Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are known as the monotheistic, Abrahamic religions. Followers of Islam are known as Muslims and followers of Judaism are known as Jews. All three faiths use different texts; the Muslims use the Quran, the Christians have the Holy Bible and the Jews rely on a modified version of the Christian Old Testament. Quranists use the Quran, while other Muslims may accept certain supplementary texts as the truth.
Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is one of the three Abrahamic religions. All three belief systems are based on the history of the same family, that of the prophet Abraham. What follows explains the basis of the three religions based on the story of Abraham as found in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is not an attempt to convert anyone to a particular faith and is meant to be purely descriptive.
God created the Earth as a home for Man. He created Man as a source of companionship. Eternity can get boring and lonely if you don't have anyone to talk to. The purpose of humanity is to love, praise and worship the Lord. Adam and Eve were to be the mother and father of all humanity. God gave them the run of the garden of Eden and dominion over the animals. Their one and only restriction was to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, a former archangel of God, had other ideas. He was insanely jealous of the new pair. One day, he caught Eve unawares in the Garden. Posing as a snake, or serpent, he lied to her and told her that it was okay to eat the forbidden fruit. So she did, and she shared it with Adam.
When God discovered that his beloved creatures had disobeyed is only rule, he cast them out of Eden. Mankind fell deeper and deeper into sin, breaking God's heart. He decided to destroy the world and all its inhabitants, apart from a man named Noah and his family. He commanded Noah to build an ark, a giant ship, and to save his family and a breeding pair of each of the animals.
Of all of Noah's descendants, God noticed that a man named Abram was a righteous man who really loved Him and lived his life the way God had desired for everybody. He loved Abraham so much, that he promised him and his wife, Sarah, that their descendants would number as many as the stars. As they grew older without having any children, Sarah became impatient, and sent her maid, Hagar, to go to Abraham and start a family. Hagar had a boy named Ishmael, and the strange family lived harmoniously.
That was until Sarah finally had a son, whom they named Isaac, by Abraham. At this point, Ishmael was 13 years old. Sarah had no further interest in Ishmael, and sent him and his mother packing. God promised Hagar that Ishmael would father a great nation. He did, and that nation became the Arab nation, out of which grew the Islamic faith.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.
Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is one of the three Abrahamic religions. All three belief systems are based on the history of the same family, that of the prophet Abraham. What follows explains the basis of the three religions based on the story of Abraham as found in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is not an attempt to convert anyone to a particular faith and is meant to be purely descriptive.
God created the Earth as a home for Man. He created Man as a source of companionship. Eternity can get boring and lonely if you don't have anyone to talk to. The purpose of humanity is to love, praise and worship the Lord. Adam and Eve were to be the mother and father of all humanity. God gave them the run of the garden of Eden and dominion over the animals. Their one and only restriction was to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, a former archangel of God, had other ideas. He was insanely jealous of the new pair. One day, he caught Eve unawares in the Garden. Posing as a snake, or serpent, he lied to her and told her that it was okay to eat the forbidden fruit. So she did, and she shared it with Adam.
When God discovered that his beloved creatures had disobeyed is only rule, he cast them out of Eden. Mankind fell deeper and deeper into sin, breaking God's heart. He decided to destroy the world and all its inhabitants, apart from a man named Noah and his family. He commanded Noah to build an ark, a giant ship, and to save his family and a breeding pair of each of the animals.
Of all of Noah's descendants, God noticed that a man named Abram was a righteous man who really loved Him and lived his life the way God had desired for everybody. He loved Abraham so much, that he promised him and his wife, Sarah, that their descendants would number as many as the stars. As they grew older without having any children, Sarah became impatient, and sent her maid, Hagar, to go to Abraham and start a family. Hagar had a boy named Ishmael, and the strange family lived harmoniously.
That was until Sarah finally had a son, whom they named Isaac, by Abraham. At this point, Ishmael was 13 years old. Sarah had no further interest in Ishmael, and sent him and his mother packing. God promised Hagar that Ishmael would father a great nation. He did, and that nation became the Arab nation, out of which grew the Islamic faith.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.
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