Comparison among religions assumes some sort of commonality among religions, a very big and perhaps faulty assumption. Unfortunately, most comparisons of religion seems to consist less in the discernment of commonality than in the imposition of it. Whenever, for example, different religions are compared according to such notions as deity, eternity, grace, judgment, salvation, and so on, selected criteria of meaning are used to organize data rather than to discern a pattern within them(Source 1). If there is something common to religions that makes useful comparison possible, it is not obvious to everyone.
The more we learn about religions, the more we appreciate not their similarities but their differences and some are important.
The three religions Christianity, Islam and Judaism have a lot in common. The salvation of these three religions all referred to the deliverance from sin and is acquired in the afterlife(Source 2). When we speak about salvation, we should take into account the following aspects: the Life and the Afterlife. The salvation linked these two in a way that the decay of the body as the physical form will make way to the acquisition or initiation. They have the similar form of afterlife salvation between these three religions.
There is the savior in the religions. The God is the savior in the Christianity, the Lord as Allah referred to Islam religion. When we speak about salvation in world religions we should analyze and take into account three important factors. They are: the resources needed for attaining salvation, the actual way of getting saved and the meaning of being saved. The first 2 aspects deals with the religion which claims that salvation can be attained when a person is using only its inner resources. Meditation, accumulation of wisdom, asceticism, rituals, good deeds, etc all these factors they demand. In other religions a person faces with that fact, that he can be saved only by God through the grace granted by an external personal agent(Source 3).
The concept of eternal punishment compatible with the concept of a benevolent God. In my opinion, when the God loves you but tortures forever- it is completely contradictory and ca not be exist. Maybe, the punishment is possible, but it could not hurt you or cause you a big stress.
After having studied these three religions, we can say that there are a lot of differences in these religions. For example, there are different means of salvation in religions. Correct belief and good deals is for Islam. Correct belief, faith, good deeds, sacraments are for Christianity. Belief in God, good deeds are for Judaism.
The God’s role in salvation is different. It is predestination in Islam, divine revelation and forgiveness in Judaism, predestination, various forms of grace in Christianity. The salvation in Christianity determines by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9). In Islam is achieved through good works, thus personal righteousness must outweigh personal sin (Quran 23:101-103). And, finally Judaism is determined through good works, prayers …