When it comes to who God is and how one gets to heaven, Can Christianity,

[bubbajwh24]

Judaism and Islam all be correct? If no, then what is the main thing that separates the three? if yes, how can they all be correct if they have a different view on how one gets to heaven? how can they be reconciled if they clearly contradict one another?

 

[CanadianFundamentalist1]

No, they cannot all be correct.

 

[Atarah]

The biggest difference between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is that Judaism and Islam as they are today (and in Islam's case, always has been) teach salvation by works. Muslims believe that if you do enough good works for Allah, you'll go to heaven. But they have no idea what "enough" is. Jews believe that if you follow the laws of the Torah to the best of your ability, you should get to heaven.

Christians believe in salvation by grace. We do not believe that we can earn our way to heaven. Instead, Jesus provides the way. We believe in the importance of works, yes, but that's because we believe that we were originally made to work. We are not saved BY work, but rather TO work.

"For it is by GRACE you have been saved, through FAITH; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; NOT as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand so that we would walk in them."

Grace-based salvation is what sets Christianity apart from all other belief systems, which are all works-based salvation systems.

 

[Johnny]

When it comes down to it, religion doesn't mean anything. I could be a Jew, a Christian, Catholic, and on and on it goes, but there's only one thing that can get someone to Heaven. Jesus Christ, the Son of God came down to this earth and lived a sinless life so that you and I could live with Him eternally when we die. He wants us to live with Him forever so He made it easy for us to do so. You don't have to pray a certain amount of times every day or confess your sins to a priest, (Who, by the way, just so happens to be a sinner as well). You don't have to live a sinless life, even though you should want to do your best to serve Jesus. All you have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and because He loved you personally, He gave His life to save you and me from our sins and from an eternal death in Hell. You don't have to say some fancy prayer, all I know is one day I realized I didn't want to go to Hell, and I believed that if Jesus is powerful enough to raise Himself up from the dead, I can trust that He's powerful enough to take me to Heaven when I die. I hope you choose trust Him too.

 

[reflexologist]

1. In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions. In her task of promoting unity and love among men, indeed among nations, she considers above all in this declaration what men have in common and what draws them to fellowship.

One is the community of all peoples, one their origin, for God made the whole human race to live over the face of the earth.(1) One also is their final goal, God. His providence, His manifestations of goodness, His saving design extend to all men,(2) until that time when the elect will be united in the Holy City, the city ablaze with the glory of God, where the nations will walk in His light.(3)

Men expect from the various religions answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men: What is man? What is the meaning, the aim of our life? What is moral good, what sin? Whence suffering and what purpose does it serve? Which is the road to true happiness? What are death, judgment and retribution after death? What, finally, is that ultimate inexpressible mystery which encompasses our existence: whence do we come, and where are we going?

2. From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This perception and recognition penetrates their lives with a profound religious sense.

Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust. Again, Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination. Likewise, other religions found everywhere try to counter the restlessness of the human heart, each in its own manner, by proposing "ways," comprising teachings, rules of life, and sacred rites. The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men. Indeed, she proclaims, and ever must proclaim Christ "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), in whom men may find the fullness of religious life, in whom God has reconciled all things to Himself.(4)

The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men.

 

[MDW]

Christianity sees that the only way to heaven is through Christ and Jews do not. That is a big differences in view. Christians don't believe a person can go to heaven through any religion other than Christianity.

 

[AshleyP]

well i hope i can somewhat answer your questions. for one if you are jewish by faith they do not believe that God has come to earth yet like muslims and Christians do. a major flaw, in my opinion with the muslim faith is that they believe that God or Jesus was a profit, but according to them profits tell the truth, and Jesus himself said he was the son of God sent to Earth to save us. So why would a profit in the muslim religion lie to them. it does not add up. with jews also they don't really have a set "religion" on if there is a Heaven or not. that is why the Holocaust was even more tragic, Jews believe that their way of "living on" is by having decadents. I hope I helped some....

 

[Enigma]

Judaism is the original faith, and without it (the source), Christianity would never have existed. But, if Christianity is supposedly the continuation of the original, then is Christianity propagating the true message from the original?
Before the time of Emperor Constantine, Christians were persecuted and many Christians were turned in by their religious leaders to the Romans. These Christian religious leaders handed over religious sacraments to the Romans to be burned. When Constantine became emperor, he reinstated many of these religious leaders (known as Traditors for having "hand over"), and those who followed the original sacraments (the Donatists) were against such religious leaders. The Creed of Nicea codified the present day bible, but the Donatists were against the "revised bible". The Donatists were banished, and it is believed that the Donatist sect is extinct. Thus, the birth of Roman Catholic Church.
In 1520, Martin Luther set up the Lutheran Church, as the Roman Catholic Church was corrupted. Money could buy one's way to remission of sins. One main doctrinal change was that a believer is "saved by grace" instead of "saved by works". Secondly, Martin Luther set a precedent for clerical marriage by marrying Katharina von Bora.
*Martin could not justify "saved by good works", because originally he wanted the Jews to convert to the Lutheran Christianity (so that his Church could have legitimacy of Jews, the original people of God, following him) but the Jews refused. He wrote "Jews and their lies" and called for their persecution, killing and confiscation of their properties. He had no good works (in the moral sense).

So, the question is, which one of them is correct? One or none? For every change or adoption that took place, it seemed that man's agenda (for power, control, money, influence) was of utmost priority. It seemed that for every change/reformation that took place, the bible had been more corrupted by humans who want it to suit their own agenda.