In this paper I will give a brief description of the world's three predominant religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I also will describe their beliefs, similarities and differences.

Three of the major religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all began in the same basic area of the world. This area is what we know today as the Middle East. Today many of these people's hatreds of each other are based on the origins of their religions. These three religions have similarities and differences because they all basically began in the same part of the world , but more importantly Islam and Christianity are based on the religion of Judaism, and all share many of the same beliefs.

Judaism is the religious culture of the Jews. Judaism has always been

Monolithic. Monotheists are people that believe in one God. They believe in one God who is the creator of the universe. Nothing that humans experience is meaningless everything has a meaning. The God that created the world revealed himself to Mosses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai. When

Islam was founded in Arabia and based on the teachings of Muhammad, who is called the prophet. The Arabic word Islam, literally means "to surrender." In religious terms in the Koran, it means to surrender to the will or law of Allah A person who practices Islam is a Muslim. A Muslim is a follower Muhammad and is a member of the Islamic community. The Muslims object to the spelling Moslem which they think is a distortion of Muslim.(Encarta 4)

agreement between God and the Israelites. The God of creation entered into a special relationship with the Jewish people at Sinai. Thus they acknowledge that God is the sole ultimate king and his people must obey his commandments or laws. All Jews believe that the great prophet or Messiah will come God and take away the suffering. The earliest of Jews were not monotheistic completely. They worshipped one God but they did not deny that there were other gods that people of other nation believed in. "Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from Egypt and brought them into the promised land. Israelite religion made the people bound to the land and the agricultural cycle of the year. Yahweh was believed to bring the rainfall that guaranteed a good harvest. If the community was unfaithful there would be a drought." (Rice101)

"The Muslims regard the Koran as the word of Allah to Muhammad, mediated by Gabriel, the angel of revelation; they believe that God himself, not Muhammad, is the author and therefore that the Koran is infallible."(Encarta p 1.) The Koran is a collection of the passages revealed to Muhammad during the twenty-two years life as a prophetic Muslim prophet. It is divided into 114 chapters of unequal length. The shortest contains only three verses, the longest containing 306 long verses. (Time 101)

The Sunna is an example of the prophet or known through the Hadith , the body of traditions based on what the prophet said or did regarding various issues. Unlike the Koran the is memorized-either in whole or in part-by many followers of Muhammad during their life time. The Hadith is mainly transmitted orally, however it is possible that error could occur because it is usually carried through word of mouth from person. Therefore, the Hadith is a secondary source to the Koran even though it is almost equally fundamental for most Muslims. (Time102)

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