
namely: Mark, Matthew,
Luke, and John. The Gospels written around 70-100 AD about 40 years after
the death of Jesus.
For example, Luke wrote Gospel for a man called Theophilus
1:1 For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
declaration of those things
which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them
unto us, which from the
beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed good
to me also, having had
perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto
thee in order, most
excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those
things, wherein thou
hast been instructed.” [Luke 1:1-4]
Luke sometime only guesses such as Jesus about thirty years of age and use
the word “As was
supposed”.
“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was
supposed) the son of
Joseph, which was the son of Heli” [Luke 3:23]
Though Jesus language is Aramaic, but the New Testament original language
at least the oldest
version is all in Greek.
If in Luke 3:23 Jesus’ grand father’s name is Heli, in Matthew 1:16 Jesus’
grand father is Jacob:
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who
is called Christ”
[Matthew 1:16]
On the other hand, there is only one version of the Al Quran which is
memorized by millions of
Muslims and still in its original language: Arab, the language of
Muhammad.
“Lo! We revealed it (Al Quran) on the Night of Power” [Al Qadr:1]
Al Quran revealed by Allah to Muhammad. And Muhammad passed it on his
followers. Some of the
followers memorized Al Quran, some wrote it down on several media (leaves,
bones, leather,
etc). Abu Bakar, Muhammad’s friend, gather the Al Quran to be one. And
Usman, another
Muhammad’s friend, then compiled the Quran into one book called Mushaf
Usmani with punctuation
mark so the spelling complies with the Arabic language standard.
The Cir***cision Obligation for Men
In Judaism and Islam, Cir***cision is an obligation for men. It is
complied with Bible:
17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy
seed after thee;
Every man child among you shall be cir***cised. 11 And ye shall cir***cise
the flesh of your
foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12
And he that is eight
days old shall be cir***cised among you, every man child in your
generations, he that is born
in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy
seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money,
must needs be
cir***cised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
14 And the uncir***cised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not
cir***cised, that soul
shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant” [Genesis
17:10-14]
The uncir***cised man is regarded as unclean in Isaiah 52:1:
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the
holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncir***cised and the unclean”
[Isaiah 52:1]
However though God said in Genesis 17:13 that cir***cision is an
everlasting covenant, the
Christians no longer doing the obligation because Paul who claimed become
apostle after Jesus
died (when Jesus alive Paul is Jesus enemy) said that cir***cision is no
longer an obligation:
2:25 For cir***cision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou
be a breaker of the
law, thy cir***cision is made uncir***cision. 26 Therefore if the
uncir***cision keep the
righteousness of the law, shall not his uncir***cision be counted for
cir***cision? 27 And
shall not uncir***cision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge
thee, who by the
letter and cir***cision dost transgress the law?
2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
cir***cision, which is
outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
cir***cision is that of
the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of
men, but of God.
3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
cir***cision?” [Romans 2:25-29
– 3:1]
The Prohibition of Eating Swine
In Judaism and Islam, eating swine is strictly forbidden. It is complied
with Leviticus 11:7-8
and Deuteronomy 14:8:
11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet
he cheweth not the
cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their
carcass shall ye not
touch; they are unclean to you.” [Leviticus 11:7-8]
In the Al Quran the prohibition stated:
“He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swine flesh, and that
which hath been
immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is driven by
necessity, neither
craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful.” [Al
Baqarah:173]
Nevertheless Swine Flesh is a common food among the Christians now.
Original Sin
In the Christianity known the Original Sin Doctrine. All human race are
sinners because of Adam
committed sin by eating forbidden fruit. That is why Jesus sent down as
the saviour to redeem
the original sin.
In Exodus 20:5 God said that He will punish the children, the third and
fourth generation for
the iniquity of their fathers:
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD
thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth
generation of them that hate me;” [Exodus 20:5]
In Islam every one will only responsible for their own sin. No one can be
punished because of
other people sin:
“Say: Shall I seek another than Allah for Lord, when He is Lord of all
things? Each soul
earneth only on its own account, nor doth any laden bear another’s load.
Then unto your Lord is
your return and He will tell you that wherein ye differed.” [Al
An’aam:164]
Slander on Lot
In the Bible, Genesis 19:30-38 said that Lot had drink wine and committed
***ual intercourse
with his own daughters (*****) and had children (or grandchildren?) from
them:
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him;
for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there
is not a man in the
earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:32 Come, let us
make our father
drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our
father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn
went in, and lay with
her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the
younger, Behold, I lay
yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also;
and go thou in, and lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger
arose, and lay with
him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is
the father of the
Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the
same is the father of
the children of Ammon unto this day.” [Genesis 19:30-38]
In Islam stated that Lot is really a prophet and clean from such a sin
such as drinking liquor
or doing *****:
“And lo! Lot verily was of those sent (to warn)” [Ash Shaafaat:133]
In the Quran stated that God has raised Lot’s degree over people. If
common people will not
commit adultery with their own daughter, then a prophet such as Lot will
not such a thing:
“And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot. Each one of them did We prefer
above (Our)
creatures” [Al An’aam:86]
Slander on David
In Bible, 2 Samuel 11:2-17 said that David (who in Matthew 1:1 described
as Jesus’ father)
committed adultery with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba. After that, David ordered
Joab to send Uriah
to the front line of a battle and then deserted him so Uriah get killed by
the enemy:
11:2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his
bed, and walked upon
the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman wa****ng
herself; and the woman
was very beautiful to look upon.
