Do you think we all believe in the same God?

Question

Even though He goes by different names? Do we not all believe in good and love?

Thank you all for your thoughts and opinions. It's quite impossible to choose a best answer, because I feel quite a few are great.
I'm gonna have to leave it up to you.....

Answer 1

Most of us believe in the same God.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in the one true God of Abraham.

Some people who believe a differently are:
+ Atheists believe there is no God.
+ Polytheists believe in more than one god.
+ Agnostics believe it is impossible to know whether or not there is a God.
+ Satanists worship Satan as their god.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

yes.
God can be a HE.
God can be a SHE.
God can be any religion.
God can be any race.
God can be any ethnic.
God can have any name.
It is all one concept. Meaning the same thing. If you get a group of people with one cause for example world peace, there are many sects of people. But all those different people; they may be short tall black white red etc fat skinny
rich poor ,etc, but they are all there for one thing. That one thing being world peace.
My point is God has no discrimination towards anyone or anything as so long as they love him. God is love in the hearts of the believers. So, yes, we all believe in the 'same' God but in different ways thru spirituality, religion, faith.

Answer 3

The problem isn't God, or Allah, or Yahweh, or Jehovah. As you say, they are all just names for the same contrived Deity. The problems stem from all the other baggage that attaches itself to each religion, and to each sect within each religion. Few people can even agree on what's considered good and what's considered evil. ...and "love" is such a vague term, it practically begs to be fought over. Then there's a minority of people who are like me -- not solipsists, usually atheists -- who simply cannot force themselves to accept that their subjective (perceptual) experience is anything but a natural illusion created by our own living brains. The bitter truth is human beings cannot even agree on what's real and what's not. The superstitious beliefs of religion only serve to keep people from their common humanity. True peace and universal love will never be achieved by people who prefer to fill their heads with ancient superstition and bigotry, rather than learning to understand how objective reality actually operates.

Answer 4

Yes. No. If there is only one "God", then obviously what people name this god is irrelevant. But even among members of the same faith, this god can be unrecognizable to others. Is this the God of peace? Justice? Reconciliation? Vengeance? Power and authority? Humility and service? Or is this the god of underlying reality, a concept that transcends the notion of separateness and individuality? Who "God" is does not matter is much as what "God" is. That is what has such a profound effect on how people treat each other. People do believe in "good" and "love", but they all define and exemplify it very differently.

Answer 5

No.
"The great religions are talking at cross-purposes"
Professor Zaehner, once Oxford professor of eastern religions.
“To maintain that all religions are paths leading to the same goal, as is so frequently done today, is to maintain something that is not true "
He was clear as to why the idea of different faiths being only aspects of belief in the one same god was simply untenable.

There is the instructive example of Baha'i, where, attempting to produce a syncretic harmony of the faiths it wishes to draw together, doctrines and beliefs which are fundamental, crucial, to each have to be denied.

No, along with the name, (which matters little of itself) comes character, intent, proffered route and means of salvation, fate in the afterlife, if any... These variant beliefs do not depict one god.


Whether there is a god, or divine being or principle, and if so of what character and purpose, is a whole different question.

Answer 6

Hiya , Thats a great question.

The answers is a definite NO., and the Bible backs this up.

For instance if a person is striving after money to be rich , then that is his God.
If a person places an excessive and incorrect view of sex , then that could be his God.
Even people can be so devoted to movie ,music or sports stars that they in effect worship them.

People that follow religions that are part of Satan's world of false religion , then they , are following Satan , as their God.

Even though many claim to be worshiping the true
God , they prove what they follow by their actions.

What do they show is the primary thing in their life?.
Is it following something you can see with you eyes or a religion with false religious teachings , like "hellfire" , "trinity" or "the immortal soul",, , , , or are they doing what Christ commanded his followers to do , and preach that Gods kingdom ruled by his son Christ Jesus is near and to seperate onself from false worship and stand on Gods side.?

There are many Gods , but only one true GOOD God.- Jehovah

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Answer 7

I used to think that until I studied and now I know that not all "gods" believed in by different religions are the same. The god of Islam is not the God of the Bible, the gods of Hinduism is not the God of the Bible. J.W.'s don't believe in the deity of Christ, Mormon's have different beliefs on who Christ is. There are those who think that each individual human is his own god. For Christian's God is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus the Christ) and God the Holy Spirit - equally three and equally one. To believe in Christ as God and that He died on the cross willingly for our sins to be taken upon Him - that is Christianity: note the root word CHRIST-ianity.(CAPS for emphasis only.)
Since other religions do not believe Christ was/is God, they therefore they worship and believe in a different God.

So no, not all religions worship the same god.

Answer 8

I believe the Bible is the holy, inerrant word of God. The Old Testament and the New Testament were written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. As Christians, we accept the Old Testament to be a record and an example of what God allowed to happen among the Jewish people in antiquity. The New Testament records the birth, life, mission, death, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible predates the Quran and in it we read the admonition of the apostle Paul in Galations 1:8,9, "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."

We read in Deut. 4:2 the following,"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. " Therefore when Mohamed wrote the Quran 600 years after Christ's death, burial, and Resurrection he altered and changed the word of Almighty God. Mohamed was trying to unite the desert tribes and created Allah, the moon god of the pagans to the station of and a substitution for the one true God. Islam teaches violence against the infidels (us) while Jesus taught His followers to treat others with dignity, respect, and to love them. He was a man of peace. As such, judgment is of God and Him alone. Not by a group of religious fanatics whose sole goal in life is to force the conversion of others by force.

Jesus Christ is more than a prophet, He is the Savior of the world willing to take on mankind's sins and die for us. What has Allah done?

As far as Buddhism, Hinduism, and all others that don't worship the one true God , Yahweh of the Bible, are false religions even though they too teach love and peace

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Answer 9

Nominally that is the core of the Bahai Faith - that God manifests Himself in different ways to different cultures,and at different times,suited to their respective needs. Left to itself that would be a doctrine of immense potency and of course intrinsically attractive for a wide range of reasons. It would completely overthrow religious exclusivism,which is the basis for virtually all religious animosities. Unfortunately,the Bahai Faith espoused this very potent doctrine,then turned around and completely neutralized it by putting forth the claim that their own prophet-founder,Ba'hallah,is the sole valid manifestation of God for this age,rendering null all the others. This brought them right back to the starting point,namely religious exclusivism (the belief that only one religion can be true). So they had the potential to revolutionize religious thought - indeed,the very way we conceptualize faith - but threw it away just to become the latest addition to a very long list of exclusivist religions. Hence,they attracted immense attention from theologians and intellectuals during the late 19th and early 20th century,only to dwindle into a more or less static condition of relative obscurity. Today they are a very minor religion.

Answer 10

Sure,,there are many ways...sometimes strange ways....
sometimes funny ways....but we re all on the run..
its one world...its one thought...one Idea...all things are a part one..
like the word alone= all in one....meaning in contrary
that...if you get in you reach out all. Buddhist compare the 5 world religions with 5 blind men, touching an elephant
the one who touches a feet of the animal says: God is
round and very big...the one that touches the mouth says:
no, god is small and smooth...and so on...you understand?