Part 1/3 Mainstream Religion (surface): Judaism VS Islam VS Christianity!
Itās absolutely fascinating! This is from my study and reading of the Books themselves:
-Torah (Judaism which is the first 5 books of the Bible),
-Gospels (the New Testament), and -Qurāan.
First, everything stems from the Avesta of Zoroastrianism, but it was twisted from the original intention. Zoroastrianism nearly snuffed out.
Remember this is a mainstream, surface breakdown with my own flareā¦
After the Avesta, the Torah is writtenā¦
The beginning of life. Settlement. God, the only God. 10 commandments. Basic natural law. Traditions and holidays. Written starting around 1300 BC. (Before Christ).
The next books of the Bible from Joshua to the New Testament we will ignore for now,
Then, the New Testamentā¦Starting around the 40ās AD. (After Death).
Jesus birth is year 0.
So, the first century this New Testament enters. Jesus, love, compassion, sort of hippy movement. Be kind, love the children, treat others like you would want to be treated. Magical stories to tell all this.
Probably the Torah was getting a bit too stuffy. Old school. Boring.
Now, hereās the rubā
All these people were following Torah, (first 5 books of the bible), and by the time the end of the writings of Torah and the beginning of the New Testament, was conservatively 500 years.
So, Torah believers were pretty established! Biblical foundation of the first 5 books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, was the go to book.
THEN, new testament comes about and starts to call a character named Jesus, the Messiah. He is the anointed one, which means chosen.
He has special powers. Power to not need a sperm to be made. Special power to make mass food appear where there was little food. Power to walk on water. Power to put a hand on you and youāre instantly healed from near death. Power to die then come alive and have a conversation with you and youād be able to stick your fingers in his wounds. Power to disappear. Power to make you go to heaven.
You get the ideaāSuper powers.
Then, all those that were following the Torah for 500 years saidā¦
Wait a second! This is bullshit! No man can do these things! No man like that is real!
But they say it in a nice way and they sayāwell, maybe this Jesus dude was a nice guy, a good prophet, but he is no Messiah! We were the chosen ones to write the origins of life and create Judaism because we are from Judea, and we are the ones that actually wrote the Torah! (First 5 books of the bible). What the heck is this New Age bullshit?!
They say this Jesus dude is NOT the Messiah.
But some people felt like they really wanted to believe this Jesus had special power, this New Testament is cool, and they split off from the Jews and became Christians. New Testament hippies.
And thus the rub between Christians and Jews.
I meanāthe Jews werenāt actually all that wrong. Imagine a magical book like Harry Potter being dropped in and then everyone started to think that the character in the book doing magic, actually had magical, defy logic, defy the physical plane, abilities! It probably felt like crazy making that people were falling for it.
So, the Jews were basicallyāweāre not falling for it. You Christians go your way and we will go ours.
BUTālots of people were not thrilled with Jews not conforming to this New Book starting in Matthew. The foundation of the Jesus story.
600 years after the New TestamentāThe Quran came along and decided that IT would decide who is right and who is wrong among Christians and Jews.
The Quran lays out the foundation that first came the Torah, then came the Gospels. And that the New Testament (Gospels), and the virgin birth, is all true.
Itās basically, likeāyeah, Torah was cool, but we have a new guy in town called Jesus. And he is for sure the messiah. ā45.Ā Ā The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, well-esteemed in this world and the next, and one of the nearest.ā -Quran