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The Messiah
By Matthew Fitzpatrick
The Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims all have some sort of Messiah or savior. For the Christians it is Jesus, the Jewish believe he will come after the apocalypse. The Islamic have an idea that is somewhere in between. Their view is closer to the Christian point of view, they do believe in some parts of the Christian story. Jesus came, went to heaven and will return at around the time of the apocalypse is their general view. In Christianity it is believed that the messiah, Jesus, has already come and will come again. The messiah (Jesus) is, at least according to the Christians the son of God and was born to the virgin Mary. Later in his life he began preaching all sorts of stuff that was viewed by the Romans to be wrong and was against their views, they were Jewish. After his conviction he was crucified on the cross by the Jewish ideal believing Romans. It is said that he rose from the dead and later ascended into heaven body and soul together and is now seated next to the father (GOD). He never actually died when he went to heaven but at one point he did die. His spirit, the holy spirit now resided in all who believe. The holy spirit Jesus and God are the Three parts to the trinity. Christians are the only one of the three to believe in the trinity, mainly because they are the only to believe that God has a son. Christians do believe he will play a role in the apocalypse. The Jewish don't see Jesus like the Christians do, it does appear they have some thoughts about him but they don't see him as a savior like the Christians do. At most they just see him as another prophet. This may be due to the fact that Jesus came after the Jewish religion was founded. The Jewish reject that he is the son of God and they also state that there messiah has not yet arrived. They believe that Gods anointed one, the messiah, will come during future events and will be the one to chose the worthy from the dead after the apocalypse. There messiah will save all that believe in God and the messiah. The Islamic seam to believe more of the Christian details of Jesus then the Jewish do. They believe he was born of a virgin just like the Christians do but they don't believe that he was the son of god. They also don't believe in the crucifixion of Jesus, they seem to believe that a double was killed on the cross or that the crucifixion never actually took place. They do tend to believe then he ascended to heaven body and soul like the Christians do, no killing of Jesus ever took place in there believes. Muslims strongly believe in a second coming of Jesus, he will return to our world at around the time of the "End of days". They see the messiah as the one who will fight and defeat the anti Christ. There appears to be more differences then similarities between the three views of the messiah. One of the biggest difference between the three stories of Jesus is how he died. The Jewish people don't seem to have any thoughts about Jesus except that he existed at some Point and he died like everyone else. They don't see him getting taken to heaven by God or being Gods son in fact they feel that God can't have a son because God is one and can't be broken into pieces. The Muslims believe that he was NOT crucified and that god brought him to heaven, in their views Jesus never technically died. He was born to a virgin and was later brought to heaven by god, similar to what the Christians believe with one difference. The Christians feel that he was crucified, rose from the dead and then was brought to heaven by god, in their view he died at some point but did not go to heaven as a result of dying. Two of the stories of the messiah being taking to heaven by god ended the same way but what lead up to the ascension of Christ were different. Depending on what part of the stories you look at it could be a similarity between Christians and Muslims. Only one view of the messiah sees him as the son of God, that as i stated above is the Christian view. The two other views both refuse to believe that he is the son of god, god is god and there are no parts to him around anywhere. God cannot be broken apart into smaller parts, only one true God. You could also say one major difference is that one religion does not even believe the whole Jesus story at all, the Jewish. The biggest similarity I have found is that he, the messiah, will come at around the time of the apocalypse. The Jewish people believe that he has not been to earth yet but will come in time for the end of the world to help in the apocalypse. The Christians and Muslims both believe he was here before but will come again at around the time of the apocalypse. They all believe he will play some role in the apocalypse as well. The most common role they see him doing is choosing the worthy from the dead. Both Christians and the Muslims feel the same about how he was born, he was born of the virgin Mary. Muslims and Jewish have the same view the messiahs connection to god in a similar way, that he is not the son of God.
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This is an enlightening, extremely well-written article that shed new light on things I thought I knew, but didn't really. It deserves more than then 3 stars it currently has, but then members of any religion detest having their beliefs compared to those of others - as the mere act of comparison seems to imply that other people's beliefs are just as valid as their own.
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