Mohammad said that Allah is the same god that the Israelites worship and most scholars agree that the Koran is the same account as the Old Testament, so doesn't it naturally follow that Allah = Christian God as well since Christianity is based off of Judaism? We are all worshiping the same god, right?
2007-09-20 03:40:12 · 68 answers · asked by ojsimpsonisblack 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it's the same God. And Muslims believe in Jesus and the virgin birth, as well. Jesus is one of the Prophets; Mohammed was just the last prophet.
2007-09-20 03:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by ♥≈Safi≈♥ ☼of the Atheati☼ 6 · 3⤊ 10⤋
The argument on whether a Master of the Universe exists or not started in prehistory and it's here to stay for a while. The next argument is whether one of the thousands of names that people from different cultures gave him throughout history is the right name for that divinity. Along with that argument are the fantastic descriptions and attributes that humans have imagined. Is he a spirit, a person, concrete, abstract, inside everything, outside reality, does he have the power to create and destroy, can he talk to us, can he violate the laws of the universe and make things appear and disappear, and so on.
It all boils down to what people believe (have faith in, were born into a faith, were taught to believe). None of the answers to these question will ever be resolved in the same way that we can resolve the answer to 578 x 642.
Objective reality gives an objective answer for everyone and the argument can be stopped. If a Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian take out thei calculators they will all get THE SAME answer (371,076) to the multiplication above. The belief in a god and whatever name he has is a belief, an arbitrary, subjective belief and the answer can only fit the arbitrary and contextual situation of the believer. Whimsical, arbitrary, subjective beliefs are meant to satisfy our ego. They are not REAL questions, so they do not have REAL answers.
Beliefs as only suppositions. If the truth cannot be discovered in nature, they create contradictions in thinking such as what is true for you doesn't have to be true for me, A can be A and not A at the same time, things can exist without evidence, and so on. Faith is the antithesis of logic. Faith applies to fantasy, logic to reality. Fantasy can be anything we wish; reality is the same for everyone, whether we admit it or not. Fundamentally, in reality, there are only Atheists. Most Atheists like to play mind games and invent another reality to believe in and call themselves religious, but as long as they are alive in this world, they live like anyone else, by the laws of nature. They do not walk on water, they pretend to talk to divine entities, they do not heal themselves or others by just wishing it, they do not have the power to violate the laws of physics, chemistry, or biology, therefore they cannot perform miracles.
2007-09-20 04:26:23 · answer #2 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we aren't, though that is a very common misconception. While they may say it is the same god, you have to look at the fundamental principles of the religions, and you will see that it is not the same. While there are many Arab Christians that will refer to the Christian God as Allah, it's a title, or name, rather than the same being, and not the same Allah that muslims worship.
2007-09-20 03:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Joshua B 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
All monotheist religions today stem from Judaism. There are Jews who in the beginning would not even pronounce the name of God for fear that they would be struck down in God's wrath for the disrespect. The Old Testament Writes God's name as YHWY and was mistranslated as Jehovah when the vowels for Lord (Adonai) were placed between the consonants by a Catholic monk. The consonants are most often translated as Yahweh today. Yahweh would represent what Christians call God the Father or more often just God and what Muslims call Allah. Of course, Christians complicate monotheism by their faith in the Trinity, where God the Father is that bearded spirit in the Sky, God the Holy Spirit is that weird ghostly God that gives you the grace to do whats right even when it's hard, and Jesus as God and God's son who was one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying to make His way home.
2007-09-20 03:53:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dr 8'lls 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Allah is not the same person as the Christian God but he is the same as God the Father. In Christianity we believe in something called the trinity. Where in there are three people in one God. God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. Its like saying three folds in a blanket, or three people in a power ranger robot. Anyways, Allah is God the father because God the father was the one who creates. He cant be God the son because muslims dont believe that God came down to earth to save us and definitely he Allah cant be God the Holy Spirit because Muslims dont believe in that. Basically, What i am trying to basically say is that Allah is the same as God the father so it worshipping Allah is worshipping God the father
2007-09-20 04:02:02 · answer #5 · answered by lingnienshin 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Muslim and Christian view of God have many similarities. Muslims and Christians agree that there is one God who is the Creator of everything in the universe. Both view God as sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, holy, just, and righteous. In these ways, Christians and Muslims worship the same God. However, there are also significant differences between Islam and Christianity’s view of God. While Allah (Allah is the Muslim and Arabic word for God) possesses the attributes of love, mercy, and grace, Allah does not demonstrate these attributes in the same manner as the biblical God acts.
The most important difference, though, between the Muslim and Christian view of God is the concept of the Trinity. Christians believe that God has revealed Himself as one God in three Persons: God the Father, the Son of God (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.
