Do Muslims and Christians believe in the same 'one God'?

Question

The claim is easily the height of absurdity.

Many Christians will accept the premise out of some combo of wishful thinking and cowardice while muslims will offer the insanity like a hunter baiting his hook.

If being Christian or Muslim meant nothing more than believing in one God, then, and only then could it be said that they believed in the same one God.

Now, if you've ever read the bible and quran then you know that there are hundreds of pages of totally different versions of this schitzo God. Differences so profound that total hatred and war directly results from it.

So, if this is the 'same God' then he is one sick SOB. Of course, its muslims who believe that God kept testing out new religions until he finally got it right with Islam, but many pathetic Christians accept this absurdity with the infamous expression 'well at least they believe in one god'...as if believing in some polar opposite bloodthirsty satangod was better than rejecting all of it.

Answer 1

I'm guessing that we won't be dating anytime soon.

Answer 2

Actually yes, Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same god. Example: The Muslim name of god is Allah, the Jewish title for god is (loosely) Eloah, and the Christians ripped off the Jewish god. As you can see, the etymological difference is very slight, and differs only because of small differences between the Hebrew and Arabic languages. Regardless of the books written about them, through etymology one can see that they are meant to be the same god, even if they don't all follow their god in the same way.

As for the differences in the holy books that they each claim to be inspired by this god, simply by comparing Judaism and Christianity (which we KNOW sprang from Judaism) you can see MAJOR fundamental differences in the practices whereby they worship their god. This does not mean the christians are worshiping a different god, only that they have modified their practices regarding the worship of their god from the more traditional practices of the Jews. The reason for these differences is purely cultural.

Answer 3

Christians and Muslims believe in the same God, the one God

Along the path marked out by Abraham in his submission to the divine will, we find his descendant, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, who is also devoutly invoked by Muslims, especially in popular piety.

2. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. Today I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: "We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection" (Insegnamenti, VIII/2, [1985], p. 497). The patrimony of revealed texts in the Bible speaks unanimously of the oneness of God. Jesus himself reaffirms it, making Israel's profession his own: "The Lord our God, the Lord is one" (Mk 12:29; cf. Dt 6:4-5). This oneness is also affirmed in the words of praise that spring from the heart of the Apostle Paul: "To the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen'"(1 Tm 1:17).

We know that in the light of the full Revelation in Christ, this mysterious oneness cannot be reduced to a numerical unity. The Christian mystery leads us to contemplate in God's substantial unity the persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: each possesses the divine substance whole and indivisible, but each is distinct from the other by virtue of their reciprocal relations.

3. Their relations in no way compromise the oneness of God, as the Fourth Lateran Council explains (1215): "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature.... It does not generate, is not begotten and does not proceed" (DS 804). The Christian doctrine on the Trinity, confirmed by the Councils, explicitly rejects any form of "tritheism" or "polytheism". In this sense, i.e., with reference to the one divine substance, there is significant correspondence between Christianity and Islam.

However, this correspondence must not let us forget the difference between the two religions. We know that the unity of God is expressed in the mystery of the three divine Persons. Indeed, since he is Love (cf. 1 Jn 4:8), God has always been a Father who gives his whole self in begetting the Son, and both are united in a communion of love which is the Holy Spirit. This distinction and compenetration (perichoresis) of the three divine Persons is not something added to their unity but is its most profound and characteristic expression

Answer 4

It is the same One God: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Moses, as mentioned in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, and in the Holy Koran. It is, interestingly, also the same God referenced in the Torah, the religious scripture of the Jews (which is basically the Old Testament).

They all worship the God of Abraham, the One God, although they have different names for that God. Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, etc. are all different names for the same deity.

There are other reasons for these religions branching off, but at the core of all of them is Judaism. Jesus himself was a Jew, the King of the Jews, and Mohammed was born a Jew. Both Christianity and Islam are based on the spritual foundations laid down by Judaism.

