Questions tagged [comparative-religion]
Systematic comparison of doctrines and practices of world religions
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What is the basis for saying Christians and Muslims worship the same God?
Muslims claim that they worship the same god as Christians do. (Similarly, Christians claim to worship the same God as the Jews do.)
Are there any Christian denominations that accept this claim? If ...
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What is unique about Christianity? [closed]
Inspired by this question: How do Christians explain commonalities between their religion, other major faiths and obscure isolated tribal belief systems?
What is fundamentally unique about ...
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A Christian view of Mohammad [closed]
I would like to present a summary of the Muslim point of view about Christ and in return I ask for the same: Who was Muhammad according to Christians? It's not about who is right or wrong. I just want ...
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How do Christians explain commonalities between their religion, other major faiths and obscure isolated tribal belief systems?
Many belief systems share common themes; an afterlife, rebirth, bodily mutilation and sacrifice.
To me this suggests a shared origin either in history or storytelling (Abrahamic faiths) or that they ...
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What is the basis for the belief that Christianity and Islam worship different gods?
Another question entitled "Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?" requested the basis for the belief that Christians and Muslims do worship the same god.
In this question, I am requesting ...
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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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What assures Christians that they alone are saved?
Christians claim that "they are saved by the sacrifice of Jesus." But there are also members of many other faiths who claim that they are saved. For example, apart from affirming Jesus to be the ...
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Evangelical Christians claim Jerusalem was destroyed in either 587 or 586 BCE. What is the evidence?
Whereas Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 BC, historians, many evangelical Christians, and most others who write on such things believe it was destroyed in either 587 or 586 ...
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Is Christianity more friendly to its own Scripture translation than other religions? If so, why?
Christianity seems to me to embrace translation of its scriptural writings far more than other religions, and to give such translations nearly equal weight with the approximations of the original ...
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What influence did Greco-Roman philosophy have on the doctrine of "creatio ex nihilo"?
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Frequently, Creationists and Theistic Evolutionists will appeal to and debate/discuss the idea of "Creatio Ex Nihilo" (Latin for "creation from nothing") with some critiquing the concept ...
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Do Christians believe that Jews and Muslims go to hell? [closed]
As we know, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the main 3 monotheistic religions.
Quran says:
Surely, those who believed in [God], and those who are Jews, and Christians, and Sabians, -whosoever ...
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Does Christianity give a reason for life experiences, such as in Hinduism? [closed]
In Hinduism, there is a concept of past life karma.
Meaning if someone is born into an unfortunate situation (in a slum, for example) it is because they are paying for sin from a past life.
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Does God ever answer prayers from non-believers?
Does God ever answer prayers from people that aren’t Christian or even from other religions? From what I see, it looks as if Scripture tends to say no. For example:
We know that God does not listen ...
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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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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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