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  Islam and Christianity both trace their faith to Abraham, both honor Jesus, and both call their followers to worship one God. Yet their paths diverge in how they understand revelation, the nature of God, and the role of Jesus in salvation. 1. The Core Difference: Who Is Jesus? This is the defining divide. Christianity teaches that Jesus is the Son of God , divine , and Savior of humankind through his death and resurrection. Islam honors Jesus ( Isa ) as a prophet , born of the Virgin Mary, but not divine and not crucified ; he is revered as a messenger who pointed to God, not as God Himself. For Christians, Jesus is the center of faith. For Muslims, he is one of many prophets leading to the final revelation. 2. The Nature of God Both faiths are monotheistic, but they express that oneness differently. Islam proclaims absolute monotheism — tawhid — God is one, indivisible, and beyond human form. Christianity professes the Trinity — one God in three persons: Father, Son, an...

  Today's book excerpt comes from  An Afternoon's Dictation  by  Steven Greenebaum . This book has been in the Amazon top 100 among interfaith and ecumenical books on many occasions. PART ONE: THE CALL TO INTERFAITH CHAPTER TWO   “Religion is but a language for speaking to Me.” It’s hard to overstate how crucial this revelation was. In the 50 years of my life that preceded the revelation, that thought had never once occurred to me, now that it was laid in in my lap it made perfect sense. It made sense and answered a bucket-full of questions. The first and most pressing question it answered for me was this: if there were indeed one and only one “right” answer to the question of God and how to relate to God, why didn’t humanity know what that answer was? After thousands upon thousands of years, why were there so many differing answers? The ancient Greeks were no dummies. They’d gifted us Sophocles, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and so many other brilliant thin...