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Differences: Similarities Between Judaism And Christianity

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To start off with, we all know that all these world religions are somehow vastly different from one another, have different beliefs, god or gods and do different things to show it but they still have some similarities between each of the religions that we can find. Most of the religions have one or more similarities between each other, right? Yeah of course, like Judaism and Christianity they definitely should have similarities, we already know they both believe in God and both pray, have same Holy City (Jerusalem). So Judaism and Christianity are similar because both believe in only 1 deity, their supreme being is God, both have the 10 Commandments as their beliefs concerning the “Good Life”. There are more similarities for these two religions that are well known around the world.

Next, Judaism and Christianity both believe in only one deity, who means pertaining to a god or goddess saying the only believe in one god, they are both monotheistic. A lot of other religions are Polytheistic, which means they believe there is more than one god. In Judaism God is the one true creator and in Christianity its one god: father, son, and Holy Spirit. Judaism and Christianity don’t believe there is more than one god which makes them similar while other religions are too. They only know one god and believe in one God, Leader that’s it, no more …show more content…

This Supreme Being is like the leader whom they worship, love and look up to and believe in as god of their religion. Yahweh, Hashem, Adonai are the many names of God in Judaism and Jehovah is the name of God in Christianity, it’s same god different religion. Other religions around the world have different supreme beings or goddesses, like in the religion Islam their Supreme Being is Allah, Hinduism’s Supreme Being is Brahman, while Buddhism doesn’t have any Supreme Being which shows the variety in religions around the

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