BirdofPrey Posted:

Functionally, the way things are now, all 3 religions believe in the same god. Allah is now just another name for him. If you want to get really anal with the whole history thing you could the same kind of things about christianity as well. Most of the early christians were converted pagans, and many christian holidays are loosely based on old pagan traditions so that converts would feel comfortable.

edit – if anything, christianity is the one out of the norm, as judaism and islam are both unconditionally monotheistic and the whole ‘jesus’ thing blurs that line. And the catholic holy trinity erases that line.

I disagree that the trinity thing blurs the line, but that is opinion and debateable certainly.

However, the fact that the first Christians were Jews is not debateable.

The first Christian church was made up of (converted) Jews, who simply saw Jesus or (Yeshua in the Hebrew) as the Messiah or Christ. They were not converted Pagans.

It was not until the Apostle Paul went on his many missionary trips spreading the religion to the Greeks and Romans, , after Peter had a vision of a tablecloth full of unclean animals lowered from Heaven, when the church became made up of mostly converted Pagans. Until then the religion was Jewish only.