Understanding of God?

Question

What are some similitaries of the understanding of God with Islam, Christianity, and Judaism? And what are the differences? I am curious to know. If they all believe in "One" god, why are they so different?

Answer 1

the main difference coming from a christian perspective is Jesus.
The Jews and Islam think he was just a prophet.

Christians view him as the Christ who was God's son, came to this earth to die for our sins, rose again, escaped death/sin and those who believe on him shall be in heaven one day=saved.
confused yet?

The history of Islam come from Ishmael who was one of Abraham's sons. Abraham had 2 sons at least. All 3 religions are from Abraham and believe he was a prophet of God. But the Jews and Christians believe he almost sacrificed his son Isaac but Islam believes it was Ishmael. So the descendants of Islam are truly from Ishmael-this is true. The dead sea scrolls show Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac. Years before Mohammad had his vision from the angel Gabriel.
Islam believes the bible was changed (even though dead sea scrolls show otherwise and many other ancient documents). They believe what is written in the Koran to be truth. The Jews and Christians believe in the bible, Jews old test only, Christians old and new testaments.

Answer 2

The one true God is the same today as he ever was The God of Abraham and Moses is the same. People sometimes choose not to follow God and the Muslims have chosen the words of a false prophet and do not believe in the word of God. The similarities between Judaism and Christianity are total agreement up ot the point of Christ and they did not accept him.The Christians believe that Christ was God with us who atoned for the sins of those who accept him. Muhammed created a new religion that disagreed with the previous word of God and rewrote scripture he used the names of the Prophets and Jesus to give credibility to his religion and the Qu'ran teachs that that the Torah and Gospel is the true word of God. However the Qu'ran taught differn't therefore Muslims today must call these scriptures corrupt as thay are not in agreement with the Qu'ran.

Answer 3

Judaism and Christianity worship and pray to the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The difference is that Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He fulfilled the prophesies of the Old Testament.

Answer 4

Christians and Jews believe in Jehovah. Islam believes in Allah.The God of the Christians and Jews is the Most High God who is a loving Father and to the Christians who sent His son Jesus to die for our sins so that we could be reconciled with Him. From what I know about Allah and the Koran, Islam teaches to kill Christians and Jews who will not convert to Islam. They worship a god who condones violence and murder. It is not the same God of the Christians and Jews. Jesus taught his followers to love others as themselves. That love would be an identifying mark of all true Christians. The Old Testament also speaks of the Lords love. Psalm 136:1-26, Isaiah 54:30. No, this is not the same God of the Islam. Jesus himself being a Jew even healed people of other religions and gentiles. He did not instruct us to convert them or kill them. He told us to take the good news of the Kingdom to them so that they could take advantage of the salvation of God. He also fulfilled the prophesy of being a light to the gentiles.

Answer 5

Christians and practicing Jews worrship or "follow" the One True God, The Creator of this universe. The God of Abraham...The Jews do so incorectly, but still they know who God is. And The Nation of Israel are God's chosen people....... The one True God has nothing to do with islam.

Answer 6

All are monotheistic. The difference is that (orthodox)Christianity believes in One God existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; each eternally pre-existent and equal in wisdom, power and authority and existing in absolute and perfect harmony. "Hear O Israel, the LORD (YHWH = sacred name for God in the Torah), the LORD is ONE (Hebrew word is echad = a plurality of unity). God is typically referred to as Elohim, the more generic form for the word God, which is the plural form of the word. (singular is El).
"In the beginning God (Elohim=plural) created (verb form is in the singular) the heavens and the earth" So in the first verse of the Bible, we see both plurality and unity in the Godhead. (note also the frequent "let us..." in the creation account)

Answer 7

you are right in stating that all 3 schools of thought believe and confess one God.( all 3 agree on this point)

for the Muslim: God is Allah and his prophet was Mohammed
for the Jews: God is Jawee
for the Christian:God is Jesus

technically the Jews and Christians worship the same God-however the Jews(Christians believe) did not recognize him when he visited our planet 2000 years ago.

Answer 8

well in the bible abraham had two sons ishamel and isaac's bloodline went on to carry on judaism while ishmaels' went on to create islam and jesus christ came later in the bible. Some people dont agree with certain steps and procedures that are carried out in the religions and they go to another hoping to find that fulfillment the desire.

Answer 9

Similarities: Monotheism and they all started with Abraham.

Differences: It has to do with revelation (the concept, not the "Book of")

Either the OT is true, the OT and NT together are true, or the Koran is true.

There can be no middle ground

Answer 10

Because we all want to believe God said what he did in the way we want to believe. In other words all religions that claim to believe in God have their own belief in what he said and how He meant what he said.