The Quran, or Koran, is the central religious text of the Islamic faith. Its followers consider it to be a revelation from God. Many Muslims, or followers of Islam, refer to other religious texts, such as the Hadith, a collection of prophetic traditions. Quranists, a subset of Muslims, adhere only the Quran.
The three faiths have a lot more in common than many people realize. All have their foundation in the same family, the family of Abraham. This is the story of Abraham as it is written in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is meant to be used as a source of information. It is not an evangelistic tool.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He planned to create a home where mankind could live and He could enjoy relationships with each and every one of them. Adam and Eve were intended to live in the Garden of Eden and be the parents of all humanity. He gave them the complete freedom of Paradise; the only thing he told them they were not to do was to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
God was furious. He had given them everything. All He had asked in return was one little thing, not to eat the fruit, and they went and did it anyway. They were thrown out of heaven. Centuries later, the descendants of Adam and Eve had discovered lower levels of sin and spent their lives doing their own thing rather than obeying God's principles. God despaired of his creation, and sent a flood to destroy the whole sorry lot. The only ones spared were Noah and his family.
Of all of Noah's descendants, God noticed that a man named Abram was a righteous man who really loved Him and lived his life the way God had desired for everybody. He loved Abraham so much, that he promised him and his wife, Sarah, that their descendants would number as many as the stars. As they grew older without having any children, Sarah became impatient, and sent her maid, Hagar, to go to Abraham and start a family. Hagar had a boy named Ishmael, and the strange family lived harmoniously.
Then Sarah and Abraham had a son of their own, Isaac, and Sarah lost interest in the 13 year-old Ishmael. She cast them onto the street. God sent an angel to Hagar to comfort her and assure her that her son, Ishmael, would be the father of a great nation. This nation became the arabs, who established Islam.
So there it is, the story of Abraham. That is why Judaism, Islam and Christianity are called the Abrahamic religions, because they all have their roots in this one man's family. While there are some major fundamental differences, there is more to unite them than there is to divide them.
The three faiths have a lot more in common than many people realize. All have their foundation in the same family, the family of Abraham. This is the story of Abraham as it is written in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is meant to be used as a source of information. It is not an evangelistic tool.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He planned to create a home where mankind could live and He could enjoy relationships with each and every one of them. Adam and Eve were intended to live in the Garden of Eden and be the parents of all humanity. He gave them the complete freedom of Paradise; the only thing he told them they were not to do was to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
God was furious. He had given them everything. All He had asked in return was one little thing, not to eat the fruit, and they went and did it anyway. They were thrown out of heaven. Centuries later, the descendants of Adam and Eve had discovered lower levels of sin and spent their lives doing their own thing rather than obeying God's principles. God despaired of his creation, and sent a flood to destroy the whole sorry lot. The only ones spared were Noah and his family.
Of all of Noah's descendants, God noticed that a man named Abram was a righteous man who really loved Him and lived his life the way God had desired for everybody. He loved Abraham so much, that he promised him and his wife, Sarah, that their descendants would number as many as the stars. As they grew older without having any children, Sarah became impatient, and sent her maid, Hagar, to go to Abraham and start a family. Hagar had a boy named Ishmael, and the strange family lived harmoniously.
Then Sarah and Abraham had a son of their own, Isaac, and Sarah lost interest in the 13 year-old Ishmael. She cast them onto the street. God sent an angel to Hagar to comfort her and assure her that her son, Ishmael, would be the father of a great nation. This nation became the arabs, who established Islam.
So there it is, the story of Abraham. That is why Judaism, Islam and Christianity are called the Abrahamic religions, because they all have their roots in this one man's family. While there are some major fundamental differences, there is more to unite them than there is to divide them.
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