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Comparison Between Islam And Islam

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Mayra Alarcon
Rev. Dr. Joshua Hollmann, PhD
REL 252
30 August 2015

JUDISM COMPARED TO ISLAM
Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions with Islam. Judaism embraces a set of beliefs and practices whose base is in the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh; this religion dates back two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham migrates toward Palestine by the indication of a God who communicated with him and claiming to be the one God (as all his ancestors revered and worshiped many gods-false) . Compared to Islam who it is also an Abrahamic monotheistic religion whose dogma is based on the Quran, which establishes as a fundamental idea to believers that "There is no god but Allah" and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
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Also, Judaism believed in those who follow the will of God will be rewarded with good unlike sinful that are destined to sentence by death.
Islam began with the preaching of Mohammed in the year of 622 in Mecca (located in Saudi Arabia) under the leadership of Mohammed and his successors, Islam spread rapidly. The Arabic word Allah means "God". Islamic define Islam as "submission to God Almighty" through of monotheism, obedience and abandon idolatry. Islam 's holy book is called Quran dictated by Allah to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel. Followers of Islam are called Muslims mean "undergoing". They believe that Muhammad is the last prophet sent by God. Muslims accept as a prophet Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Solomon, and Jesus. They also accept the Torah as holy books, Salomon’s books and the Gospels. In addition, Muslims have faith in that any individual, who bow to God, praises and worships him, will be compensated with eternity.
According to the teaching of Judaism there is no set of beliefs upon the acceptance of which the Jew may find salvation. Even Maimonides ' thirteen articles of faith, as close as Judaism ever came to a catechism, is not binding on the conscience of Jews. Judaism has historically put more emphasis on writing the creed. Nevertheless, from Talmudic times, as a way of life Judaism has been distinguished by giving special emphasis to certain beliefs and

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