Is Muslim religion even a religion or has it been evolved from The Bible itself?

Like those who could not feel that God is merciful, who did not believe in Christ formed another group and made laws, a few taken from Torah and largely according to their own personal will

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assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

Christianity is probably a sideline of Judaism, evolved from judaic circles who did not accept the monotheistic dogma of the jews (or were unaware of it).
The "early history" of Christianity as told by Christians is most likely a typical religious founding myth, a construction that was setup much later. Chances are that Jesus (which simply means "the saviour") never existed as a historical person. At least there are no reliable contemporary sources which might prove the existence of that person.
The following figures most likely never existed – they are just the embodiment of a founding narrative:
Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad.
Not sure about Buddha; Laozi is entirely legendary; there was never a historical Laozi.

JonathanSJ · 36-40, M

@assemblingaknob This has been copied and pasted in here from some website.

Jews knew that The Christ would come and documented it.
Muslims knew that Jesus was there and documented it.

Jesus Christ elaborated the commandments of Moses. He did not add or subtract any.

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@JonathanSJ but Moses preached about god as a unified being, not split into 3. This is why Jews find Christianity offensive. And the Torah explicitly has a verse with Ahmed/mohammad's name in it as the prediction of the final prophet.

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@JonathanSJ And there are documented literary scripts that speak of Christians and jews in Mohammad's time who travelled long distances to reach mecca/madina when they heard of the last prophet's arrival. They were in search of the (I think13?) signs of the last prophet according to Judaic and christian legends. When they found that this person mohamad fulfilled those signs, after skeptically observing him over a period of time and meeting with him several times, they finally converted to Islam. Again, I think you should refer to theological history books for a clearer and more accurate narration of these events. I only remember this from school theological history books as a part of the UK Cambridge syllabus.

Fertilization · 36-40, F

@assemblingaknob By Jesus you mean Isa??

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@Fertilization to be more accurate, by jesus I mean Iēsous or yehoshua. Names evolved because of different accents/pronunciations in different parts of the world.

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@Fertilization Similarly, in different dialects of Arabic, mohamed is Ahmed, Mahmed/Mahmad, and Muhammad.

Fertilization · 36-40, F

@assemblingaknob All I am trying to know is that you believe that Isa’s existence has no proof???

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@Fertilization No. My comment was a sarcastic copy paste of another comment on here but with the tables turned.

LadyGrace ·

@assemblingaknob JonathanSJ has told you the exact truth. The proof is not in man-made philosophy or books. The proof is solely in the experience, which includes the Holy Spirit sent to us from God, when we accept His Son, Jesus, as our Lord and Savior. He is our Teacher and guide in life. And since Jesus's mission on Earth is finished, before He left this earth, He told us to tell everyone His Plan of Salvation, so that none would miss heaven. Also, so we would not have to guess about how to get to heaven. But man in his arrogance, decided he would set his own standard for salvation instead of listening to Jesus, and that will never work. We are not wiser nor smarter than Jesus. If any say we are, there is no truth in them.