God’s Son became a human being, Jesus Christ, to take away the penalty and power of sin by dying on the cross. After rising from the dead, Jesus went back to heaven to be with His Father. He sent His Spirit to teach men the truth through His Word, the Bible. One day, Christ will return to judge the earth; those who have trusted in Him will go to heaven, but those who have rejected Him must be separated in hell from the holy God.
Therefore, the belief in the Trinity is essential to the Christian faith. Without the Trinity, there is no incarnation of God’s Son in the Person of Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ, there is no salvation for sin. Without salvation, sin condemns all to hell.
So, do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Yes and no. Perhaps a better question would be, "Do Christians and Muslims both have a correct understanding of who God is?" To this, the answer is definitely no. Because of crucial differences between the Christian and Muslim concepts of God, the two faiths cannot both be true.
Because the Bible provides the solution to sin, we believe that Christianity has the correct view of God. Becoming a human being, God’s Son died to pay for the sin of those who trust in Him. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Recommended Resource: Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross by Norm Geisler
2007-09-20 03:48:11 · answer #6 · answered by Freedom 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Allah is God in another language. The religion might be different. But if you ask different Christian group about how they interpret the Bible (there are many hateful episodes against non-believers or about enslaving people in the OT, too!!), then you will hear many different views.
So, it always depends on what kind of god the people create in their minds, not what name it has...
But we (the humans) are not all worshiping the same god, there are more beliefs than Islam or Christianity!
2007-09-20 04:01:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
each and every faith has the same concept of what God perspectives as ethical, even with some changes. The Jewish and Muslim perspectives are virtually same, yet i think of that the Christian God is distinctive because of the fact he's in 3 aspects.
2016-11-05 22:54:34 · answer #8 · answered by monsalvatge 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The God of the Bible is Jehovah. The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit ...One God. The Godhead of the Father and Son who share the same Holy Spirit. Thought, Word, Emotion...all powerful and all coincide and are created from the mind. That is sorta the same way the God of the Bible is. The Father, whom no man has seen except the Son has His throne in the Heavens and is the self existant all knowing One who through His Son, The Word, all things were made for Him, by Him and through Him by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Muslim faith extends as far as one God....Allah, being One Supreme being or entity who has sent prophets to make His nature known and also His power by devine display. However, for them Jesus was just another prophet that came before Mohammad and was a good guy and all but Jesus was killed. They don't believe that as God is One single entity that He could be killed so Jesus could not be the Messiah. So in a way...you could see that they are worshipping what they concieve as the God of the first 5 books..yet, remember..the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walked, talked, visited, shewed Himself and manifested Himself in a temple to dwell with the Israelites until the time of Ezekiel. Yet, Jesus say..."NO man has seen the Father"
John 6:46
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. (meaning Jesus)
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Who then was God in the Garden, talking with Noah, visiting Abraham and Sarah, speaking to Moses on Mt. Ararat, who was with the 3 in the fiery furnace, Daniel in the Lions den, who was it that Jacob struggled with in the desert and so on and so forth? It was the Son of God. Jesus Christ. United within us so there is a potiential for liberation in becoming the Host of God. The more we read His Word..the more our minds are filled with His Thoughts and Our hearts are filled with His Comfort. We then are able to fully trust Him and be set free as God then dwells in us and dwells with us...love in Christ, ~J~
2007-09-20 04:15:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but it is wrong to say "Isn't Allah the same PERSON as the Christian God". Allah is not a person, he is a creator and can not be human according to Islam.
Islam reveres the One and Only God, known as Allah (الله) in Arabic. The Islamic belief is that God is the "only creator and master of the universe". The main fundamental creed (shahadah) of Islam is "There is no god but (one) God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God". Muslims believe that Allah is the same deity as God of Christians and Jews. However, many Christians and Jews reject this muslims belief, believing that Allah, the god of the Qur'an, is not the same god as Yahweh, the God of the Bible. Many Christians point to the belief that Jesus is one of the Trinity or is divine, and hence contradicts muslim concept of God.
Allah is the personal name of God [1] used by Arabic speakers, irrespective of their religion. However, Arab Christians and Jews use Allah to mean nothing more than the word God. Consequently, the word is used in Arabic translations of Tanakh and the Gospels (the Old and New Testaments), as well as in Indonesian and old Turkish translations of the Bible. Arabic speakers of all faiths whether Jews, Christians or Muslims use the word "Allah" to mean "God".
2007-09-20 03:47:03 · answer #10 · answered by Mimi 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Muhammad said??? Muhammad was a delusional killing machine who had no connection with the Lord of Jews and Christians. You can pray to Allah, that is your perogative. But The Creator, the God of heaven and earth will not be the one who hears you. My question is, the muslims are trying to inject this belief into the mainstream, but they do not believe in the Trinity and that Jesus is God's Son, our Messiah, which we know to be so......So how can our God be the same as theirs when our core belefs are entirely opposite??............... Because they aren't the same.
2007-09-20 04:00:54 · answer #11 · answered by HeVn Bd 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