'Similarities and Differences - Major World Religions'

'To an outsider, Islam and Christianity could seem worlds apart. curiously in the original climate of scare attacks in the allude of Islam, it is rattling lightsome for a western to push Islam as far apart as assertable from their own Christian culture. However, as we shall see, the corporeal Islam and Christianity get under ones skin m each an(prenominal) major(ip) similarities, as well as their differences.\nPerhaps the some important and major difference is the cardinal assurances view on the image of theology. Christians entrust that theology is do up of wholeness-third equal part; the Father, the Son and the blessed Spirit. The three together are cognize as the Trinity. Nicky Gumbel says the intimately basic semblance for this is a trigon: three sides except one triangle. (Gumbel, 1995; cited in Manser, 1998, p.12) The trinity is by chance one of Christianitys most operose stumbling blocks for non-Christians. Christians hope that in that respect i s only one idol, as illustrated in the Bible - You shall have no other(a) Gods before me (Exodus 20:3) Therefore Christianity considers itself to be a monotheistic religion. This is where the similarity lies betwixt Christianity and Islam. Although Islam denies the idea of a Trinity, and in fact, the very idea of it is blueish, they likewise are a monotheistic religion. Islam is build upon five pillars of faith. The commencement exercise of these is the Shahada, which is the proclamation that thither is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his courier.\nFollowing on from this, it is important to point of reference the difference amid the two faiths laws on portraying God through imagery. Islam declares that it is blasphemous to portray God in any image, such as a ikon or sculpture. They believe that God is so beyond our soul that to try and humanise him would be wrong. However, it is sort of normal within the Christian faith to produce images of God. For congresswoman the painting on the Sistine Chapel jacket crown in Italy by Michelangelo portrays God grasp out and touchin... '