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Wait until you hear about Christians' conflicts with other Christians! Also a lot of Islamist terror is directed at Muslims who follow Mohammed's teachings the wrong way.
I think that's more relevant. The differeny Christian denominations worship the same God, rather than Muslims and Jews
Was flabbergasted when I found out that there was a straight up murderous hate between different sets of Christianity. You can tell the book is the perfect word of a divine being, since it spawned so many different mutually exclusive interpretations
The vast majority of denominational split is over Church structure. The Bible isn't really clear on how to run a Church or the very specifics (classic one: when Jesus said "this is my body", how do we interpret that?) yet it's quite clear over the important issues- that Jesus, who is God, died for the remission of sins.
I dont think any Christian who has a sliver of religious education considers the bible to be the word of God. For starters some of the Gospels that are canon already start with an explanation that this is a recollected account. Then there is other chapters like the letters to the Romans and so on. As for the Torah it is also clear that it is containing some revelations but also a lot of interpretation and chronicles.
This is fundamentally different to the Quran, which we Muslims believe to be the word of God as revealed to the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) and preserved in full and in the original Arabic language. Also Muslims are obliged to treat Christians and Jews (people of the book) kindly and respectfully, unless persecuted or attacked by them.
Christians don't believe that the Bible is the literal spoken word of God. Jesus is The Word.
We believe in "divine inspiration" that everything written in it is appointed to be written by God through human authors - that God intended for man to write and compile it. But in reality it's 65 separate works.
The Bible is more of a parallel to Mohammed and Jesus moreso a parallel to the Qur'an if you compare them.
There have been actual crusades inside europe against the 'wrong' type of christians
Honestly, God designed the bible, not so much that it would have many different interpretations, but that certain truths would be hidden from those that do not belong to Him. Just like when Jesus told parables, they weren't understandable by everyone for the same reason.
There are hundreds (likely actually thousands) of Christian denominations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations
Gonna need a lot more arms.
Doesn't Islam also have multiple different sub-cults within that hate eachothers?
Islam isn't unique in that way. The history of Christianity is just various groups fighting over how to believe correctly.
Absolutely
Sunni and Shia are not a 70s pop duo.
It's more like the whole Muslim world vs Iran/Iraq