How did Christianity and Islam spread?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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:

• Indonesia is the country with the highest Muslim population in the world (Muslims in Indonesia account for about 13% of Muslim world. Did Islam spread in Indonesia by war? sure not.
• Did Islam in China, the phlippines, Malaysia, west Africa, etc spread by war? sure not.
• If Islam spread by war what prevents those Muslims to convert bacvk to their former religions ot faiths after the apparant current weak powers of Muslims
• Why Islam till now is spreading?
• How do you explain the convert to Islam by many public figures of other religion followers.
• Refer to the related questions below for more information.

Answer 3

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.