What religions believe in the New Testament?

Both Christians and Jews follow the Old Testament of the Bible, but Christians also embrace the New Testament. The cross is a symbol of Christianity. The most important Christian holidays are Christmas (which celebrates the birth of Jesus) and Easter (which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus).

What religion accepts the Old Testament as its only holy book?

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Their Holy Book is called the Qur’an	Islam
This religion believes in one Supreme Being.	Christianity, Islam, Judaism
This religion accepts the Old Testament as its only Holy Book.	Judaism
Abraham and Moses are considered prophets.	Christianity, Islam, Judaism

What religion was the Old Testament?

Judaism
The Bible’s Old Testament is very similar to the Hebrew Bible, which has origins in the ancient religion of Judaism. The exact beginnings of the Jewish religion are unknown, but the first known mention of Israel is an Egyptian inscription from the 13th century B.C.

Do Catholics recognize the New Testament?

Catholics rely on the Bible, of course, but they also turn to rituals to enact the full meaning of Scripture. By the end of the second century, the core books — the four Gospels, and the letters attributed to Paul, Peter, and John — were fixed in the canon of what we call the New Testament.

Do Protestants believe in the Old Testament?

With the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament, the total number of books in the Protestant Bible becomes 80. Many modern Protestant Bibles print only the Old Testament and New Testament; there is a 400-year intertestamental period in the chronology of the Christian scriptures between the Old and New Testaments.

Which religion came first Judaism or Christianity?

Christianity was born from within the Jewish tradition, and Islam developed from both Christianity and Judaism. While there have been differences among these religions, there was a rich cultural interchange between Jews, Christians, and Muslims that took place in Islamic Spain and other places over centuries.

Whose holy book is called the Koran?

Qurʾān, (Arabic: “Recitation”) also spelled Quran and Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 ce.

Is the Torah and the Old Testament the same?

Simplest summary: Torah = first five books of the Jewish-Christian Bible, starting with “Genesis” (the Greek title). But note special explanations below. Old Testament is roughly the same as “the Hebrew Bible.” It concerns all the Hebrew laws, kings, patriarchs, and prophets before the time of Jesus.

What is the name of God in the Old Testament?

Yahweh
Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.