Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus was Jehovah’s first creation, that Jehovah then created everything else by means of him.
The leadership of Jehovah’s Witnesses claims to be the sole visible channel of Jehovah and asserts that the Bible cannot be understood without associating with the Watch Tower organization.
They believe that 144,000 of them will be rewarded with life in the New Earth.
Islam
Muslims believe in the first 5 Books of the Bible and that Mohammed was the Prophet of their God, Allah. Many also believe that Jesus was a prophet.
All that is required is to believe and recite the Shahada: “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his Prophet.”
For a Muslim, the object of life is to live in a way that is pleasing to Allah so that one may gain Paradise. It is believed that at puberty, an account of each person’s deeds is opened, and this will be used at the Day of Judgment to determine his eternal fate.
Like Christianity, Islam teaches the continued existence of the soul and a transformed physical existence after death. They believe in a day of judgment when humanity will be divided between the eternal destinations of Paradise and Hell.
Judaism
The Jews believe they are the inheritors of the Promise given to their ancestor Abraham by a God called “I AM that I AM”. This is the same God worshipped by Christians.
Unlike Christianity and Islam, Judaism has no official creed or universal doctrinal requirements for membership. Good deeds and the Mitzvot, (613 commandments contained in the Torah or Five Books
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