Why to Christians seem to think that their God ( not Jesus ) is different than the Judaic or Islamic God?

Question

They are all one in the same. They are all Abrahamic.
The bible and Qu'ran were written roughly about the same time.

Allah , God, Jehovah, they are all just names of the same God in different languages as even Christians say Allah in the Arabic speaking lands.

The problem is you base the truth of another religion based on your belief in yours.

Because you believe in Jesus and the other two do not, at least in the way you do, they therefore are wrong in your eyes.

Answer 1

Some self-described Christians pretend that the pre-human Jesus is the "God" or "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament".

This is obviously a fundamentally different theology than what the bible actually teaches. The fact is that there are several references to Jesus in the so-called "Old Testament" which indicate that he is distinct from the "God" or "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament". It is not enough to simply assert that a doctrine is true, and so Jehovah's Witnesses reason from the Scriptures on the matter...


It seems rather obvious that the apostle Luke at Acts 4:25-27 quotes from Psalms 2:1,2. Although these passages are part of the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures respectively, BOTH passages make it plain that there is an "anointed one" who is distinct from God. The Psalm plains calls that God by the name "Jehovah" (explicitly using the Tetragrammaton) and Acts plainly calls the anointed one by the name "Jesus".

(Psalm 2:1,2) [David wrote] Why have the nations been in tumult and the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? 2 The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one

(Acts 4:24-27) [Peter, John, and fellow Christians] with one accord raised their voices to God and said: “Sovereign Lord, you are the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, 25 and who through holy spirit said by the mouth of our forefather David, your servant, ‘Why did nations become tumultuous and peoples meditate upon empty things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one.’ 27 Even so, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with men of nations and with peoples of Israel were in actuality gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus


Similarly, the apostle Paul at 1 Cor 2:16 and Rom 11:33,34 paraphrases Isaiah 40:13. Note that Isaiah explicitly uses the name "Jehovah" (the Hebrew Tetragrammaton), and 1 Corinthians plainly CONTRASTS the mind of Jehovah with the mind of Christ Jesus.

(1 Corinthians 2:16) For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.

(Romans 11:33-34) O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments are and past tracing out his ways are! 34 For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”

(Isaiah 40:13) Who has taken the proportions of the spirit of Jehovah, and who as his man of counsel can make him know anything?

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Answer 2

No, the Bible and the Qur'an were NOT written at the same time, or around the same time. The Qur'an was written roughly six hundred years after the New Testament was completed, and about a thousand years after the Old Testament was completed.

There are also huge differences between the Islam concept of God, and the Judeo-Christian concept of God.

Two examples:
1. In Islam, God CANNOT have a son. How can anyone limit God that way? He's GOD, He makes the rules! If He wants to impregnate a virgin so that she gives birth to His Son, then He CAN do so!
2. Muslims believe that the Bible WAS God's word, but it's been corrupted. However, if it IS or was God's word, shouldn't God have had the power to keep it from being corrupted? Why would He have had to completely change what was written in the Bible? Why does the Qur'an contradict the Bible on almost EVERYTHING?

I've read both the Bible and the Qur'an. There are HUGE differences.

Christianity is closer to Judaism than any other religion, but it's quite a bit different from that as well.

Answer 3

Most Christians do in fact believe their God is the God of the Old Testament/ Torah and hence the Jews, only having undergone somewhat of a transformation from wrathful genocidal Lord of Hosts, to the benevolent father figure we find in the New Testament.
When it comes to Islam, the Qur'an clearly states that Allah is the God of the Old testament. Aside from western ignorance of Islam, many fundamentalist Christians reject this fact on the baseless assertion that Allah was an ancient pagan "Moon God" worshiped by the Arabs before the time of Mohammed.

Answer 4

Christians do believe in the same God as the Jews; the Koran was written 800 years after the New Testament.

Christians do not believe the Allah of the Moslems is the same god as Jehovah because Allah has different requirements and attributes from Jehovah.

Answer 5

You are generalising about Christians. If you said some Christians seem ... then you have a useful question.

I don't believe they are different Gods but there are differences in the way we see God both within Christianity and between Christianity and Judaism and Islam. This is not surprising given that the God idea is bigger than the capacity of a single brain to comprehend.

The Qu'ran was transmitted orally through Mohammed some centuries after the Bible was first written down but I don't thhink this is a factor.

Answer 6

Well, to some extent you're right. However, the big difference between Christianity and other Abrahamic religions is Jesus. When Jesus proclaimed that He was the God of Abraham, only the Christians believed Him. Thus, our concept of who and what the God of Abraham are very different. But the actual being is the same, you're right.

Answer 7

The Islamic god isn't a similar because of the fact the Jewish God. Jews and Christians worship Yahweh. the classic texts weren't written in Arabic or Latin. The Scriptures have been written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. 'God' is a be conscious that describes what he's. His call is i'm

Answer 8

Yahweh is the true God. Allah means God too, but the Islamic God is different than the true God. Look at the differences in the Bible and Quran and it wont take long to see they are two different entities. Mohammed came 600 years after Jesus. And Mohammad's words can only be considered valid if they were self-validating. And they are not.

Answer 9

I see we have the standard collection of ignoramusses on the board.(With some notable exceptions) .

Old BIBLIOPH first avers that no living person has seen Allah and then inanely avers that we have seen God in the flesh and His name is Jesus.

Boy what an ignoramus but typical of so many Christians that take Christ's existence as a FACT when in FACT there is NO proof whatsoever that Christ even existed .There is ANECDOTAL information and heresay information all wrapped up in "I hope and need to believe He existed" but NO ACTUAL PROOF.


http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/marshall_gauvin/did_jesus_really_live.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article784417.ece

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/marshall_gauvin/did_jesus_really_live.html

Then we have LOLLIPOP telling us in a derogatory sense that Islam originated halfway around the world.I wonder where the hell she thinks Christianity was born in Detroit ??

Then she spews on about it is a lack of education and ignorance that leads "them: to the assumption...

It would appear that LOLLIPOP is in that un-educated/ignorant group she referred to.


INSTITUTIONALIZED religion is and always has been but a vehicle for a few to use and abuse faith through lies ,fear mongering especially fear of death, in their manipulation of others to accept THEIR AGENDAS which of course as all intitutionalized religions attest to, are POWER AND GREED and all the other WORDLY WANTS/DESIRES.

"MY GOD IS BETTER THAN YOUR GOD " and all the horrid abominations that have stemmed from this stance from genocides to crimes against humanity, is but an absolute testimony to why INSTITUTIONAL RELIGIONS should be banned period .Not personal religious faith of course which should be celebrated.

Thinking one is better than another is sadly a very "normal " attitude of most in the world be they religious or not .

Using sports as an analogy,rooting for Christian God over the Muslim GOD over the Hindu God ,over the Judaic God is effectively no different then rooting for the Mets over the Red Soxs etc except the consequences are substantially more dire.

Answer 10

Yes, you are Right!! "They are all Abrahamic"
But what coming after is Islam and it is for all humanity,
to erase what came before,
Allah is same in all languages and the last heavenly religion sent to humanity is Islam for sure not to keep the ones sent before.
if it is why Allah send a new one.