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Wait, following a prophet or God is wrong? So, we are supposed to ignore what God or prophets tell us and listen only to Jesus?

God and the messenger? Like how we're supposed to follow God and his messenger, Jesus? And how can you consider throwing people into pits of burning tar loving for committing this offense? It is exactly the same idea. You are saying that God doesn't love muslims if he will allow them to burn for worshiping him differently. And please, don't give me the "He loves him so he punishes them!" crap, that's just stupidity. I've heard it before. Oh, and according to the Old Testament, God DOES hate gays, sorcerers, tax collectors, those who eat shrimp or pork, and folks into bestiality. Hence his support of their murder.

And is God not choosing who does and doesn't get into heaven through Jesus? Isn't that pretty much a choice of God to leave the bar at Jesus and Jesus alone?

And as for the muslim idea of God "choosing" who to accept and who to reject, this is what is known as "Judgement"- Determining not by religious affiliation, but by acts. So Osama, for breaking the "Though shalt not kill" rule, will be judged badly even though he is a muslim. Edit- I don't know the exact value of repenting or what one could do to repent for such things. This is why I think it is just better to... say... Not kill people or spread genocide in the first place.

But it is by any sin that we fall short of the glory of God, and thus can not be with him. And the punishment for all and any sin, no matter how great or small, is eternal separation from God. Jesus died for this, and when he did, he also made every kind of meat that was unclean before clean. Keep in mind, what you were saying before about punishments were in the Old Testiment. Back then, the Jews were God's only chosen people, and to keep them "clean", such laws were rather in need. It is like with school and the rules and stuff, with how his children react to the rules. Also, there was no eternal forgivness of sins, so it was also to keep his people from sinning.

Salvation is now open to us like it was to them. And again, how cruel of God would he be to forgive people when they did not want to be forgiven, bring them into eternity when even if they lived a "good" life on Earth, they did not wish to know him? God can forgive misunderstanding, but again... Mt 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."
Mt 7:14 "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." If my God, THE God is a God that says anything goes, who made me with faults and will punish me so awefully if I live bad and then want and beg for forgivness... that is cruel and unjust, and I would rather live an easy life in sin and saying that anything goes. And as for the "old rules", if it was right then, it is right now. If it was pure then, it is pure now.

Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father who created all the lights in the heavens. He is always the same and never makes dark shadows by changing. (James 1:17)
Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8 )

Edit: Sorry about that mistake at the beginning. You see, I do not read the old testiment as often as the new testiment sweatdrop in addition, I was thinking about when they made sacrifices to the Lord.

In response to the original question:

I could see there being attempts made for a universal religion. However, I am not a fan of the idea, unless it was Christianity and everyone believed on their own faith, and not by law. But the concept of mixing all the major world religions would be blasphemy towards our God. And I doubt it would work for long. I heard at once that people can only live in groups of about 200 before different beleifs and ideas set in and there is disagreement.

As to the differences between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity:

They are different. Which is why they are different religions. Christianity originated from Judaism, yet we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, not just a prophet. Islam is drastically different, giving their god a different name, never mentioning a savior like Jesus, and giving different guidelines to get to heaven. Plus Judaism and Islam have set rules as to conduct, punishment, diet, and social standings. Christianity has none of that, making everyone equal in the eyes of God and simply asking that we believe in Jesus dying for us, and that God is the one true God, and then trying to live a Godly life (this excludes Catholicism who as far as I understand requires another person to talk to God for the common human. Sorry if I have gotten this wrong, that is what my knowledge is). There are a million differences, both small and large, in the religions that set them apart. Although Islam claims that they believe in the same God as us and that their beliefs are the same, I don't see how that is possible.

They didn't give God a new name, Allah is translated to God. Unless all those spanish christians worshiping some dude named "Deos" are worshiping a new God as well.

It's possible because you are uneducated abut islam and make up gaps where there are none.

Since when is world peace blasphemous? Since when is worshiping God as you understand Him a heresy? The only issue that would arise would come from idiots spouting ideas that THEIR prophet and ONLY their prophet offered true salvation, and that all the others were just poor, misunderstood failures of God doomed to an eternity of gnashing of teeth.

She didn't say that. She said mixing Christianity, Islam, Budhhism, and all the others together would be blasphemy. She didn't say anything about heresy, and our religion is the only way to God. I don't damn people to hell, I don't shove my religion down other people's throats, and people who do are stupid minorities who get all the media attention.

Next time you make an argument, don't put words in other people's mouths.