I was a bit stunned. Here I had been trying to convince him that the two religions were very different and now he was telling me that we were the same. I was doing my best to point out the dissimilarities between our Scriptures, our God, our prophets and how we ought to live. The purpose of this writing is to explore Islam and Christianity, but with the underlying premise that words used by both are not the same. The premise is quite simple.
Words have meaning.
The words being written for the reader to peruse are really nothing more than vehicles for meaning. I am sure we can all agree that words have meaning. When we use a word, we do so because we have agreed between us that it has a specific meaning. We both agree that humans sin, that sin is bad because it is an act of rebellion against God. Let me illustrate with a somewhat crude analogy.