Essay On Jewish Religion

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The Jewish believe in the divine presence of God through the teaching of the Tanakh. God’s presence is seen as a helper, a redeemer and a friend. The belief is that God has not limitation of space and thus can be everywhere or anywhere in the spirit. The Muslims do not believe that God can be broken into two parts like the Jewish believe, nor three parts like the Christians believe. God created two realms and those being the divine and the created. God is not mixed between the two because that would compromise the unique oneness of God (Ludwig, 2006, p.472). The belief is that God is one and only one and competes with no other source of power. The Muslims do not believe that you can take something that is one and break it into pieces. The …show more content…

Capitalism and socialism are so obviously at odds that their differences hardly bear mentioning. The same goes for democracy and monarchy. Yet scholars continue to claim that religious rivals such as Hinduism and Islam, Judaism and Christianity are, by some miracle of the imagination, essentially the same, and this view resounds in the echo chamber of popular culture[.]…This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue. There is not reason to seek a reconciliation of religions when the mere differences lead to the uniqueness of each. The beliefs and nature behind each religion leads to peace on Earth and three of the four religions seeking to live a life that follows God’s law and live a life that is good. Even the Buddhist seeks enlightenment to live a good life here on Earth. If there was a push for consolidation of religion, the largest religion is Christianity (Pew Research Center, 2012). There is too much disparity between beliefs for all religions to drop their traditions and culture to gravitate to the Christian belief. The second largest religion is the Muslim. Their belief of no separate parts to God would not align with three persons of God of the Christian

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