Jesus’s role in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

My name is Francesca Di Leo and today I will be writing about the two chapters that intrigued me the most in the book chapter 5 and 6; which talk about the three main religions around the World.  These are Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and specifically I’ll be talking about the role Jesus had in each one of these religions.  Judaism which is the root of Christianity and Islam, Jewish believe only in the Old Testament.  Their primary book the Torah or “The Law” comprises of five books: the Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy; the other two books are “The Prophets” and “Writings”.  Judaism does not accept the New Testament because they do not accept Jesus as the Messiah or as a divine force.  To the Jewish community, Jesus was just a common person spreading his own thoughts about God, but they did not believe he was the actual son of God.  In Judaism God is a non visible force that cannot be touched but just felt, so a human could not be the Messiah. 

In Christianity Jesus played an imperative role that changed history and sped up the spread of Christianity.  Christians believe in both the Old and the New Testament, which means they accept Jesus as a divine force and as the Messiah.  They believe that he was born from a divine birth between Mary and God, and that his miracles were real and the proof of his Holiness.  The main point or event that did split the people’s opinion about Christianity was Jesus’ Resurrection, which divided non believers which kept following Judaism, and the believers that converted from Judaism to Christianity.

Finally Islam which is the final religion and revelation of God, does believe Jesus existed ( in Arabic “Isa”).  Their main book called the Qur’an says Muslims considered Jesus one of the most influential prophets in spreading God’s words and also believed in his miracles which were granted by God, not by Jesus himself.  Still just as the Jewish, Muslim do not believe Jesus was divine, because to them God or (Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful) was an invisible force and the last prophet to them was Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) which is the man that started spreading Islam. 

I hope this blog helped people see how no matter how different these three religions are, and in the end they all originated from the same root and do incorporate some the same figures or idealisms.

Ch 2, Greece and its MANY Gods

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Greek gods/goddesses

Hello humanities class! I'm Brandy Smith and today I will be blogging about Ch 2. but not all of Ch 2 just what really stuck out to me the Greek gods and goddesses. I found this to be very interesting because each god/goddess tells a story about what happened in Greece. There were MANY gods/goddesses from the god of war all the way to the goddess of the Earth. Each god/goddess had their own jobs.One of my favorite Greek mythology story is the story of how the seasons became. Demeter had a daughter named Persephone, and Hades, the god of the underworld fell in love with Persephone and they became wed. Persephone isn't in the underworld all the time but when she is, that's when Demeter the goddess of agriculture kills all the crops and that's where fall and winter come from, and when she is with her daughter the crops grow and that's where spring and summer come from. Another interesting thing about the Greek gods.goddesses is that they had the chance to become human people and even fall and love and reproduce with regular people. That is where half gods/goddess came from. Another one of my favorite stories was the story of how Dionysus was born. Zeus the god of kings was in love with Semele and had relations with her, but Zeus has a wife named Hera who was a jealous goddess. Hera convinced Semele to have Zeus show his true being to her and he did and she burned alive, but Zeus was able to save their unborn child and carry him in his thigh. That's how Dionysus was born. Greek mythology is very interesting and fascinating and that is why I chose to blog about it. Have a great day class!! <3 Brandy Smith