Both
Christianity and Islam take their creation stories from the Hebrew Bible. Therefore, they are
very similar. However, whereas Christianity has simply adopted the Jewish creation account, the
Quran, as dictated to Muhammed, made some changes. Both accounts say that God or Allah created
the earth in six days, but whereas the Christian account says that on the seventh day God
rested, the Quran states:
We created the heavens and the
earth and all that is between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch
Us.
The Quran also says that Allah created all living
creatures except humans from water, which is not true to the Christian account. However, both
stories tell of the creation of Adam and Eve: the Quran is more vague about how Eve was created.
Adam in the Quran is created from mud, as he is in the Christian account.
Hindu creation accounts differ, but a major one says that Brahma, the creator god, created the
world. Brahma also created a woman, named Shatarupa. She was so...
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