2007-10-21 08:53:24 · 35 answers · asked by robodcr 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the reason i ask is that i heard on the radio that a muslim group had written a report saying there should be closer ties between the two faiths because they are praying to the same god?
2007-10-21 09:16:56 · update #1
Yes the do. Muslims though take Jesus to be a special prophet not a divine entity!
2007-10-21 08:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
No! I am very familiar with the old and New testament, and have read through the Koran and some of the Hadiths.
Allah is a derivative of the leader of the pagan arabic pantheon. His depiction by Muhammed is spiteful, inconsistent and demented. He seems to have spent an inordinate amount of time worrying about Muhammad's personal issues, like his many wives henpecking him when they disapproved of a new addition to his harem.
Allah wants total, blind obedience, and threatens painful punishment if you don't comply. Nowhere in the Koran does it imply that Allah loves mankind or seeks to redeem mankind.
Some tenuous parallels can be drawn between the God of Moses and Allah, but where the relationship between the God of Moses and man matured, Allah seems to have backslid into dementia.
The God of the Jews and Christians, on the other hand, has cast himself as a father figure, guiding humanity to maturity, sometimes chastising, sometimes letting us make our own mistakes and paying the price for them. He loves us, but loves us enought o let us make our own decisions.
If the Author of the Universe, the creator of all things, the omniscient being is Allah, then I'll gladly choose hell, rather than spend a single moment in the presence of a being so demented, inconsistent and perverse.
2007-10-23 02:32:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, as some Muslims have already pointed out in their answers, Christians believe that Jesus is God and Muslims do not. Both Muslims and Christians worship one God, but this does not mean that they worship the same one.
I hope that Christians and Muslems can learn to be more tolerant and respectful of each others beliefs. Some of the traffic on this list is very disrespectful. At the same time it helps to be open to our critics. You never know, the 'others' might have a good point!
2007-10-21 10:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only difference is that the christians have added Jesus to God and the muslims haven`t.
The God of Abraham is the God of the muslims and the jews, and is the basis of the christian religion. Jesus told the christians to pray to the Father God in heaven. He never said to pray to himself.
Conclusion:-Jews Muslims and Christians all have the same God.
2007-10-21 11:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by Terry M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a peak at them both will clearly show that it is not possible as they are both contradictory in many ways. It is most clearly revealed in the relationship between God and man and how man is right with God. There is only 2 possibilities. Either one is right and the other wrong, or both are wrong, but beyond doubt it is not possible that they both can be right.
2007-10-21 09:04:05 · answer #5 · answered by beek 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, the difference is that the Christians believed that Jesus was the God,father, son, holy ghost, who begets and begotten. The Muslims believed that Jesus, may peace be upon him, was only a prophet of God, like all other prophets that came before him, and the last prophet of all was prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of God be upon them all. It is stated in the Quran, God explained "Say, He is God, the One and Only. God, the absolute One. He begets not nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. They are supposed to be believing in the same God with Adam as the first man and prophet in this world but only thing was the different understandings.
2007-10-21 09:01:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, Allah is not the God of the Holy Bible, not at all!! It started off that they were the same, all descendants of Muslim, Jew and Christians stemming from Abraham, but Mohammad is responsible for changing all that with his Quran. Allah in the Quran is not the God of the Holy Bible, and one man wrote a book to replace the Holy Bible and the book within it, therefore, he also worshiped someone else, that someone else is Allah of the Quran, now god to the Muslim belief.
2007-10-21 09:00:30 · answer #7 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, God is one and only.
But God does not like to be worshiped as partner.
2007-10-21 09:11:46 · answer #8 · answered by peace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Muslims think that they can work their way to heaven, by fasting, praying five times a day, etc. They say that Jesus did not die on the cross. In this they are like all other religions that try to get to heaven by doing things. Except Christianity.
Christians say that even one sin prevents us from going to heaven, and there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. The only hope is to have faith in Jesus who died in our place, so that we are accounted as having his perfect righteousness, because he did not sin even once.
To have faith means to devote one's whole life to him, and many, many people find that too much. As Jesus said, "Many are called, but few are 'chosen'."
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2007-10-21 09:49:45 · answer #9 · answered by miller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Each worships the God as created in their beliefs. God is truly Limitless and encompasses all beliefs.
2007-10-21 09:43:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The only true God is the Jewish or Christian one. Arabs like all the other races of men that are gentiles must worship the true God also.
2007-10-21 09:13:25 · answer #11 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