The Difference.. Who We Are Inside

Islam is the third of the Abrahamic religions: the first two are Judaism and Christianity.  These three siblings come from the same root and share many things, as your studies have demonstrated to you, yet members of these three religions have fought one another bitterly throughout the last millennium and a half.  Based on the PRIMARY SOURCES (the readings in Novak, and the Lauren Booth reading on the website) what do you think is the most important SIMILARITY or point of agreement between either Islam and Christianity or Islam and Judaism?  What do you think is the most important DIFFERENCE or point of disagreement?  Why?

The most important similarity is the belief and love in one God, and that everything we do is for our one God.  This would be the most important idea that all Muslims and Christians agree on because in the sense that God and Allah both stand for the same thing, an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God.  I believe the most important difference between the two religions is the idea of Jesus being the son of God.  Christians will die to their graves with the belief of Jesus being the son of God, but Muslims believe Jesus to be just another prophet. For Christians this is the biggest difference between them and Muslims.  I do not believe it is the way we dress or what we eat that makes the biggest difference, but what each believe in that matters the most.