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Compare Contrast Religion

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Compare and Contrast essay: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Introduction of Religions
Christianity most widely distributed of the world religions, having substantial
representation
in all the populated continents of the globe. Its total membership may exceed 1.7 billion
people.
Islam, a major world religion, founded in Arabia and based on the teachings of
Muhammad, who is
called the Prophet. One who practices Islam is a Muslim. Muslims follow the Koran, the
written
revelation brought by Muhammad. The Muslim world population is estimated at more
than 1
billion. Islam is the quickest growing religion.
Judaism is one of the world's oldest religious traditions. Pre-modern Judaism constituted
(and
traditional Judaism today constitutes) an integrated cultural system of Jewish law,
custom, and
practice encompassing the totality of individual and communal existence. It is a system
of
sanctification in which all is to be subsumed under God's rule. Judaism originated in the
Middle East, but Jewish communities have existed at one time or another in almost all
parts of
the world, a result of both voluntary migrations and forced exile or expulsions.
Origin
The central element of Christianity is the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus of Nazareth, a
Jewish
rabbi, attracted a following of people who believed him to be a new prophet. Their
recollections of Jesus' words and deeds recall his days on earth and the miracle of his
resurrection from the dead on the first Easter. These Jewish Christians began the first
churches, in Jerusalem.
Much like Christianity Islam was based on the prophesies and teaching of person or
prophet,
Muhammad. In Mohammed's time (570?-632), the Arabian Peninsula was inhabited by
nomadic
Bedouins and city-dwelling Arabs. Muhammad began his ministry at the age of 40, when,
he
claimed, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision. At first Muhammad confided
his
visions only to his family and close friends. After four years he began to preach openly in
his
native city of Mecca. Ridiculed by the Meccans, he went to Medina in 622. At his death
in 632,
Muhammad was the leader of an Arab state growing rapidly in power. The third duty of a
Muslim
is to pay zakat. This tax was originally levied by Muhammad ,and later ...

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