Christianity Vs Islam Essay

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Introduction
With 2.2 billion people around the world in 2016 claiming to follow Christ and Islam having 1.6 billion believers in 2010, Christianity and Islam are the two most popular religions out of the thousands of contenders for a person’s spirituality. Islam is one of the most rapidly growing major religions with an estimated 2.76 billion followers by the year 2050 with the vast majority of its population being in the Asia Pacific region. These religions, in particular, are constantly in conflict, warring on one another in the name of their own Gods, but how different are they actually? What, if anything, do these religions have in common with one another? And what is so different between the two that nations are willing to exterminate other nations for their religion? In both Islam and Christianity, there are a few key subtopics that each religion possesses. These are sin, salvation and afterlife. Between these two religions, each subtopic may be unique to each religion.
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While the purity can be lost with sinning at the age of adulthood (puberty), it can be regained upon a sincere repentance, truly pledging obedience to God, “the Most Merciful will accept” the sinner and erase the sin (Chirri 1980). Islam recognizes the sin of Adam and Eve but teach the justice of God, which would not allow for the sin of one person to affect the purity of generations of humans. With the denial of the Original Sin, the need for redemption is lost because, unlike Christians, the whole human race has not inherited the sin of Adam and Eve. Muslims do not accept that Allah would force an innocent man, Jesus, to pay the cost of the sins of the entire race – for it is not his to bear. The murder, or crucifixion, of Jesus would not wash the sin away, only a good deed could do that

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