religion & life

origins of the universe - christianity (genesis)

“He made humans in his own image.”

“God rested on the 7th day and made it holy. He was very pleased with his creation because it was good.”

origins of the universe - islam

“Allah created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them in six phases.”

stewardship & dominion - christianity

“The Earth is the LORD’s and everything in it.”

“The LORD took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”

“Have dominion over… every living thing that moves on the earth.”

stewardship (khalifah) & dominion - islam

“Do not cause corruption on the Earth after its reformation.”

"Eat and drink but waste not by excess, for Allah loves not the wasters.”

“God… has made you his stewards… and he sees how you acquit yourselves.”

animals - christianity

“Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.”

“The righteous care for the needs of their animals.”

animals - islam

“Whoever kills a sparrow or anything bigger than that without a just cause, Allah will hold him accountable on the Day of Judgment.”

“It is Allah who made for you the grazing animals you eat.”

abortion - christianity

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”

“It does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. In both instances, destruction is murder.”

abortion - islam (after ensoulment)

“If anyone kills a person… it is as if he kills all mankind.”

“Do not kill you children for fear of poverty - we shall provide for them and for you - killing them is a great sin.”

euthanasia - christianity

“No one is master of the breath of life so as to retain it, and none has mastery of the day of death.”

“You shall not kill.”

euthanasia - islam

“Do not take life, which God has made sacred, except by right.”

“No soul may die except with God’s permission at a predestined time.”

“When their time comes they cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward by a single hour.”

death & afterlife - islam

“Surely we belong to Allah and to him we shall return.”

death & afterlife - christianity

“For god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”