Answer 5

No we don't. We have self assurance in an identical throne, yet no longer an identical God that sits upon the throne. Muslims have self assurance in a violent God who would not have a private relationship together with his toddlers. Christians have self assurance in an all-forgiving, all loving God who needs greater suitable than something to comprehend his toddlers in my view and to have the means to talk to them.

Answer 6

I view Jews and Christians as believing the same God. The Muslims God is given a name which does not match YHWH. He is fundamentally different.

The Quran contradicts the Torah and Bible on many different levels.

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Answer 7

I know the old story that Christianity and Islam both believe or read the scriptures of Moses... But here is an answer to your query..

Is the Muslim God and the Christian God the same? Some say Christianity and Islam are 'sister' religions. But the answer is no, they are not the same gods, nor are they 'sister' religions. Comparing the nature, character, the instructions and teachings of each, and usually the practices of their believers, we can quickly see the differences.

* Christianity is based on God sending His Son, Jesus, to atone for the sins of mankind (John 3:16-17).

* Jesus is part of the triune God, come in the flesh (Emmanuel means God with us) to earth for this purpose through His crucifixion and resurrection. (No other deity can claim this.)

* The Quran's Surah 17 111 says: "Praise be to Allah, who begets no son, and has no partner in (His) domain. . ."

* Surah 4 171 says: "O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor, say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of Allah and His Word. . ."

* The Bible also says that to obtain Salvation (from sin and eternal hell) that we can simply accept God's gift of mercy and grace for forgiveness through Jesus.

Romans 3:23: "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."

Romans 5:10: "For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."

Acts 4:12: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

* Whereas, the Quran states:

Surah 23 102, "Then those whose balance (of good deeds) is heavy -- they will attain salvation. . ."

The Bible tells us in Galatians 2:16 that it is not by works or any good deeds that we obtain Salvation. ". . .but by the faith of Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. . ."

Another important distinction is that throughout the Quran, the teachings are to destroy all others outside of Islam in the name of Allah. In comparison, the Christian God is a god of love. Jesus tells us in Luke 6:27-28: "But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you." In addition, the Muslims despise Jews, but the Christian Bible says that the Jews are the apple of God's eye and that whoever blesses her will be blessed and whoever curses her will be cursed. (Genesis 12:2-3)

These are fundamental distinctions! The Muslim god and the Christian God are not the same.

Answer 8

Christians, Jews and Muslims all worship the God of Abraham, nothing absurd about that.

(And this is not wishful thinking; it's a fact. Judaism inspired both religions, it's only natural that we would have some basics in common.)

Answer 9

Abraham is a figure in the Bible and Quran whom Jewish, Christian and Islamic believers regard as the founding patriarch of the Israelites and of the Nabataean people. In what is thus called Abrahamic religious tradition, Abraham is the spiritual father of many peoples.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are sometimes referred to as the "Abrahamic religions", because of the role Abraham plays in their holy books and beliefs.

As the father of Isaac and Ishmael, Abraham is ultimately the common ancestor of the Israelites and their neighbours. As the father of Ishmael, whose twelve sons became desert princes (most prominently, Nebaioth and Kedar), along with Midian, Sheba and other Arabian tribes (25:1-4), the Book of Genesis gives a portrait of Isaac's descendants as being surrounded by kindred peoples, who are also oftentimes enemies. This is because the clans practiced intermarriage. are in the descending scale, perhaps of purity of blood, or as of purity of relationship, or of connectedness to Sarah: Sarah, her servant, her husband's other wife. The Bible says of the Hebrew people: "Your father was a wandering Syrian". Yet to Abraham's face the Hittites said, "You are a great chief among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs." (Genesis 23:4 and 5)

Thus, all three religions worship the same god.

Answer 10

Muslims know it is the same God, after all Jesus (Issa) appears in the Koran, as does Moses, Noah ect. It is the christians who are usually mistaken thinking that they are completely different religions and a different God.

Answer 11

The Torah and the Old Testament are one and the same and the Jews and Arabs are cousins.
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