3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this
Bathsheba, the
daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and
he lay with her; for
she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.”
[2 Samuel 11:2-4]
In 2 Samuel 13:11-14 also stated that the son of David, Amnon raped his
own sister, Tamar:
13:11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her,
and said unto her,
Come lie with me, my sister.
12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such
thing ought to be done
in Israel: do not thou this folly.
13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou
shalt be as one of the
fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he
will not withhold me
from thee.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than
she, forced her, and
lay with her.” [2 Samuel 13:11-14]
In the Al Quran, the Slander over David is denied:
“Those of the children of Israel who went astray were cursed by the tongue
of David, and of
Jesus, son of Mary. That was because they rebelled and used to
transgress.” [Al Maa-idah:78]
Prohibition of Adultery / *** Story
In the story of Adultery or prohibition of Adultery, the Bible described
it very detailed:
23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,2 Son of man, there
were two women, the
daughters of one mother:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they
committed whoredoms in
their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the
teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister:
and they were mine, and
they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah,
and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her
lovers, on the Assyrians
her neighbours, 6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all
of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the
chosen men of
Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled
herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they
lay with her, and
they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon
her. 9 Wherefore I
have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she
doted.
0 These discovered her ****dness: they took her sons and her daughters,
and slew her with the
sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment
upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she,
and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously,
horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed
upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,15 Girded with girdles
upon their loins,
exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to,
after the manner of
the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:16 And as soon as
she saw them with her
eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their
whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from
them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her ****dness: then my
mind was alienated
from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of
her youth, wherein
she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
*****, and whose issue is
like the issue of horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in
bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.” [Ezekiel 23:1-21]
In Song of Solomon 7:1-8 the ***ual desire described like this:
7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints
of thy thighs are
like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is
like an heap of
wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of
Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward
Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like
purple; the king is held
in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of
grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs
thereof: now also thy
breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like
apples” [Song of
Solomon 7:1-8]
In the Al Quran the prohibition of Adultery described in a gentle way so
it do not arouse
***ual desire of its readers. The readers will not have desire to have ***
with his wife or
close friend or masturbate after reading the holy book:
“And come not near unto adultery. Lo! it is an abomination and an evil
way. “ [Al Israa’:32]
Even the permission of having *** in the month of fasting described in a
very decent way:
“It is made lawful for you to go unto your wives on the night of the fast.
They are raiment for
you and ye are raiment for them.” [Al Baqarah:187]
That is the Holy Book of Al Quran!
Retaliation Law
In the Old Testament, Exodus 21:11-22:19 stated the Retaliation Law,
namely death sentence for
killer, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth:
“He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.”
[Exodus 21:12]
“21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,25
Burning for burning, wound
for wound, stripe for stripe.” [Exodus 21:24-25]
But on the New Testament the Retaliation Law is eliminated and the
Christians no longer follow
the rule.
In the Al Quran the Retaliation Law restored:
“O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the
murdered; the freeman
for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the
female…” [Al Baqarah:178]
The Retaliation Law applied so people will think twice before they kill
others. If they kill
other people then they will be sentenced to death so they could no longer
kill innocent people
again in the future By this way the world will be safer for innocent
people (but not for the
killers):
“And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that ye
may ward off
(evil).” [Al Baqarah:179]
Evil or Serpent who Cheated Adam and Eve?
In Genesis 3:1-19 said that Serpent is the most clever among animals and
could talk so it could
cheat human: Adam and Eve:
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every
tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden:3 But
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath
said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:5 For God
doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” [Genesis 3:1-6]
3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman
said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above
all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou
go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life” [Genesis 3:13-14]
In the Quran said that the cheater of Adam and Eve is Satan. Not animal
like serpent:
“But Satan caused them to deflect therefrom and expelled them from the
(happy) state in which
they were; and We said: Fall down, one of you a foe unto the other! There
shall be for you on
earth a habitation and provision for a tune.” [Al Baqarah:36]
If in the Christianity Adam and Eve remain as sinners and passed their sin
to their descendants
as original sin, in Islam after they regretted and asked God’s
forgiveness, God forgive them.
There is no original sin to pass to their descendants.
“Then Adam received from his Lord words (of revelation), and He relented
toward him. Lo! He is
the Relenting the Merciful.” [Al Baqarah:37]
The Jews regard themselves as the Chosen People while the Christians
believe there is no
salvation for those who don’t believe Jesus as a God so they send many
evangelists/missionaries
all over the world to make people become Christians. Islam said only Islam
the religion that
God loves:
“Lo! religion with Allah is The Surrender to His will and guidance
(Islam). Those who
(formerly) received the Scripture differed only after knowledge came unto
them, through
transgression among themselves. Whoso disbelieveth the revelations of
Allah (will find that)
Lo! Allah is swift at reckoning.” [Ali ‘Imran:19]
“And whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender to Allah (Islam)
it will not be
accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter.” [Ali
‘Imran:85]
Those are some differences in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Though
there are many more
differences, yet Muslims are recommended to have a good social
relation****p with them as long
they are not hostile or insulting Muslims or Islam.
Though there is no compulsion in religion, yet Islam forbids Muslims to
mix their religions
with others. Your religion is for you and our religion is for us. That is
the Islamic teaching.
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