Jesus and Mohammed

Jesus and Muhammad

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 . Background

A . Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ (between 8 and 4 bc-c . ad 29 , the central figure of Christianity , born in Bethlehem in Judaea . The chronology of the Christian era is reckoned from a 6th-century dating of the year of his birth , which is now recognized as being from four to eight years in error . Jesus is believed by the great majority of Christians to be the incarnate Son of God , and to have been divinely conceived by Mary , the wife of Joseph , a carpenter of Nazareth . The name Jesus is derived from a Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Joshua , or in full Yehoshuah ( Jehovah is deliverance . The title Christ is derived from the Greek Christos , a translation of the Hebrew mashiakh ( anointed one , or Messiah . Christ ' was used by Jesus ' early followers , who regarded him as the promised deliverer of Israel and later was made part of Jesus proper name by the Church , which regards him as the redeemer of all humanity

The principal sources of information concerning Jesus ' life are the Gospels , written in the latter half of the 1st century to facilitate the spread of Christianity throughout the ancient Western world . The Epistles of St Paul and the Book of Acts also contain information about Jesus . The scantiness of additional source material and the theological nature of biblical records caused some 19th-century biblical scholars to doubt his historical existence . Others , differently interpreting the available sources , produced naturalistic biographies of Jesus . Today however , scholars generally agree that his existence is authenticated both by Christian and by a number of Roman and Jewish historians (see Barclay , William . The Mind of Jesus . Arthur James , 1999

B . Mohammad

Although in an historical sense Muslims regard their religion as dating from the time of Muhammad in the early 7th century ad , in a religious sense they see it as identical with the true monotheism which prophets before Muhammad , such as Abraham (Ibrahim , Moses (Musa , and Jesus (Isa , had taught . In the Koran , Abraham is referred to as a Muslim . The followers of these and other prophets are held to have corrupted their teachings , but God in His mercy sent Muhammad to call mankind yet again to the truth

Muhammad was a man who lived about 1 ,400 years ago in the country...