The Middle East

The Middle East is a significant historical region where it served as the birthplace for many cultures such as Christianity and Islam. Christianity an Islam expanded from this region, both religions had substantial impact on the course of history. However, Christianity and Islam have their similarities in religious beliefs, and deference a in expansion between the two. Christianity and Islam are the two largest regions in the world. They were both inherited from Judaism. They both believed if they did good deeds they would go to heaven for Christianity and paradise, for Islam. The two religions both had there true gods that sends down a messenger to observe. Jesus was believed as the messenger that came down to observe the people. Allah was the god of Islam who observed the people. They both had a book they looked too. Islam used the qu'ran and Christianity used the bible.

Differences between the two religions was mainly the expansion between the two of them. Christianity established new churches in cities and made the spread of Christianity during the first two centuries. Since Arabia had very few cities islam was spread mostly through villages and rural areas. Another difference was the standards of life. They both used holy books, but they had many different beliefs in them. Such as the qu'ran states that Muslims have the right too beat their wives, while the bible says "love your wife as Christ loves the church. Conversion was different between the two as well. In Christianity, the conversion to Christ is personal and a voluntary decision. Muslims conversion to Islam is a matter of submission to their prophet.
Christianity and Islam have their similarities and differences. They both came from the Middle East and had a big impact on history, but a a big difference in