Muslims are told that Allah does not love “those who do evil and that each person must earn his own salvation. One must love Allah so that Allah can love that person” (Caner). In Christianity, we are told in Scripture that God loved his people first, and that, being the loving God that he is, he sent his Son to die for our sins (as can be seen in Romans 5:8 and 1 Corinthians 15:3). -4). Due to the Islamic belief that one must earn one's salvation, this means that there is no security of salvation. Muslims must pray, fast, worship, donate their money and make a pilgrimage to Mecca. While doing good works can give a Muslim hope of being righteous enough for Heaven, these are not guaranteed and so we do not know them until Judgment Day, whereas for Christians our judgment came on the cross when Jesus died that we might have salvation through his selfless love for his people (he was in the world and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came among his own, and their own did not welcome him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God, John 1: 10-12"). It can be seen that there is a significant gap between the personal qualities of God in the two religions. In