Today in History, in the year 632, the founder of Islam, Mohammed, dies. The followers of Mohammed are called 'Muslims'. Islam spread rapidly throughout Arabia, much of Africa and Asia. Mohammed was born in Mecca and died in Medina. You can visit his grave site.
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Islam is one of the three major world religions. Islam differs from Christianity in that the founder of Islam is still in his grave, whereas the founder of Christianity rose from the grave and is alive today. His body is not in the tomb anymore. Islam has 5 pillars of faith that are required by Muslims to do. It is in the keeping of these 5 pillars that Muslims hope to be good enough to go to heaven and avoid hell. However, in Christianity, the standard is keeping the 10 Commandments. The Bible is clear in that no human being is able to keep the Commandments in such a way that God requires. It tells us that if one Commandment is broken, it is the same as breaking all of them. The payment for breaking the Commandments is death. Physical death and spiritual death in hell forever. In Christianity, since no one is able to perfectly obey the Commandments, and since everyone has broken them, there needs to be an atonement made for sin (the breaking of the Commandments). The founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ, who is also God's only Son, came to earth to live a perfect life, and became the atonement for people's sins. People all over the world can put their trust in Him and He will save them from their sins (and from punishment in hell). After He was killed, His body was placed in a tomb, but something happened that had not ever happened before in History. He arose from the dead three days later. He was seen by many people after this, then, He was taken into heaven. He will come back to judge the people on the earth one day. Those who have repented of their sin, and have trusted in Him will go to be with Him in heaven. Those who reject Him will end up in hell forever. We do not have to try to obey rules and hope that we have done a good job so that maybe one day we can hope to go to heaven. We can know for sure whether we will be in heaven or not. It is not dependent on our good works or how hard we tried, but it is dependent on the life that Jesus lived while on earth, and the death He died to atone for our sins. We can trust in Him and when we do, we get into heaven, but it is on His score, not ours. For more information on this subject, please go to: Gospel Conversation or, Are You A Good Person? Test
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