Similarities Between Islam And Christianity

Similarities and Differences between Islam and Christianity Though they are two separate religions, Islam and Christianity share many ideas and had similar aspects of development. For both religions, there was great development after the death of their most highly worshipped prophet and a religious divide that would prove to be permanent. With these similarities there are also differences in major aspect of both religions like the disputed death of Jesus Christ and differing opinions on human and animal depictions in art. For both religions, major expansion occurred after the death of the most worshipped prophet, Muhammad in Islam and Jesus Christ in Christianity. Though later in time the Roman Empire would become the home of the Roman Catholic Church, for hundreds of years after Jesus' death, Christians were killed by Roman officials who considered Christians a threat. For Islam, Muslims armies did not expand the empire until after Abu Bakr reunited the Muslims who had gone back to their old traditions due to the death of Muhammad. Under the four caliphs, the Muslim empire expanded to an area over 5,000 miles across from Spain and North Africa to the Indus River. Both Christianity and Islam have holy books yet neither was written before the death of the mot worshipped prophet. Decades after Jesus' death, followers
In Christianity a schism occurred between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church after the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church called the Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church a heretic for worshipping Idols. In Islam, a schism occurred between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims who disagreed over choice of a caliph. The Sunnis believed that the caliph should be a political leader chosen by a group of Muslim leaders rather than a descendant of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and son-in-law Ali and a religious as well as political