How does Christianity compare to other world religions?

Answer 1

AnswerLike most other faiths, Christianity :

• teaches belief in a deity
• teaches that it is the one true religion
• teaches high moral principles.
  

Answer 2

All religious faiths, including Christianity, involve belief in some supernatural spirit or deity. They require worship of this deity (or deities) and belief that worship can bring rewards in this life or the next. The various faiths, again including Christianity, teach high moral values.

Answer 3

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Christianity most closely resembles Islam among all the religions of the world. Both are proselytising, monotheistic religions that worship the same God. Both have a history of intolerance towards other religions, although Christianity has generally accepted the presence of Judaism but not Islam, while Islam has accepted the presence of both Judaism and Christianity.

Christianity also resembles Judaism as, once again, both are monotheistic religions that worship the same God and share books of scripture. Judaism was formerly a proselytising religion but is no longer so, while Christianity has always been a proselytising religion. Christianity has a ritual of baptism, in which water is used; at the time that Christianity emerged from the Jewish milieu, Jews had ritual washing.

There are similarities to Hinduism, although Hinduism can generally be described as polytheistic, as each has a godhead of three deities in one. For Christianity, they are God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. For Hinduism, they are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Many of the beliefs that entered Second Temple Judaism and then Christianity, such as belief in angels, and heaven as a place of reward and hell as a place of punishment, can be found in Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Persians who fred the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

All religions teach high moral values. The Christian Golden Rule, to do unto others as you would want others to do unto you, has parallels in almost every religion, both ancient and modern. In the form, "Do not do to others that which you would not want them to do to you," it is known as the Silver Rule.