Should we consider Judaism, Christianity and Islam as one religion?

Makes sense. However, I don't think anybody belonging to one of those three religions would be too keen on that idea!

I'm very curious what you might mean by 'Abrahamic in nature'. The fact that all three link themselves to Abraham and his journeying from Ur etc says precisely nothing about the *nature* of each of the three religions.

I don't disagree with your basic outline (other than noting that the 'New Testament' wasn't codified until a few centuries AFTER 45 CE!!), but it misses out a huge amount and thus fails to grasp the enormous differences between the three. Judaism and Islam have a bit more in common than either do with Christianity, but really, if Abraham didn't get mentioned, you'd never have thought they had anything to do with each other. It's like suggesting that Shinto and Zen Buddhism are the same because they both originate in Japan....

Just to note some of the extremely major differences between Christianity and Judaism, that make it completely impossible to consider them different denominations of the same religion:

1. Judaism regards the divine as something completely abstract and non-human. Christianity believes the divine to be present in a real man.

2. Judaism is completely focussed on the here-and-now and trying to live a good life and doing good in the world in order to make life better for everyone. Christianity is focussed on being good and submissive in order to get to heaven after death.

3. Judaism believes that it is just one covenant, a covenant that all Jews are bound by, but that others have their own covenant with G-d and are equal before the divine. Christianity believes that those who don't believe in Christianity are condemned to an everlasting hell.

4. Judaism believes we are born good and have the capacity to do good. Our relationship with G-d is direct. [Most of] Christianity believes we are born with original sin and need a 'saviour' to act between us and G-d.

Is this enough to convince you that we are so utterly different that to consider us as one religion is absurd?

I don't consider them one religion at all. Even though they share common elements of mythology, they don't really believe in the same gods.

Jews were the first to worship YHWH and their mythos is part of Christianity and Islam.

Christianity is VERY different. They have a triune godhead, which is very un-Jewish. And Mary is almost a goddess (in Catholic and Orthodox practice) and the saints are like little demigods. Christianity also has all kinds of new beliefs layered on. Like Jesus dying for your sins. In Judaism, nobody needs to die for your sins.

Islam is in some ways more like Judaism. It's very monotheistic and orthoprax.

answer: No. The beliefs are very different from each other.

For example, to correct some answers - Jews are NOT waiting for a "savior", they're waiting for the actual Jewish Messiah who will not be divine and will not be a savior. No hell, no original sin, no one can take on the sins of others = no savior.

Islam claims that Abraham was a Muslim - ridiculous claim and Mohammad is NOT a prophet for Jews and Christians

Given that the three faiths profoundly disagree on core points, how would that work?

Core Christian beliefs are blasphemous for Jews.

Islamic beliefs are totally different to both Judaism and Christianity.

Christians worship Jesus - neither Jews nor Muslims do.

They are three entirely DIFFERENT faiths!

While they are certainly interrelated, I would say that Judaism would say no to being considered part of a larger religion that including a belief in the Trinty, etc. Even Islam denies Jesus as deity and therefore, there is no common thread, only a common beginning.

No, since the core beliefs of each are different.

All denominations of Christianity believe in the Bible; however, these three religions follow different tenets.

Though they may stem from the same source, they are not the same.

Just like you and your (hypothetical?) brother are born from the same parents, but that doesn't make you the same person.

I've been saying the same thing for years now, and people just look at me like I'm crazy. Yes, they are the same religion, they just branched off in slightly different directions. They have much more in common with each other than they have differences.

Edit: While reading over these answers, I'm amazed at how little some people know about the history of their own religion. Maybe a better understanding of their own belief system would help them understand others.

NO..

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM ARE OFTEN DESCRIBED AS ABRAHAMIC FAITHS.. BUT

DIFFER..

NO.. JUDAISM BELIEVES IN YHWH ONE SOLE GOD ( TANAK AND TORAH.. ( BIBLE)

CHRISTIANITY BELEIVES

FATHER /SON/ HOLY GHOST/ ONE GOD ( HOSOPOES . GOD)

BIBLE ( OT , NT) SOME CHRISTIANS USE ONLY THE NT..

ISLAM BELIEVES IN ALLAH..( GOD) and KORAN Differently.. that Judaism or Christianity

Google/ ALl/ Faiths and See. My answers wwould be too long.

You've got to be kidding or just plain biblical illiterate which I think is the case!

I think that answers both questions.

In Jesus Christ's service,

K