Of the world's population approximately two thirds are adherents of Christianity and Islam. Christians are open minded to Islam but disbelieve in the claim that Muhammad was God's prophet. Muslims are averse not to the precepts, but to Christianity's doctrine of Trinity, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Atonement. They accept Jesus as God's prophet and believe that he was the Messiah unto the Children of Israel. However, they reject the claim that Jesus is the Son of God.

Israelites, Jews in particular, reject upfront and outright, Jesus and Muhammad. To them, Prophethood ended in John the Baptist. The role of John is clouded in mystery. His birth is recorded as extraordinary and his advent was in fulfillment of their scriptural prophecies. Yet, they toy and fiddle over whether he was indeed Elias "which was for to come" or not. As a people singled out by God, it was their concern to have known for sure who John was. It has been to their loss in not doing so. For that, two millenniums have passed and they have not recovered.

Muhammad is identified with Islam. Muhammad was the prophet through whom Allah revealed the Qur'an upon the basis of which Islam is founded. It is of significance to know that: (a) Muhammad is a perfect role model exemplifying Islam and (b) in his lifetime Islam was established. Twofold factors unparallel in human history. His claim of blood kinship to all prophets descending from Abraham is indisputable.

Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian. Christianity was founded in his name but not by him nor in his lifetime. His life exemplified his version of Judaism, the religion into which he was born and into which he exhibited full faith, proof of which that he left no writings of his own nor no mandate authorizing the substitution of Judaism with Christianity.

It is unexplainable why the Children of Israel should reject both Jesus and Muhammad. Jesus was the star of David and Muhammad was the son of Abraham even as John was the moon reflecting Elias' light whom God raised up as the horn of salvation in Jacob's house. And were not their advent, each his distinctive mission prophesized in the Torah, Zaboor and the Gospels? Much as it was Jesus' task to free his people out of Rome's rule, the biblical records are unanimous that his condemnations were levied mercilessly against the priesthood of the church, not the rulers of the state. That Muslim victors are today's victims, fingers are likewise pointing to Islamic clerics not to governance.

Whether Christianity does, Islam certainly teaches that each man is accountable for his own soul. God's "ruh" is implanted in the conscience in every man and he is his self. If he errs, he is to blame; if he sins, he is in shame, no one else. Jesus is son of Mary, both of whom were mortals (who are dead). Worship Allah. Shun the deity of virgin birth. Muhammad was upfront that Jesus had a father. Follow him. Not the clerics. Three ills that Islam abolished are idolatry, slavery and priesthood. John is the focus of attention. The Qur'an reveals that he was born in peace, that he died in peace and that peace will not reign on earth until (the day) he is raised up to life again.

	"Say, O Allah, Lord of sovereignty, thou gavest sovereignty, to whomsoever thou pleasest and thou takest away sovereignty from whomsoever thou pleasest. Thou exhaltest whomsoever thou pleasest and thou abasest whomsoever thou pleasest. In thy hand is all good; thou surely hast power to do all things."
	Qur'an 3:26