Can you compare & contrast the three great religions (judusim,musim,chritian) in the middle east.?
While there are many world religions, there are only three that call for worship of one God: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. All of the other major religions, from Hinduism to Buddhism to Shintoism, don’t really deal with the issues of salvation as we understand it, of heaven and hell. For instance, Buddhism is really more of a philosophy than a religion, primarily concerned with reaching “enlightenment”. While Hinduism worships seemingly infinite Gods, and looks at life as a kind of wheel, where we return, time and time again to “try and get it right”. If we reach the summit of perfection, we become a “Brahma bull”. Conversely, if a man fails to live as he ought, he can expect humiliation in the next life, perhaps returning as a woman (one doubts there are many feminist converts to Hinduism). This “try and try again” idea of life doesn’t fit very well with St. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews (ch. 9, v. 27): “It is appointed for man to die once and then face THE judgment”. Sorry Shirley
