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Explanation: Â 1. The Holy Land is, according to many, the most sacred place on earth. All important events related to all three religions have occurred in the Holy Land, in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Jerusalem itself existed before these three monotheistic religions appeared and was a city of peace and justice, which symbolically depicts the core, the original teaching of all three religions. For the Jews, this is the city of the promised land, where according to God's promise the chosen people settled, and where the first Jewish temple was built according to the instructions God gave to Moses. For Christians, this is the city where Christ was crucified and from where a second monotheistic religion emerged and spread to all over the world. For the Muslims this is the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended into a heaven in his supreme journey.
2. The sacred books of all three religions are essentially similar, they speak of God's promise, there are differences in interpretation. The difference is, of course, who wrote them, because it is a historical distance when they are written. All three books speak of paradise for righteous people and hell for unrighteous, God's covenants and promises. Regarding the religious texts itself, the Jews do not recognize the New Testament, while the Christians who first acknowledge the New Testament accept the Old Testament from which the New Testament came, as Christ's interpretation of the Old Testament, along with the new promise. The Qur'an, as a holy book of the Muslim, contains the visions that Muhammad had and for which he was told to write them, from which all the rules of Islam derive. The Qu'ran as such recognizes certain teachings from the Bible, although not all, especially not about the Son of God, because no one in the Qu'ran explicitly speaks of Christ as the Son of God. The Qu'ran, like the other two books, recognizes Abraham as the supreme ancestor of all the nations and the founders of all three religions.
3. When it comes to division and the difference within each faith, there are most of them in Christianity. The first division was to Western and Eastern Christianity, that is Catholicism and Orthodoxy. This first disagreement was due to the different interpretation of the Holy Trinity. Later, the Catholic Church separated Protestant, Anglican, and consequently many other Protestant churches, some of which we have today. In the Orthodox Church there was a division of iconoclasts and protectors of icons, and in addition, the independence of many local churches, where each of them included a national element, although the Church is above the nation.
In Islam, from the very beginning, the division into Sunni and Shia dispute over who should be the caliph, whether he is the direct successor of Muhammad, or who is sufficiently capable and credible. Even today, there is a strict division between these two Islamic options.
In Judaism that has the longest history, there are divisions in the interpretation of the Bible by various rabbis, and all of these interpretations are recorded in the Talmuds. There are even interpretations of previously interpreted interpretations, depending on historical circumstances and changes. So there are many determinations and indications where the rabbi can only understand. Thus, there is a pre-Babylonian, then the Babylonian Talmud, various other interpretations from the millennium Jewish scattering, etc.
4. All three religions are in essence very similar if not the same, the question is, later interpretations and historical influences and changes that these influences brought. In all the holy books mentioned there is talk of love, mercy, unconditional hospitality, forgiveness, paradise for righteous people. This example of unconditional hospitality was given by Abraham, much before the appearance of these religions when he hosted three guests in the desert. He as the father of all three religions is also what is similar between them.
5. The basic differences between the three monotheistic religions are primarily in the interpretation of Jesus Christ. According to the Jews, Christ is not a messiah; he is yet to come, but he was a rabbi who taught people of faith. According to Christians, Christ is the Messiah and he is the second one from the Holy Trinity, which is in contrast to Islam that does not recognize the Holy Trinity, and for them Christ is just one of the prophets, as Moses or the last of them that appeared, Muhammad.
