Islam: Monotheistic Beliefs

With all I have learned this week and from prior knowledge, both Christianity and Islam are two very similar and different monotheistic beliefs. Both of these beliefs were based off of one God and had there own holy book they went off of and believed in. In addition, these two monotheistic beliefs seem to be about the same realm of topics with mostly different feelings and thoughts about them from each religion. The founder of Christianity is based off of Jesus Christ and for Islam it was Mohammad. Clearly, both these religions are fascinating and I am excited to teach you about them. To begin, Christianity is a religion that is based off of the life and instructions of Jesus Christ, who lived from 4 B.C. - 30 A.D.. There were three main

There were two main groups of Islam and they were called Sunni and Shia. Islam and all of their teaching were in the holy book of The Quran or Koran. People of the Islamic belief, went of the five pillars of Islam, which were Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj. The Islamic belief felt that sinning was based off of weakness, instead of actually doing sins. It was believed by the Islamic belief that in order for you to reach salvation, you had to have accomplishments that outweighed any sins that you may of had from weakness. And with hell, the Islamic belief also felt that it was a place of torment and punishment. Without a doubt, the Islamic belief was a great importance to so many people and was able to change their lives

The two religions are based off of different founders with Jesus for Christianity and Muhammad for Islam. Another difference is that Christians only pray about once a day, while Muslims pray five times each day. The Christians also go to a church, while the Muslims have a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca. And with this being said the main day of worship for Muslims was Friday, while for Christians it was one Sunday. The two religions also had different religious laws with Christianity being based off of the Canon law, while the Islamic religion was based off of the Sharia law. Finally, as shown by the passages the stories are quite similar between Christianity and the Islamic religion, however they seem to be written in their own separate ways with their own types of twists and beliefs of what truly happened. Without a doubt, these two religions have many differences, which is why they both are really