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Term Paper Title	A Comparison Of Islam And Christianity
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A Comparison of Islam and Christianity

Middle East
Grade: A (90%)
System: IB

     There are hundreds of religions in this world. Of them two are the most
prominent. Islam and Christianity. It is averaged that there are 750 million people
practicing Islam, and another 1 billion practicing Christianity.  The start of Islam is
actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that  one night in the
year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of
the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of
Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). The message
Muhammad received told him that there was but one God (Identical to the
inception of the Ten Commandments), not many gods, as most Arabs believed.
This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis
Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and
He would one day judge mankind (This is also true in Christianity: "The Lord will
judge his people." Hebrews 10:30). Both of these religions share almost the same
framework, but they also differ in many ways.
     The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will
of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The
basic creed of Islam is brief: There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the
Prophet of Allah.  Islam teaches that there is one God, the creator and sustainer
of the universe. This God, Allah, is compassionate and just. Because He is
compassionate, He calls all people to believe in Him and worship Him. Because
He is also just, on the Last Day He will judge every person according to his
deeds. On the Last Day, all the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with
heaven or punished with hell. In Christianity one of the Ten Commandments
states that "I am the Lord you God.....you shall have no other gods before me",
also identical to Islam God is considered the creator of the universe, and he is
also just. On the last day, or judgment day, the same holds true as in Islam in the
Christian beliefs, the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or
punished with hell.
     Mankind is regarded as the crown of creation, entrusted by God with
management of the whole created order. In Christianity this was Adam, who had
dominion over all the animals and beasts of the earth. Islam sees humanity as
weak and prone to disbelief in God and to disobedience to His will. Humanity's
weakness is pride. In the Christian religion it was pride that caused the downfall
of man, Eve thought that God had no right to tell them what they could and could
not eat. In Islam, God sent prophets to communicate His will. These prophets, all
mortal men, were elected messengers to whom God spoke through an angel or
by inspiration., identical to Christianity, an example of that was God sending
Moses to free his people out of Pharaohs hands. In Islam, they also believe in
forgiveness, another basic Christina principle, Islam teaches that God is always
ready to pardon the individual and restore him to the sinless state in which he
started life. In Christianity this is called being "born again".
     The life of each Muslim is always within the community of the faithful: All
are declared to be "brothers to each other," with the mission to "enjoin good and
forbid evil." Within the community, Muslims are expected to establish social and
economic justice. They are also expected to carry their message out to the rest of
the world.   In the early Islamic community, this meant the use of force in the form
of jihad, or holy war. This also happened in the Christian faith, it was known as
"Crusades", where missionaries would go out and spread the word of God. The
intent was not to force conversion on anyone; this was forbidden by the Koran
and the Bible. The object of jihad  and the crusades was to gain political control
over societies and run them in accordance with the principles of Islam and
Christiani...

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