The Effect of Organized Christianity’s Early Departures from its Roots Upon the Rise of Islam

This is an outline of the third part of my attempt to link early errors of organized Christianity to the state of the modern world--specifically, in this part, by showing how they influenced Islam. Links will be added as future posts are written.

• Muhammad’s Rejection of the Visible and Violent Divisions in Christianity as the Motivation for His Work.
• Muhammad’s Response to Neighboring Cultures’ Dismissal of Arabs
• Evidence of Muhammad’s Contact With Christians and Christianity
• Points of Agreement Between the Qur’an and Biblical Christianity
• Muhammad’s Unequivocal Adoption of an Absolute Form of Divine Simplicity, Rejecting the Other Aspects of All Christian Views of God.
• Muhammad’s Adoption and Revision of Christianized Roman Do ut des.
• Muhammad’s Adoption and Extension of Christianized Roman Idea of Use of Religion as the Ultimate Form of Social Control—The Perfect Islamic State
• Muhammad’s Adoption and Extension of Contemporary Christian Moralism
• Muhammad’s Absolutizing of Contemporary Christian Concept of Individual Responsibility for Moral Wrongs
• Muhammad’s Adoption and Extension of One Contemporary Christian Concept of the Judgment—Balancing Good Deeds against Bad Deeds, with Certain Religious Deeds Outweighing Most Bad Deeds
• Muhammad’s Rejection of the Atonement, Based on a Contemporary Christian Error in Explaining It
• How Just War Became the Political Aspect of Jihad
• Muhammad’s Adoption and Extension of Contemporary Christian Ideals for and Limitations on Women in the Polygamous Arab Culture
• Development of these Concepts in Later Islam as these Developments Became Relevant to Later Christianity

Back to Outline of Concurrent History of the Organized Church Institution, Divisions Among Christians, the Rise and Influence of Islam, and the Present State of the West