World Religions

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Religion has played a huge role in world affairs since almost the beginning of time, and is still a very influential subject today. In this paper I will give a brief description of the world’s three predominant religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I also will describe their beliefs, similarities and differences. Three of the major religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all began in the same basic area of the world. This area is what we know today as the Middle East. Today many of these people’s hatreds of each other are based on the origins of their religions. These three religions have similarities and differences because they all basically began in the same part of the world, but more importantly Islam and Christianity are based on the religion of Judaism, and all share many of the same beliefs. Judaism is the religious culture of the Jews. Judaism has always been Monolithic. Monotheists are people that believe in one God. They believe in one God who is the creator of the universe. Nothing that humans experience is meaningless everything has a meaning. The God that created the world revealed himself to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai. When Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, he had the world of God with him. He had the Ten Commandments, which today is found in the Torah, the sacred word of God his actual laws to live by. (Encarta Judaism 1) “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before Me and be perfect, and will make My covenant between Me and you and I will multiply you exceedingly.” Abram fell on his face and God spoke with him, saying, “as for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. Neither shall your name be called anymore Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, because I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. And I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I ...