What ideas did Christianity and Islam adopt from Judaism?

Answer 1

Both Abraham and Jesus spread their beliefs during a time of uncertainty: Abraham's people had no homeland before Canaan, and the Jewish people in Jesus's day faced occupation of their homeland by the Romans.

Answer 2

Christianity and Judaism both believe in one God and that this God is the creator. His attributes are also a commonly shared idea or belief as are the scriptures which Christians refer to as the Old Testament.

Jewish Answer

Although the Christian Old Testament was based on the Tanach (Jewish Bible), it was altered to support the teachings of Christianity. Additionally, as Christianity was largely based on the rejection of Judaism, the two religions don't really share any ideas, including their concepts of God.

Answer 3

Neither Islam nor Christianity adopted any idea from Judaism. The three religions are from same God. Neither of the three religions is human made or human invented religion to adopt or borrow ideas from previous religion or religions.

Upon start of mankind, people were taught through God prophets to be on full submission (that means Islam) to God. All prophet missions; including Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, were assigned to call people for and teach them to hold submission (Islam) to the one and only one God, the Creator.

In this sense:

Islam per God revelation of Torah to Moses is called Judaism.

Islam per God revelation of The Bible to Jesus is called Christianity.

Islam per God revelation of Quran to Muhammad is called the very name Islam.

Accordingly, the three God religions; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: are created by same God and hence the three God religions have the same main beliefs in one God, belief in angels, ... etc as the founder of the three religions is the same God. Accordingly, the claim that any religion adopted some ideas from other religions may not be generally true.

Answer: Almighy God sent about 1,24,000 prophets for the guidance of human beings. The basic beliefs taught by all these holy prophets are the same- ONENESS of Almighty God Who alone desrves worship, without any Associate. Belief in the Angels, Prophets, holy Books, and the life after death-with the Day of Judgement. Christianity is an advanced form of heavenly religion, and Islam is the final and complete form of the Same religion. Hazrat Adam (AS) bein tghe First Prophet, down to Abraham (AS), Jacob (A) Moses (AS), Jesus Christ (AS) and finally Hazrat Muhammad (May peace be upo im)

Answer:

Both Christianity and Islam accept the Hebrew scriptures as their foundation, although Muslims believe that the Jews altered some earlier material in the original scriptures in order to favour their own people. Christians and Muslims accept the prophets and legendary ancestors of the Hebrew Bible. Monotheism, belief in one God, is the most important single Jewish belief that Christians and Muslims share, although Christianity is to some extent a modified form of monotheism.

Christians and Muslims believe in heaven as a place or state of reward, which was adopted from Judaism, and in hell as a place of punishment, which was briefly part of Judaic belief and then abandoned as inconsistent with God's mercy. Both these notions appear to have entered Jewish belief from Zoroastrianism during the Babylonian Exile. Belief in angels is another idea taken from Judaism. Christianity developed the idea of demons, which is not really part of Judaism, so Islam owes its teachings on evil spirits to Christian belief rather than to Judaism.

Answer 4

The most important idea that Christianity and Islam adopted from Judaism was monotheism, with God the creator of all. The concept of heaven as a place of reward was not yet universal among the Jews, and the concept of hell has never really been adopted by Judaism.

Angels had been part of Judaic belief since the time of the Babylonian Exile, and are now part of Christian and Islamic belief. The concept of Satan as the evil adversary of God is common to Christianity and Islam, but in Judaism Satan is the loyal assistant to God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful.

Answer 5

There are some teachings in common within all three modern religions, though Judaism and what is termed Christianity are more in sync than Islam.

Early Judaism has its roots in God's direct instructions to the Patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph. Moses was 'reinstructed' to these physical instructions that had been lost in 400 years of Egyptian slavery. They were passed predominately through the Southern Kingdom of Judah - term 'Jews' which led to Judaism begun in Babylonian captivity circa 586-516 BC. Through the subsequent years to modern times, many different interpretations of the law and outside thought have pressed upon the teachings of Judaism.

The followers of Christ (called 'The Way' and eventually Christianity), were 'reinstructed' to the full interpretations of the Law given to the House of Israel and then practiced only by the Jews after the Kingdom split post Solomon. Both the physical and now spiritual components were displayed in the daily actions of Jesus, the Christ. His disciples (means imitators of Christ), called the Apostles then spread the now 'spirit-filled' Law to all who would repent and be baptized to follow in the ways of Christ and receiving the promised 'Helper/Comforter' or God's Holy Spirit aka the Spirit of Christ within them. However, from the time of the beginning of this fuller understanding, outside thought pressed upon the teachings of 'The Way' and corrupted much of today's modern 'Christian' teachings.

The founder of Islam - Mohammed - became exposed to a variety of religions in his early life of the 7th century AD including Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism and other philosophical concepts. So it should come as no surprise that the religion he founded was a syncretistic blending of religious teachings and customs. "Religiously it stands in the Abrahamic family of religions, while philosophically it builds on the Greeks" (quoted by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi, Inside Islam, 2002, p.11).

Of course, Judaism and post-apostolic Christianity as briefly noted above also incorporated Greek falsehoods like the immortality of the soul and the modern concept of hell as a place of eternal punishment (read Dante's Inferno for similarities).

Answer 6

Most who answer this type of question will usually say all three believe in one God. But that may be true in a sense of the term 'one' only. Who there God is is quite different.

In reality then, there really is no similarity to best describe the Judeo-Christian

beliefs of God to the Muslim Islamic belief.

Judaism and Christianity have the Old Testament in common. Islam believes both

OT and NT have been partially corrupted in transmission while the Koran is

believed by Muslims to be the final and infallible revelation of God's will.

Though Muslims believe in God which they call Allah, Islam teaches that Allah

is all-powerful, sovereign and 'unknowable' while Judaism and Christianity both

teach the Creator God to be revealed as merciful, compassionate and knowable

(see Jeremiah 9:24 and John 17:3).

The Christian text teaches the God of the Old Testament was the Word and it was

He who Abraham and the other patriarchs and prophets worshiped. Islam teaches

the Word, aka Jesus 'as one of perhaps 124,000 messengers of prophets Allah has

sent and is one of the 25 listed in the Koran - but He is not the redeemer'

(Marvin Olasky, "Islam vs. Liberty," World, Sept 10, 2011).

All in all, there are more differences and conflicts between the

Judeo-Christian texts and the Muslim text, as well as the Koran conflicts with

secular history.

Answer 7

The teachings of the Old Testament (Christian) and the Hebrew Bible (Jewish) although the order of the books and some minor scriptural differences are present.