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Christianity Compared with Islam

Join us in an exploration of Christianity and Islam side-by-side to discover the truth.

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Serpent crusher

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:15

The Saviour will defeat Satan (head crushed) through suffering (heal bruised)

An act of divine service

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:5-8

the Wrong Mary

O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.

Quran 19.28

Miriam is the sister of Aaron and Moses

All three are the children of Amran (Exodus 6:20)

In Luke the Father of Mary is not Amran, but Heli (Luke 3:23)

And she lived 1400 years after Aaron and Moses

72 wives in Paradise for Muslim men

It was narrated from Abu Umamah that the Messenger of Allah said: “There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, all of whom will have desirable front passages and he will have a male member that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp).’”

IbnMajah 37.4481

The 'houri' represent a harem of wives in Paradise, repeatedly promised to Muslim men in the Qur'an and hadith traditions. References objectify them as sexually desirable (they are untouched, with 'full breasts' and 'big eyes') and Muslim women are warned not to annoy their husbands, being mindful of the houri.

Written by the Spirit through human agency

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16

Jesus is the word

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

John 1:1-2

See also: Hebrews 1:1-2

God and man in the garden were together

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

See also: Genesis 3:8

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