Friday with Jacob - Is Christianity Just Another Religion?

Let's look at Islam.

Much of what we call Islam today, the developed tradition of Sharia and Deen, have no clear grounding in the Quran.

It was written later by other people.

Indeed, we have different schools of thought within Islam, including bitter hatred between Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.

We have Alaw- Alawite Muslims, Sufi Muslims.

We have Ahmadi Muslims, Burhani Muslims.

At least 150 major sects of Islam, and variations even within those.

The Nation of Islam of Louis Farrakhan.

Is the Islam today what Muhammad taught? That's a fair question.

How can we say it is when there's at least 150 different types of Islam? But then it's not only peripheral issues Islam disagrees on.

There are fundamental issues within Islam on which Muslims disagree with other sects of Muslims.

Fundamental things.

The role of Ali.

That there's no god but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet.

To this the Shias would add Ali.

This difference has been the source of war between Muslim and Muslim.

Hinduism.

One simply needs to travel throughout India and find out there are various forms of Hinduism.

Hinduism raises all kinds of questions for all kinds of people.

Sikhism, Buddhism.

Is Christianity just another ism? Well, there is much of what is called Christianity today that I would have to say yes, it is just another ism.

No different.

Certainly no better.

But then there's the Christianity originally taught by Jesus.

Let's look at Islam.

Much of what we call Islam today, the developed tradition of Sharia and Deen, have no clear grounding in the Quran.

It was written later by other people.

Indeed, we have different schools of thought within Islam, including bitter hatred between Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.

We have Alaw- Alawite Muslims, Sufi Muslims.

We have Ahmadi Muslims, Burhani Muslims.

At least 150 major sects of Islam, and variations even within those.

The Nation of Islam of Louis Farrakhan.

Is the Islam today what Muhammad taught? That's a fair question.

How can we say it is when there's at least 150 different types of Islam? But then it's not only peripheral issues Islam disagrees on.

There are fundamental issues within Islam on which Muslims disagree with other sects of Muslims.

Fundamental things.

The role of Ali.

That there's no god but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet.

To this the Shias would add Ali.

This difference has been the source of war between Muslim and Muslim.

Hinduism.

One simply needs to travel throughout India and find out there are various forms of Hinduism.

Hinduism raises all kinds of questions for all kinds of people.

Sikhism, Buddhism.

Is Christianity just another ism? Well, there is much of what is called Christianity today that I would have to say yes, it is just another ism.

No different.

Certainly no better.

But then there's the Christianity originally taught by Jesus.