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I'm a believer in Jesus. I believe in His crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. But Islam also makes a lot of sense to me and I believe Muhammad was a prophet.
What can I do to reconcile the two differing beliefs?
Can one reconcile the beliefs of Christianity and Islam?
As my credentials tell you, I am an ex-Muslim Christian.
When I was a Muslim, I thought I could reach out to more of my Christian friends and try to convert them to Islam, if I had known more about their religion. I was probably at roughly the same point where you are right now, only from “the other side,” so to say.
I thought that I could somehow reconcile Christianity and Islam, because on the surface, those two world-religions seem to have so much in common:
Islam teaches monotheism, just like Christianity.
- The protagonists of the Qur’an are 90% people from the Bible.
- Islam teaches that Jesus was a prophet sent by Allah!
- I thought: “What significance is a little difference of opinions regarding the crucifixion, right?”
Oh boy. Was I wrong!
After years of research (this was before the Internet), I came to the conclusion that the teachings of Islam and Christianity are not only mutually exclusive from one another, but I came to the conclusion that the teachings of Muhammad are the EXACT opposite from the teachings of Christ!
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