Law #3

When it comes to Islam and Christianity, there are a few similarities. But when it comes to law, they differ in their approach. Both worldviews hold to a monotheistic approach to God, but while Christianity believes that God can be known, Islam believes that Allah is unknowable and all we have is the laws he has given us, through his prophet Muhammed. Shari'a law is derived from the Qur'ran as well as several other different sources. The word Shari'a literally means "the path to the watering hole". This means that it is the path that one should follow to paradise. There has been a bit of controversy lately as of the means of which Shari'a law is carried out. For example, according to one of the parts of Shari'a law, a man may divorce his wife but a wife may not divorce her husband. Islamic law does not view people as equal and therefore holds to the idea of Rex Lex, where the king, or ruler, in this case religious, is over the law.

In contrast to Shari'a law, the Christian approach to law is natural law also referred to as Divine law. In John 14:6, Jesus says "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." God's law given through first the 10 commandments, secondly through his word, and finally through his Son, is what is true and finite. When God says "Do not murder", this is not some figure of speech to be taken a different way. This is strict truth that if not followed, breaks God's law.