If God and Allah are the same, was Jesus Allah's son?

Question

Following on from a previous question, "Do God and Allah like each other?", the unanimous answer was that they are one and the same.
Sorry, you've all got me confused - you'll have to put me straight on this one.

The first two answers reveal a different pattern than "they are the same!".

I've just gotta say - what happened to the the unanimous agreement on the identity of God and Allah? You guys are cracking me up. Someone tell me who's uneducated here.

OK, I get it - Allah is God according to Muslims, and God is God according to Christians. But if Christians are so convinced that Jesus was His son, and The Bible is based upon this premise, then it seems to me that Allah and God are most definitely NOT the same deity.

Answer 1

Good question. I don't know but i will be reading the answers.

Answer 2

What is God ? Something that being praised and worshipped by human being. Allah is an Arabic term for god and it is exclusively used for the God that being worshipped by Muslims.

To make it clear, there is 2 kind of worshipping God, either monoteisme or polyteisme. Monoteisme is when people worship only One god and polyteisme is when people worship more than a single God ;god/goddess

In Islam, there is No single creature in this world could be same as Allah. If we could see, could describe, could touch or even see His face, we're judging that He's same to other creature. The fact for us, there'll be ONE god for us, that is Allah. He's not like us, he never married and never being born or die. That's why we didn't support the trinity concept of Christian.

Jesus (Isa) is not the Son of Allah, he's the son of Marie (Maryam), he's born without a father, that is the faith that Allah gave to Marie & Jesus. Not to make both of their lives become more difficult but, to test other people on their beliefs in Allah. Where Allah can do anything as He wish and no one could stop Him.

Answer 3

Sorry apparently your answerer's were Muslims or not familiar with who the Muslim God is they are entirely not the same. The Muslims will claim they are the same and that the teachings of Jewish and Christians are corrupt as if that makes any sense.The Muslim religion has taken the names of Prophets and called the teachings of said prophets corrupted.Jesus is simply a good teacher they do not accept the deity of Christ. They use the names of Abraham and others from the scripture they call corrupt. Allah of the Muslims does not have a son. Allah can simply forgive sin without atonement. God can not. Abraham believed in the atonement and was prepared to sacrifice Issac but told Issac that the lord would provide himself a lamb. Jesus taught that the sons of Abraham could be brought forth by God fro a rock and that if they had known the father they would know the son and that Abraham knew him and rejoiced to see his day. and that before Abraham was I am.Clearly theirs is a different Abraham and a different Jesus and a different God. the word Allah is indeed Arabic for god but the Muslim god Allah is not the Christian God. Understand while Christ may have used the Arabic word that means God Allah he could not have possibly prayed to the Muslim God Allah as this god did not exist until after Muhammed which was 600 years after Christ had left this world. There were no Muslims when Christ was alive and their God is not our God the arguement is ridiculous.

Answer 4

I beg to differ, but EVERYONE in that area at that time spoke Greek, it was required because the Greeks had occupied the lands. Romans had to speak Greek to the Hebrews and Behouins (there were no Muslims back in JEsus day, it hasn't been invented yet).

Every child in school learned to speak Greek.

Aramatic wasn't used. It's a modern language, as is the Greek that is spoken today. These were ANCIENT languages, which is why there are so many different tranlations, because NO ONE truly knows what the words mean anymore!

Back then in what is now England, ENGLISH was unheard of.

The English spoken today in the UK didn't come about until around 1800.

ALL languages have evolved, dropping old items and coining new ones.

As an example, there is NO mexican word or phrase for turn on the A/C power, like there is in Spain's Spanish. The phrase is "put another log on the fire" (and this is subjet to other interpretations, but mine comes from a computer company that had to write those manuals) for turniing on the power to your TV set or computer in a Mexican instruction manual.

But they know what that phrase means!

Answer 5

There is only one Supreme Being and each religion is using their own name for Him. The Supreme Being is a single entity and each religion calls Him a different name: God, Allah, Yahweh. The difference comes in the stories that each religion tells about Him.

If you believe there is one Supreme Being then you have to accept that other religions are talking about your God too. So as a Christian, I believe that Jesus was the son of God, the son of Yahweh, the son of Allah. Muslims will disagree with me, which is fine. I expect them to follow their own religion.

Regardless of what religion you are, the question here is about people's faiths and beliefs and not about facts, which we can't prove.

Answer 6

Well, you can look at it this way too. Jews do not believe that Jesus (saws) was God's son, nor do they believe he was a Prophet. Does that mean that the Jews do not worship the same God as Christians? Of course not! Each Abrahamic religion (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) worship the same God, have most of the same values and principles, and have very similar laws. Judaism says that there is one God, and no other shall be worshipped, Christianity says there is only one God, and no other shall be worshipped, and Islam says there is only one God, and no other shall be worshipped. Christianity stemmed from Judaism and Islam stemmed from them both. Therefore it makes sense that all three would have so much in common.

