Questions tagged [comparative-religion]
Systematic comparison of doctrines and practices of world religions
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Can or do Catholic religious education curricula teach children about other religions?
Catholics are not excluded from studying other religions. In fact several Catholic scholars have become experts on Buddhism and Islam.
But should a child study other religions? Is there any advice ...
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What is the Mormon explanation for the origins of Islam?
I think a basic description for origins of both these religions would be "Charismatic prophet claims that pre-existing Abrahamic scripture is corrupt, but an angel has given him revelation that ...
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What are the main differences between the God of the Bible and God of Quran? [closed]
The Bible reveals the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob progressively from the first book Genesis to the last book Revelations. The teachings of the Prophets and the Apostles not only concur with each ...
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Why don’t Christians accept Muhammad as the true prophet?
Jews had prophets and received Scriptures from those prophets. Later, came Christians who had apostles and through them received Scriptures. Still later, Muslims come along and they have one prophet ...
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Does the divine council in Psalm 82 correspond to different religions that we see in the world today? [closed]
I read the book Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser a few years ago. In that book, Dr. Heiser begins the book by talking about how Psalm 82 opened his eyes to the council of multiple gods in the divine ...
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According to Christianity, to what extent can non-Christians develop and manifest the fruit of the Spirit?
Galatians 5:22-24 (ESV):
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those ...
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What is the the difference between the monotheism of Trinitarian Christianity and Judaism?
If both Judaism and Trinitariansm are monotheistic, Jesus being a jew, do both faiths have the same God?
If the word mono means one, single how can it be explained logically that 3 is 1 and 1 is 3?
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How do Christians who emphasize the "religion vs. relationship" dichotomy respond to claims of "relationship with God" in other religions?
Many Christians emphasize the importance of having an actual relationship with God/Jesus as opposed to merely being religious. The previously asked question What is the origin of the "religion vs....
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What do Jews and Christians agree with in the Bible?
What is the bible such that contains the intersection, of agreement in the word, between Jews and Christians? It seems that it's the
Torah, is this correct? Are there more books?
I said intersection ...
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What problem does Christianity solve for us?
What is it that only Christianity does for us that we can't do for ourselves, and that no other religion solves? All religions with a God (or gods) claim that their God is real (or their gods are real)...
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The Christian Duck Test? [closed]
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
There is arguably little difference between the lifestyle of the Stoic and the lifestyle of the ...
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Comparative religion textbooks from a Catholic viewpoint
Most Catholic text books about religion are about Catholicism, I asked my high-school aged daughter what she wants to study next year for religion class and she said she's like to know about other ...
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How do Christians make sense of exorcisms in other religions?
Jesus in Matthew 12 appears to give a compelling argument against the possibility of demons casting out other demons:
22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus ...
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Are there Christian equivalents for the four sublime attitudes or brahmaviharas of Buddhism (metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha)?
The brahmaviharas are four sublime mental states recognized by Buddhism and for which there exist different meditative practices designed to cultivate them. Concretely, the brahmaviharas are:
Metta (...
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Did Christianity originate from Zoroastrianism and Judaism [closed]
I was researching the history of Satan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan) and came across the following explanation about Zoroastrianism' influence on Christianity,
Is this a debated theory? Is ...
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