Jesus & Muhammad

Jesus & Muhammad

  • Submitted By: chavery
  • Date Submitted: 01/15/2009 8:16 AM
  • Category: Religion
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Jesus and Muhammad: the central figures of two of the major religions in the world. What were their lives like? How did their lives measure up to with one another’s? How did their lives and deaths impact the religions they started? A devout follower of either religion may be able to answer these questions in relation to their own religion but not both religions. It is the goal of this paper to enlighten the reader well enough that they will be able to answer these questions despite of their own religious preference. This will hopefully be accomplished by acquainting the reader with the lives and trials of both key individuals beginning with Jesus and followed by Muhammad.
It is not impossible to build an entire history of Jesus’ life directly from the Bible nor does the Bible detail very much of Jesus’ early life (Fisher, 2005). The gospels feature a great deal of his life from the time he began his ministry and on but they also leave out giant gaps between the time he was born to the time he was twelve then from the time he was twelve to the time he was thirty (Encarta, 2007). The rarity of additional source material and the religious nature of biblical records caused some 19th-century scholars to doubt Jesus’ historical existence. Today however, scholars generally agree that Jesus was a historical figure whose existence is authenticated both by Christian writers and by several Roman and Jewish historians (Encarta, 2007).
It is estimated that Jesus was born between four and eight years prior to what is now known as the Common Era (Fisher, 2005). According to the Bible; Jesus’ Mother, Mary, was a virgin when she conceived him via the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ father, Joseph, was a simple carpenter from Bethlehem (Fisher, 2005). According to the gospel of Luke, Joseph and Mary had traveled to Bethlehem from their home in Nazareth in order to satisfy a Roman ruling that everyone travel to their ancestral city for a census (Fisher, 2005). After making the journey they...

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