Islam:Christianity's Step child/ An overview of the similarities between Islam and Christianity

There are hundreds of religions in this world. Of them three great faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are historically connected. The real source of the world's great religions is in history, in the reaction of men's spirits to the course of events, or, in other words, to the divine education of the race (Bell 13). The origin from which they all sprang is to be found in the prophetic desire, which the path of history called …

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