Christianity And Islam Similarities

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Islam and Christianity have many similarities. Actually, both these religions are Semitic, which means monotheistic and their origins can be traced to Prophet Abraham. As, “In both religions a state of purity, or righteousness, is deemed to be bestowed on believers by the grace of God” (Miner, 86). Both Prophets Muhammad and Jesus are Semites, since they spoke Semitic language and lived in the same lands of the Middle East. Indeed,“ Monotheistic religions view revelation as the event of God providing the members of the community in question with the means by which to discern what this underlying, metaphysical account of the human as such is—or to use our own”(Erlewine,12). Also, Prophet Abraham is considered the father of the people in the