ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

CHAPTER 3
THE DOCTRINES OF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
Christianity, as understood and believed by Christians
of both Roman Catholic and Protestant, persuasions,
means the Three Creeds, namely, the Apostles, The Ni-
cene and the Athanasian. The cardinal doctrines Chris-
tianity are (1) the Trinity, (2) the Divinity of Jesus
Christ, (3) the divinesonship of Jesus, (4) the Original
Sin, and (5) the Atonement. The religion of Islam has no
place in it for any of these dogmas. It believes in the Oie-
ness of God as against the God of Christianity. It consid-
ers the Christian deification of Jesus to be a reversion to
paganism. According to the Holy Ouran Jesus was not
anincarination of God but a Prophet or Messenger of
God, and like all other prophets (including the Prophet
Muhammad), he was every bit a human being. Islam
also rejects the Divine-sonship of Jesus. He may be
called a son of God in the sense in which all righteous
human beings may be called the children of God, but
not in any literal or special sense. In the same way Islam