jesus is called the messiah in the quran. the main difference is that muslims don't believe in the holy trinity or that jesus is god. it's likely that the people before islam was founded where early christians outside of the catholic church who didn't take the apostles creed. the belief of the holy trinity and whether jesus was man or god came centuries after the first christians. but remember that jesus' desciples traveled in all directions, some west into europe, others south into africa, and others east into india and as far as china. while european christians wrote the apostles' creed to formalize their beliefs, not all christians around the globe got the memo because the vast distances prevented them from communicating with each other. so, while some early sects of christians went extinct, others evolved into the religions that we see today: catholism and all modern branches of christianity in europe, and islam in the africa and asia.
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