wn lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.” (New Oxford Annotated Bible, 9:5) Thus, the holiness of life is proclaimed to all the inhabitants of earth, not just those whom are made in Yahweh’s image but also the animals He created. Finally, in Christianity, Jesus Christ gives up his life so that the world’s sins may be forgiven. It is through this loss of holy life through which all sins are redeemed. Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” (Jn. 14:6) Therefore, the sanctity of life in Christianity is so great that the only way to achieve eternal life is through the loss of life by the religion’s most holy figure.It is through these similarities between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that the members of each faith can reconcile having some belief in each of the related religions. The comparison of the faiths does not need to rest upon the shoulders of one mortal man. Jesus’ divinity is negligible because each religion teaches the same moral code, the same concept of god and believes in the holiness of the basic human condition: life. As Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese poet phrases in his poem “The Voice of the Poet”, “I love you when you bow down in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.” ...
