Christian Vs Muslim

Christian Vs Muslim

The viewpoints described in the three websites were somewhat predictable but still interesting enough. I found it very hard to find common ground on the issues of Jesus, the identity of God, the path to heaven and ability to reason with either religion.
The Baptist viewpoint was similar in many ways of the Evangelistic perspective when it came to the perception of Muslim faith. The Baptists pointed out that Muslims reject Jesus as God and the Muslim response website confirmed this claim. The two Christian websites claim that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died for our sins while Muslims follow Muhammad, their false prophet. The Muslim response did profess Muhammad as their prophet but surprisingly held that Jesus was a prophet that was free of sin, one of the few points the three websites agreed upon. The Muslim response however used logic to explain that Jesus died just like the prophets before him and ate food just like every other man, something that God would not do. The Baptist website claimed that Muslims believed Jesus to not have died at all but to have been saved by God and taken to heaven while Judas was somehow placed on the cross in Jesus’ absence, I did not find this addressed on the Muslim website.
The identity of God was definitely contradictive between the Christian websites and the Muslim response. According to the Baptist position Muslims believe God is beyond our understanding and above our intuition, only prophets and angels can transfer his desires and intentions to us. The Muslim response explains that yes God is above our understanding and even scripture from the Bible is in violation of staying true to the fact that we can possible know what is implied of God’s thought through his actions. The Muslim response explains that we can only follow what is told to us by the prophet Muhammad through the Qur’an, the Hadeeth, and the words of the Imams. The Baptist website even went on to explain how Muhammad had fifteen wives which was...