Now back to the issue you brought up; I can certainly see your point as I was once Christian myself. This is a major difference between Christianity and the other two religions. Christians believe Jesus (saws) was God's son, or in some cases God Himself, whereas in Islam we believe that Jesus (saws) was only a Prophet, without divinity. Yes, his birth was miraculous, yes he performed miracles by the will of God, yes he was one of the greatest of the prophets. He was not part of God or God's son in Islam as we believe that God is One, He is beyond the need for rest, He does not beget, nor was He begotten, and only He deserves worship. No other entity, be it human, semi-human, or non-human altogether deserves worship. Jesus never called himself the son of God and he never claimed to be God, and if he were to see how people worship him before they worship God these days, he'd be pretty darn upset in my opinion! This is what we believe in Islam. It is not as an insult to Jesus, it does not invalidate him or his teachings, it just enhances the belief that none deserve worship other than God. In Islam, we have a testimony of faith in which we recite if we convert to Islam, and which we recite during our prayers. It is called the Shahadah, and it says translated "There is no god but God, and Muhammad was His Messenger." Do you know why we say Muhammad was His messenger? It is a way to keep in mind that Prophets are not to be worshipped as they were only man. It keeps us from turning the Prophet Muhammad (saws) into God's son or part of God Himself, which we would consider blasphemy.
You may not share the same views, and you have that right to. But it's unfair to come to us and say that this is who we worship, not this. Especially without the knowledge behind who we worship. I don't think you are doing this, but there are those that do, as if they can tap into my mind while I am praying and insist that I am bowing down in worship to a stone idol rather than the Creator and Sustainor of all that exists, lol!

Good luck and I hope with all my rambling you understand what I am trying to say, lol! If not, just lemme know and I'll try to explain more.

Answer 7

God, Allah & Yahweh are the same.

Christians believe Jesus was the son of God.
Jews think he was nobody special.
Muslims think Jesus was a prophet but not the son of God.

Answer 8

They can be the same, but only linguistically speaking. Allah according to the Muslims had no son, so he can't be the God Christians worship. The story ends here.

Answer 9

Yaweh and Allah are the same, though the Muslim Allah has supposedly talked through Muhammed more than the Jewish believe Yaweh to have done, and has supposedly disregarded his promises to the people of Israel in favour of a more general policy of discipleship. The God that Jesus refers to as "father" may refer to the same entity, but he demonstrates a different understanding of what it is in comparison to either belief system.

Answer 10

Allah and God are literally the same entity/supreme being, with the only real difference being exactitude of meaning and the different language being used.

When it comes to Christ as the son of God, you need to understand that there are many RADICALLY DIFFERENT religious lines of thought here!! (Allah didn't nessicarily have a literal son, only muhammad as his one true prophet.)

Most Muslim worshipers believe that Jesus was a good man (a good teacher, just as many christians and jew believe that Muhammad was a good teacher, but was certainly NOT the only literal prophet that had walked the earth), but by no means is the son of god.
Where as most Christians believe that Christ is the divine, literal son of God. (A lot also tend to believe that all of mankind are children of God, making everyone who has lived on the earth a literaly spirit child of God.) Though even here the exact role of Christ is greatly varied between many Christains. (For example, i'm mormon. I view Jesus Christ not only as my lord and savior, but as an asstant creator, redeemer, and an advocate amoungst other things as well.)
Jews tend to believe that although Jesus was a great teacher, he was/is by no means their savior.

As you can see, I think it's up to you to evaluate how you feel about it... i would suggest further investigation of how a lot of the differect sects view this and come up with an opinion that you feel strongly about.

Personally, I also believe that Jesus, as a member of the God head, was choosen in the pre-existance to be the reedemer of this world. And as such would be born as prophetized to testify of his nobel birthright.

and to address your follow up question... I certainly hope Allah/God likes himself, I would hate to believe in a God with low self esteem! :)

Answer 11

Hi Musicol,

By asking this question you have highlighted the one main difference between Islam and Christianity. Very perceptive!

It is right that God and Allah are the same, they are just different languages..for example in French the equivalent would be Dieu. Christians born in the middle east refer to their God as Allah.

But, here you make the point about Jesus. The Christians believe that Jesus is a son of God. This differs with Islam, however, because muslims believe that this would make Jesus a God or god-like aswell, this goes against the muslim faith of there only being ONE God...

Muslims have great respect for Jesus, he is seen as one of the greatest prophets who indeed could perform miracles. The prophet mohamad is esteemed just as highly, but both are considered to be 'man' not godly at all...

I thought u might be interested to know that Islam too believes that Jesus will return...

(peace be upon them both)

I hope this helps

And well done for being so perceptive

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In response to your last comment, Islam is viewd by muslims to be a progression of the jewish faith and christianity..islam feels that christians have misconcieved the idea that Jesus is a God, that is why Allah and God are still the same thing- it is a disagreement between the notion of Jesus as a prophet or a messiah- NOT a dispute about the nature of God....