Jesus and Mohammed

Running head : Jesus and Muhammad

Jesus and Muhammad

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I . Introduction

Jesus Christ and Mohammad are the two most believed in by people in the face of the earth . Their teachings have been promulgated to the different parts of the world and different walks of life . Christians strongly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and a God himself who came to earth and lay down his life for all mankind regardless of color and race thus , he and the Father are one . However , for Islam

believers , Christ is a prophet sent by God and Mohammad is the true prophet

The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the lives and teachings of Jesus Christ and Mohammad when they were still alive

II . Discussion

A . Birth and Life on earth

Jesus Christ

Two of the Gospels , those of St Matthew and St Luke , provide information about Jesus ' birth and childhood . They also provide genealogies tracing Jesus ' descent through Abraham and David (see Matthew 1 :1-17 Luke 3 :23-38 . Presumably , the genealogies are offered as proof of Jesus ' messiahship . According to Matthew (see 1 :18-25 ) and Luke (see 1 :1-2 :20 , Jesus was miraculously conceived by his mother . He was born at Bethlehem , where Joseph and Mary had gone to comply with the Roman edict of enrolment for the census . Matthew alone (see 2 :13-23 describes the flight into Egypt , when Joseph and Mary took the child out of reach of the Judaean king Herod the Great . Only Luke relates the compliance of Joseph and Mary with the Jewish law , which required circumcision and presentation of the first-born son at the Temple in Jerusalem (see 2 :21-24 Luke also describes their later journey (see 2 :41-51 ) with the young Jesus to the Temple for the Passover feast (see Dodd , C . H . The Founder of Christianity . London : Collins Fount , 2000 The Gospels mention nothing concerning Jesus from the time he was 12 years old until the time he began his public ministry , about 18 years later

Beginning of His public ministry

All three synoptic Gospels (the first three Gospels , so called because they present a similar overall view of the life of Christ ) record Jesus public ministry as beginning after the imprisonment of John the Baptist and as lasting for about one year . The Gospel of John describes it as beginning with the choosing of his first disciples (see 1 :40-51 , and as lasting for perhaps three years

The account of the public ministry and immediately preceding events is generally the same in the synoptic Gospels . Each describes the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan by John the Baptist . Each reports that after the baptism Jesus retired to the neighboring wilderness for a 40-day period of fasting and meditation . All three synoptists mention that in this period , which some biblical scholars view as a time of ritual preparation , the devil , or Satan , tried to tempt Jesus . Matthew (see 4 :3-9 ) and Luke (see 4 :3-12 ) add s...