The World’s Religions | Essay

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The World’s
Religions
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1/18/2020

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There are variety of religions in the world with different beliefs and views. Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam are some of the major religions of the world and all these three
religious sects with differing beliefs in God and they have different ideas about their religious
aspects and values. The present essay is based on the seven questions raised by the William
P. Young in his book ‘The World’s Religions.’ The author described his opinion about the
Islam and provided a detailed information and comparison about the world’s famous
religions.
Christianity believes in one eternal God who is creator of all wonderful things, which
are around us. The Islamic religion believes in Allah who is the infinity superior and
transcendent from humankind. However, Judaism believes that there is only one God and that
God is called Yahweh. Like these different thoughts about god, these three different religions
have different views and ideas about the world and people. The present essay compares and
contrasts among these three religions and their ideas about the God and spiritual beliefs based
on the book of William P. Young (Young, 1995).
Judaism is one of the modern religions and it is based on the relationship of Jewish
people with their God. William Young in his book described that people of Judaism religions
believe that they are supported, blessed, and challenged by the God (Young, 1995). Loving
people is the greatest people of Jews social life and the founding inspiration of this Judaism
community. In current time Israel is the major country that supports Judaism community and
accept that all the Jewish people in the world are citizens of Israel (Rubens, 2019). The

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Judaism people also believe that there is a single God who created the universe and every
Jewish people have a personal relationship with the God (Young, 1995). They believe that
God have covenant relationship with people and for this relationship, God has done many
good works and continue to think well about the Jewish people (Young, 1995). The Jewish
community believe the God is almighty and present everywhere in the world and God affect
everything that people do in their life (Stroumsa, 2014). Apart from this, the Judaism
community believe that God appointed Jews to show the ethical and spiritual way of life to
the Jewish people by showing an ethical and holiness behaviour to the world. Judaism is
generally means living the faith and it is also considerable that almost everything that a
Jewish people do is an act of worship (Young, 1995). Young described in his book that
people of Judaism believe that Jew is someone who is the the son of Jewish mother.
However, the Judaism have a very wide range of ideas and religious belief about the God and
they think that God does not have a body, which means God have neither a male or female.
As Judaism religion, Christianity and Muslim religion believe in single God concept and they
think that God have supernatural powers. It is also possible in Judaism that if a person is not
born in a Jewish community, than he or she can be converted in Judaism. The Judaism
religion believes that God is beyond of everyone and is transcendent. The Judaism people
also believe in “The Hebrew Tanakh’ which is holy script and is similar to Christians Old
testament Hebrew: ‘Law. Judaism religion people follow their holy script and believe that an
ordinary Jew, not the Messiah nor a divine person (Young, 1995). The other religion like