Islam and Christianity

Islam and Christianity

Christianity, which claims to have nearly 1.2 billion adherents all over the world, is a Semitic religion. It owes its name to Jesus Christ (peace be on him) and the Holy Bible is the sacred scripture of the Christians.

The Bible is divided into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the Holy Scripture of the Jews and contains records of all the prophets of the Jews that came before Jesus (peace be on him). The New Testament contains records of the life of Jesus (peace be on him).

The complete Bible of the Catholics, i.e. the Old Testament and the New Testament put together, contains 73 books, consists of 46 books of the Old Testament and 27 books of the New Testament. However, the Protestant Bible i.e. the King James Version, contains only 66 books as  they consider 7 books of the Old Testament to be apocrypha, i.e. of doubtful authority. Therefore the Old Testament of the Protestants are only 39 books. 

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