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Galileo Saudi Arabia Program <strong>Newspaper</strong><br />

2 - Christian belief<br />

By Abdullah Altamimi<br />

People have supernatural power motivates them to<br />

do good deeds toward each other. Since Islam and<br />

Christianity are the largest two religions which<br />

have been encouraging people to love, respect,<br />

forgive and tolerate opponents, I will discuss how<br />

both of them are similar in their core essence.<br />

Some people might think that Islam and<br />

Christianity are different because the ambiguity of<br />

the words father, son, prophet, and mother. Some<br />

people do not understand the connotations<br />

denotations behind some words. I assume that<br />

Islam is extension of Christianity but people from<br />

each party resisted accepting the opponents<br />

because mutual understanding might goes against<br />

their personal benefits.<br />

In the following two figures, I will show how<br />

the two religions are similar in their essence .<br />

1 -Islamic belief:<br />

Allah<br />

Prophet<br />

Jesus<br />

Prophet<br />

Mohammad<br />

•the only one God.<br />

•has no companion.<br />

•has no wife or son.<br />

•holy prophet and God's<br />

messenger.<br />

•created by God.<br />

•the only human-being<br />

who does not have a<br />

father and has a virgin<br />

mother.<br />

•sent to protect people<br />

from their sins.<br />

•prophet and God's<br />

messenger.<br />

•created by God.<br />

•a human-being has a<br />

father .<br />

•has a mother like other<br />

human-being.<br />

•sent to protect people<br />

from their sins.<br />

In the figure above, the semantic relationship<br />

between Allah and Jesus is divine, holy,<br />

supernatural. Islamic belief considers that the<br />

relation between Allah and Jesus unique as<br />

creator and a messenger who will come again to<br />

earth to spread justice and fight sins.<br />

God<br />

(God the<br />

father)<br />

Jesus<br />

(God the<br />

son)<br />

prophet<br />

Mohammad<br />

•the only one God father<br />

has no companion as a<br />

father God. has no wife<br />

but has a son (Jesus)who<br />

come from a divine<br />

relation with Mary the<br />

virgin.<br />

•The divine son of God<br />

the father who was born<br />

as a result of unphysical<br />

relation between the God<br />

and Mary the virgin.<br />

represents a holy spirit<br />

prophet and God's<br />

messenger. Created by<br />

God does not have a<br />

physical father.has virgin<br />

mother.<br />

•Some Christians believe<br />

that prophet Mohammd is<br />

God messnger but they<br />

do not want to convert to<br />

the new version of<br />

Christianity which is<br />

Islam. Prophet<br />

Mohammad<br />

recommended Muslim<br />

people to tolerate<br />

Christians who believe in<br />

Allah but do not accept to<br />

convert.<br />

•Some christians do not<br />

belive that prophet<br />

Mohammad is God<br />

messenger and reject<br />

Islam as a religion. They<br />

does not tolerate Islam<br />

because Islam might<br />

prvent them from gaining<br />

thier personal benefits.<br />

In the figure<br />

above, the semantic relationship between God the<br />

father and Jesus is divine, holy, supernatural.<br />

Christian’s belief considers that the relation<br />

between God the father and God the son unique as<br />

a father and a son who will come again to earth to<br />

spread justice.<br />

In conclusion, I believe that Christianity and Islam<br />

have similarities more than differences.<br />

Researchers and translators should figure out the<br />

similarities between the two religions while they<br />

are interpreting the Holy Quran and Bible. The<br />

Bible was translated From Latin into English and<br />

the translators classified the relation into father and<br />

son relationship.<br />

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