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> Christians seem to very rarely realise just how much of muslim faith is lifted straight from the Bible. Couldn't you say a similar statement about Christiani

by comrh 12y ago

> Christians seem to very rarely realise just how much of muslim faith is lifted straight from the Bible. Couldn't you say a similar statement about Christianity lifted from the Torah? The first half of the Bible is just from those stories if I remember correctly.

apta 12y ago
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism come from the same source, so it is natural that there is (sometimes significant) overlap.
vidarh 12y ago
It's a bit different. Islam acknowledges the Torah as a holy script - it is explicitly mentioned in the Quran. Repeatedly. While exactly pointing out that it is a common source for Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The Christian Bible incorporates the Torah pretty much in the form of the Old Testament.. However when I mentioned that muslim faith is largely "lifted" from the Bible, part of my point is that Islam goes further: A lot of the Quran itself consists of fragments of Biblical stories adjusted to fit the message the Quran is intended to convey. Whereas the New Testament of the Bible is reasonably original in content (the Old Testament / Torah borrows from all kinds of preceding religions), in the Quran, the Bible references are woven in all over the place. Of course this makes fully sense under the muslim premise that Jesus was a prophet, and that the Bible is simply an imperfect version of Gods word, whereas the Quran is intended to be Gods actual words dictated word for word to Muhammed - even if the Bible has been "corrupted" by human retelling, it'd make little sense if the Quran was "all new stuff". But a lot of christians have no idea how many of "their" stories that muslims also believe in, and just how closely the two religions are related. Some I've talked about the subject with even finds the idea preposterous and offensive, which is just bizarre.

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> Christians seem to very rarely realise just how much of muslim faith is lifted straight from the Bible. Couldn't you say a similar statement about Christiani

by comrh 12y ago

apta 12y ago
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism come from the same source, so it is natural that there is (sometimes significant) overlap.
vidarh 12y ago
It's a bit different. Islam acknowledges the Torah as a holy script - it is explicitly mentioned in the Quran. Repeatedly. While exactly pointing out that it is a common source for Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The Christian Bible incorporates the Torah pretty much in the form of the Old Testament.. However when I mentioned that muslim faith is largely "lifted" from the Bible, part of my point is that Islam goes further: A lot of the Quran itself consists of fragments of Biblical stories adjusted to fit the message the Quran is intended to convey. Whereas the New Testament of the Bible is reasonably original in content (the Old Testament / Torah borrows from all kinds of preceding religions), in the Quran, the Bible references are woven in all over the place. Of course this makes fully sense under the muslim premise that Jesus was a prophet, and that the Bible is simply an imperfect version of Gods word, whereas the Quran is intended to be Gods actual words dictated word for word to Muhammed - even if the Bible has been "corrupted" by human retelling, it'd make little sense if the Quran was "all new stuff". But a lot of christians have no idea how many of "their" stories that muslims also believe in, and just how closely the two religions are related. Some I've talked about the subject with even finds the idea preposterous and offensive, which is just bizarre.