Similarities Between the Quran and the Bible

One might not believe there are many similarities between the Quran and the Bible, but there are actually tons of them! Both books recognize many of the same characters. One of the many examples is the story of Saul and Gideon being military leaders of Israel and of Saul being afraid to fight Goliath. Both books also recognize Jesus as being real but the Quran only believes he was a good man and does not believe him to be the savior. Both books also recount the same stories of creation. Both stories have a man being created by God out of dirt, woman being created out of man, both being told to eat from any tree except for the tree of knowledge, boht being ashamed after they eat the fruit from the tree. Another similar story is when Moses leaves some of the Hebrews who then leave Egypt worship worship a golden calf. Moses says, “Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity? They are from Israel! This calf – a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.” A verse in Hosea 8:5-6 contains the same content as Surah 20.97 where Hosea refers to the Jeroboam calf and the Qur’an refers to the earlier calf. Both feature a prophet speaking to the Samaritan/Samaria promising to destroy the calf. These are just some of the many similarities between the Bible and the Qur'an.