Islam compared to Christianity from a non-expert's point of view
Comparing Islam to Christianity, certain points come to my mind. I might be somewhat off on some of them I hope one day to find some expert in Islamic doctrine and theology to straighten me out re the things I am wrong about.
1. Certain Islamic scriptures point to the notion that those who reject Islam are damned because they have rejected God's true prophet Mohammed. By way of contrast, Christianity in certain scriptures points to the notion that those who reject Christianity are damned they reject an incarnation of God, namely Christ the Son of God. Thus you have certain scriptures in Islam implying that lack of faith in someone Islam considers to be human and not divine leads to damnation; and you have Christianity implying that lack of faith in an incarnation of God leads to damnation. Although Islam is the religion that features many scriptures that condemn what Islam calls "shirk", the associating of something that is not God with God, Islam is the religion saying lack of faith in a not-God leads to damnation, whereas Christianity is the religion saying that lack of faith in a God leads to damnation.
2. Nowhere in Islam, to my knowledge, are there scriptures testifying to how God has many thoughts, speaks many words, and does many things that are not recorded in scriptures. Yet the scriptures of Christianity, in both the Old and New Testaments, admit that there are, and have been in the past, thoughts words and actions of God or God incarnate that went unrecorded in scripture. To me it seems important, that we should remember how there are thoughts in the mind of God that are not recorded in scripture.
3. In Islam, various different passages of scripture contradict each other more often and more directly than in Christianity. It seems to one who is not an expert re Islam such as myself, that in Islam you can find one passage that says that Christians should be given hostile treatment and another passage that says they should be given friendly treatment--contradictions of that sort.
4. It seems to a non-expert observer such as myself, that according to Islam, everything that happens on earth is the will of God. However according to Christianity, the Will of God is not always done on earth as it is in heaven.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
1. Certain Islamic scriptures point to the notion that those who reject Islam are damned because they have rejected God's true prophet Mohammed. By way of contrast, Christianity in certain scriptures points to the notion that those who reject Christianity are damned they reject an incarnation of God, namely Christ the Son of God. Thus you have certain scriptures in Islam implying that lack of faith in someone Islam considers to be human and not divine leads to damnation; and you have Christianity implying that lack of faith in an incarnation of God leads to damnation. Although Islam is the religion that features many scriptures that condemn what Islam calls "shirk", the associating of something that is not God with God, Islam is the religion saying lack of faith in a not-God leads to damnation, whereas Christianity is the religion saying that lack of faith in a God leads to damnation.
2. Nowhere in Islam, to my knowledge, are there scriptures testifying to how God has many thoughts, speaks many words, and does many things that are not recorded in scriptures. Yet the scriptures of Christianity, in both the Old and New Testaments, admit that there are, and have been in the past, thoughts words and actions of God or God incarnate that went unrecorded in scripture. To me it seems important, that we should remember how there are thoughts in the mind of God that are not recorded in scripture.
3. In Islam, various different passages of scripture contradict each other more often and more directly than in Christianity. It seems to one who is not an expert re Islam such as myself, that in Islam you can find one passage that says that Christians should be given hostile treatment and another passage that says they should be given friendly treatment--contradictions of that sort.
4. It seems to a non-expert observer such as myself, that according to Islam, everything that happens on earth is the will of God. However according to Christianity, the Will of God is not always done on earth as it is in heaven.
@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
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