Europe has never been united, and Christianity has played a great role. Although it was genetically mutated and free-ranged, it failed to unite Europe into a theocratic "kingdom of priests", but it also played a contradictory role in helping Europe, and the immigration-led West represented by the United States, to gradually lead the East and stand in the center of the world stage.
Christianity began as a lay disciple of Judaism, or not even a lay disciple. This is like Confucius through the Five Classics, through the six arts, speaking the "Analects", although the Zhou people respected, with the Zhou people handed down the classics, combined with his own writings to teach his disciples, the creation of Confucianism, but he mainly relied on diligent study and hard study, visited famous teachers, sought advice from many sources, self-taught, can not be said to be the disciple of King Wen of Zhou, Zhou Gongdan or Lao Tzu - Jesus is generally the same.
Christianity regards the Hebrew Bible as the "Old Testament", and continues the "Bible and New Testament", regards the two as the classics of the town, and develops into the state religion of the Roman Empire. In this way, it is not appropriate to say that Confucianism is a second disciple of the Zhou Dynasty Tianjia, from the perspective of cultural inheritance, and it is not nominally stamped and officially certified by the "master".
In any case, Christianity is a late generation of Judaism. The younger generation takes the treasure of the predecessor's town religion to worship the desk, takes the guiding ideology out of context, and then continues the scriptures and meanings of the religion, recruits believers, and quickly becomes bigger than the blue.
Judaism, as a predecessor and a "teacher", was squeezed into a remote and dark corner by the younger generations and disciples of the "state religion", and could only stare at the disciples and grandchildren who "betrayed" him, and attacked kings, expanded land, and launched crusades on the Eurasian continent.
Three or five hundred years later, another "re-disciple" of Judaism, still of a foreign race, came out of nowhere, directly swept away a number of Christian countries where he lived, and beheaded and expelled hundreds of millions of his disciples who believed in Christianity like leaves swept away by the autumn wind; and after establishing the "kingdom of priests" that he had always been fascinated by, he dominated Jerusalem, the holy place at the tip of his heart, for a thousand years as a "pagan state."
Fast forward to the 7th century A.D., when the tribes and clans of the Arabian Peninsula fought and fought against each other, usurers were rampant, and the poor, orphans, and slaves were in fear. "The Arabs are steeped in superstition, cruelty, and depravity...... among them. Their religion is a kind of brutal idolatry, and their faith is a horror of superstition about ghosts and gods...... Thirteen years before the Hijri era (622), Mecca was lifeless in this terrible situation" – Sir William Muyer described it in his book The Life of Muhammad (London, 1894, vol. 1).
At that time, the Han people were at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and a "primary school student" named Li Shimin followed the father of the hereditary Tang Guogong to guard around and go to school in Suizhou. In 610, at the age of forty, Muhammad was meditating in the cave of Hira when the angel Jibril sent by Allah to convey to him the Qur'an and to teach the world to follow Islam by "giving warnings" and "good tidings" to the world as Allah's messenger.
In the next decade or two, the young Li Shimin helped his father unify China, established the Tang Dynasty, counterattacked as Tang Taizong, and left the world with infinite reverie of the dream of returning to the merit, which is almost mythical. Muhammad, who knew the Mandate of Heaven, went against the trend and proselytized the Islamic theocracy in Medina, defeated the Mecca army, and basically unified the Arabian Peninsula during his lifetime, creating the "Arab Empire" - their descendants had fought several battles in Central Asia, and the latter's descendants only won once in Talas in 751, and the rest were abused, so the eastward expansion of the Arab Empire could only stop at the borders of the Tang Empire.
Elsewhere, however, after the formation of the Arab Empire, Muhammad's successors embarked on a campaign of expansion that lasted for more than a hundred years. The Arabs rose to prominence on the southern frontiers of Byzantium and Persia at an astonishing rate, establishing a feudal military empire spanning Asia, Europe and Africa, with an area of 13.4 million square kilometers at its peak, nearly one-third more than Canada today, and only about one-fifth less than Russia - there were 1.6 billion Muslims in 2010, about 23% of the world's 6.9 billion people - Muhammad was revered as a "Muhammad", a "permanent miracle" in the history of human civilization.
The Qur'an is the only fundamental text of Islam, which was passed down orally by the Prophet Muhammad and recorded and compiled by his disciples. The basic ideas of Islam conveyed in the "Bible" are derived from the teachings of Judaism and the Bible compiled in the early period of Christianity, and integrate the cutting-edge ideas and concepts of Persian-Mesopotamian civilization and Greco-Roman civilization, and are the culmination of humanistic classics at that time.
There are as many as 25 prophetic messengers mentioned, the most important being Adam, Nuhai, Ibrahim, Moses and 'Isa, namely Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus in the Bible - the Prophet Muhammad is the last messenger, the greatest messenger, the most holy messenger, the messenger of seals, with the glorious mission of conveying the word of "Allah (i.e. Allah]"; all who believe in Allah should obey Allah's messenger.
Islam is a religion of strict belief in the "one God" of the "invisible substance", believing that there is no god but Allah, the supreme Lord of the universe. The Prophet always claimed to be an apostle of Allah and never said that he was divine. Although there is also a clause in the Islamic creed of "believing in angels", it always insists that angels are also created and do not have divinity.
This makes Allah in Islam as pure as JHWH and "My Lord" in Judaism, and the "Heaven" and "Reason" that the Han people believe in, and prevents Muslims from arguing, infighting, and self-destructive about the divinity and humanity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit like Christians.
More importantly, it ensures that Allah's Godhead does not fall and that Muslims can be more faithful and holy in their faith in his revelations, in accordance with his creed, and in following his messengers...... It can be seen that the 40-year-old Prophet Muhammad understood the Hebrew Bible more thoroughly than the 30-year-old Jesus 580 years ago, had a higher level of transcendent ability and thinking, a more thorough insight into the real society, the human heart, and human nature, and was even more extraordinary in talent, knowledge, foresight, organizational ability, and military talent.
Chapter 3 Man's faith is right and wrong for 5,000 years
Chapter 5 Since he became a god, man has fallen into the abyss
One Study: The Theory of Creation: "The Awakening of Human Nature"