Essay 2 Outline and Purpose

Similarities between Christianity and Islam:

1) Important religious people/figures

• beliefs about God
• Abraham
• Jesus
• angels
• saints & awliya ("friends of God")

2) Texts

• Stories from Bible and Qur'an
• Creeds
• Old/New Testament

3) After-life

• Heaven
• Hell
• eternal

The purpose of my second essay is to inform readers about the similarities between Christianity and Islam.  Many people recognize the differences between the two but are unaware of how similar they actually are.  I think the topic will be interesting to many individuals, resulting in a diverse group of readers as the audience.