Muhammad's example and authority are prominent in Islam. The hadith are written compilations ("traditions" or "reports") of the sayings and actions of Muhammad. Thank you to our Muslim friends for you input. We have made changes to the article when they have demonstrated that something should be changed.
By the way, we have had Muslims contact us over the years to suggest corrections to our article. We offer detailed references from the Bible, the Quran, and the Hadiths so that the interested reader can check the sources himself. Applying rules of logic, one can show that a truth-claim is not true by identifying arbitrariness or inconsistency in the claim. At least, what is not true is discernible. But if you are seriously interested in pursuing truth, the following discussion should be extremely interesting. "Don't confuse me with the facts!" If you are in this camp, you may be wasting your time-even made uncomfortable-by reading this article. Many people, including Christians, Muslims, atheists (or whoever) resist using reason and evidence. As noted on our home page, our organization is dedicated to exploring God through reason and evidence. We will clearly show that Christianity and Islam are irreconcilable.
Indeed, many people of both faiths do not even know enough about their own religion to validate its truth claims. Likewise, most Muslims have mistaken ideas about Christianity.
Most Christians know very little about Islam (the Muslim religion). Those people who sincerely want to learn more about these two religions.That is, we will explore and compare the Bible and the Quran (plus the written traditions of Islam called the hadith).Īs we compare orthodox (that is fundamental) Christianity and orthodox (fundamental) Islam, we hope to speak to a variety of audiences, including: We are interested in exploring here what the source documents say concerning these two major world religions, Christianity and Islam. On what basis does one claim to know more about the religion than the founders of the religion themselves? But this is disingenuous, hypocritical, eternally dangerous-and is probably heretical to whichever religion one claims allegiance. Anybody can make up their own religion, for example, by taking from the Bible whatever they want and tearing out the pages they don't want. To get an understanding of Christianity and Islam, we consider irrelevant what Sally and Omar may improvise about their respective religions. They may even attend worship services, but in their own mind reject many of the core beliefs. They take on the label of the religion, but not the beliefs or practices. There are, for example, nominal Christians, nominal Muslims, or nominal Jews, etc. It is common today to profess or practice a religion in ways that are not orthodox. A religious fundamentalist is one who is faithful to the tenets of his religion. Fundamentalism is a synonym for orthodoxy. The term fundamentalist has come to be a pejorative term. We highly recommend this video by an Arabic speaking scholar Nabeel Qureshi who knows both religions well: Seeking Allah Home: Christian apologetics including Genesis, Bible and Communicating with God.