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While Christianity and Islam hold their recollections of Jesus's teachings as gospel and share narratives from the first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), the sacred text of Christianity also includes the later additions to the Bible while the primary sacred text of Islam instead is the Quran.
The Scrolls of Moses (Arabic: صُحُفِ مُوسَىٰ, Ṣuḥuf Mūsā) are an ancient body of scripture mentioned twice in the Quran. They are part of the religious scriptures of Islam. Jordanian scholar and professor of philosophy Ghazi bin Muhammad mentions that the "Scrolls of Moses" are identical to the Torah of Moses. [23]
Injil (Arabic: إنجيل, romanized: ʾInjīl, alternative spellings: Ingil or Injeel) is the Arabic name for the Gospel of Jesus ().This Injil is described by the Qur'an as one of the four Islamic holy books which was revealed by Allah, the others being the Zabur (traditionally understood as being the Psalms), the Tawrat (the Torah), and the Qur'an itself.
However, more recently, Reynolds has argued that while corruption of meaning (taḥrīf al-maʿānī) was often invoked by interpreters, this was done for the rhetorical purpose of arguing against Jewish and Christian interpretations of their own scripture, while Islamic authors typically did also believe in the corruption of the text itself ...
The Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, along with the Bible, serves as the permanent "impersonal pastor" of the Church of Christ, Scientist. The Methodist Church of Great Britain refers to the "doctrines to which the preachers of the Methodist Church are pledged" as doctrinal standards. [9]
In contrast to Christianity, Satan promises immortality or to "become like angel" by approaching the tree. The reference to "angels" might be an interpretation of the Biblical ʾĔlōhīm. Whereas ʾĔlōhīm are considered a reference to God in the Christian tradition, Islam adopted this term as a reference to angels. [19]
In Islam, Jesus (Isa) is considered to be a messenger of God and the Messiah who was sent to guide the Descendants of Israel (Bani Isra'il) with a new scripture, the Gospel . [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Quran mentions Jesus by name 25 times—more often than Muhammad [ 26 ] —and emphasises that Jesus was a mortal human who, like all other prophets, had ...
According to Islam, Jesus never claimed to be divine. [57] Islam sees Jesus as human, sent as the last prophet of Israel to Jews with the Gospel scripture, affirming but modifying the Mosaic Law. [97] [98] [51] Mainstream Islamic traditions have rejected any divine notions of Jesus being God, or begotten Son of God, or the Trinity.