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Ancient Religion: Comparison Of Islam And Christianity

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Ancient Religion
Kathleen Yarbrough
Post University
October 1, 2017

Ancient Religion
Islam and Christianity both originally came from the Middle East, and both have many differences and similarities. I believe that Christianity was the first to come about in the 5th or 6th century, then Islam came about in the 7th century, it is hard to tell what information is correct and what is not because much of the information is conflicting. I do believe from all the information that I read that this piece of information was correct, the Islam people believed that if you do something wrong you pay, and the Christians were more passive and believed in forgiveness.
Both Islam and Christians believe in hell. " A place of everlasting punishment for

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