Early Christians did not force their religion on others but relied on missionaries, preaching, and leading godly lives to draw people to the one true God.8
Muslims, on the other hand, did not rely solely on preaching to spread their faith-they turned also to the sword. While it is true that some did convert willingly to Islam, when they attacked or occupied new territory, they gave its inhabitants three options: convert to Islam, pay a special tax, or die.
Islams spread was mainly through invasion--hate your enemies...Allah hates unbelievers. The message of God's love through Christ cut to the heart of those who heard it--Love your enemies.
All of those who spread Christianity were murdered but a few. They never raised their hands to fight back. Muslims murdered anyone who forcefully resisted them.
Christianity has no parallel. It contains the only person ever to claim to be God and be believed by the masses. The only one to rise from the dead and be believed. Thousands of people witnessed Jesus alive after death and spread his words and miracles. Many healed people and displayed God's power as proof. Islam was spread out the word of just one man who said he received corrections to The Bible in a cave 600 years after the fact. He performed no miracles and no one witnessed anything.
Christianity was akin to a few Guatemalans rowing up to America and claiming Jose rose from the dead and Americans just tore down their religions and believed these foreigners that they considered to be inferior to them.
That is what happend to the Greeks and Romans--eventually the Germans, Russians, and on to virtually every country in the world.
A map of the spread of Islam is just what is to be expected from a local religion like Buddhism. Its center is where it started and branches out modestly in the densely populated Middle East--it also spread to Indonesia much later.
Islam was spread by the sword and Christianity was spread by word of God
AnswerThe answer above about Islam is not true and absolutely groundless, for the following reasons:In its first few centuries, Christianity spread because its profound and credible message touched people when they heard about it. Missionaries like Saint Paul wrote to communities and emphasized that gentiles and Jews could both be part of the new religion. However, as soon as the religion became legal, it became a nation of sorts, sometimes called Christendom. This nation spread the way nations have always spread: through diplomacy and through wars. (It's funny: persecute a group of people and their values are pure and genuine. Stop persecuting them, and their values become merely an excuse behind the power that they are determined to hold.) Islam had a powerful army from the beginning. Thus, it spread by diplomacy and by the sword. Islam's spreading was actually more relevant to its religion's teachings than Christianity's spreading was. Islam has the goal of a world based on submission to Allah, but the teachings of Jesus have little to do with Christendom.
Both Islam and Christianity religions were spread through people free choice and will. However, the early spread of Islam was through fighting against the pagans who were attacking Muslims from time to time. While the early wide spread of Christianity was through the convert of the emperor Constantine to Christianity and accordingly persuaded the empire people to convert to Christianity.
Trade.
Islam and Christianity.
Many of them embraced Islam and became very good Muslims.
Prophet Muhammad spread the religion of Islam so that people can follow/practice this religion. Just like why did Jesus spread the news about Christianity?
Both Christianity and Islam had limited success in areas where Hinduism and Buddhism were dominant. However, Islam succesfully spread to Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, where animism was still the dominant belief system. The spread of Islam in the Philippines also coincided with the arrival of Christianity. Christianity was successful in the colonised north, while Islam succeeded in the south, which was largely ignored by the Spanish rulers.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were all founded in southwest Asia, more specifically the Middle East.
Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
Christianity, Islam
Islam, Christianity
Adherents woldwide of these religions approximately are; Islam ; 1.3 billion (Sunni: 940 million) Christianity ; 2 billion Judaism ; 14 million Islam is the religion which has spread out the most over the years.
If we take time as a measure of the spread of religion,then since its establishment ,Islam is the religion which spread or still spreading rapidly in Asia followed by Christianity.