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Essay on Arabic Faith
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic faiths practiced by about half of the world’s population. The point of departure for Islam, Christianity and Judaism is the people of God and the history that their common Holy Scriptures describe. At the beginning of our era there were within the Jewish people several religious or political groups, each claiming to represent the true interpretation of the Scriptures. As time went on, two main approaches crystallized, the Rabbinic, which developed into what we today call Judaism, and another which became the Christian Church.
The difference between them was not one of acceptance or repudiation of the Holy Scriptures, rather of their interpretation: was Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah whom the Old Testament Scriptures foresaw, and the New Testament proclaims. The Christ that the Church confesses in Jesus is something more – crucified, dead, buried and raised. He was and is, according to the faith of the Church, the truth about God – God’s logos – incarnated in the world. He is the Son of God and is worshipped as true God and true human being. But such an interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures is theological dynamite; it has caused lasting separation between the Church and Judaism.
Hence two movements grew from the same roots, each claiming to be faithful to the old tradition. In one of the movements, the Church, the majority of adherents gradually came to be Gentile. The Church sees its mission as a duty to proclaim the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to all people. Through him, all people may be included in God’s covenant.
Judaism
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