Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

 

While the Muslim and Christian views of God have some similarities.  They Most Certainly do not Worship the same God.

 

Because of crucial differences between the Christian and Muslim concepts of God, the two faiths cannot both be true.

 

The biblical God alone addresses and solves the problem of sin by giving His Son.

In addition, A vital difference between the Islamic and Christian views of God is the biblical concept of the Trinity. (This doctrine also is what distinguishes Christianity from all other World Religions and Cultic groups likes Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, New Ageism, Universalism and ECT).  In the Bible, God has revealed Himself as one God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. While each Person of the Trinity is fully God, God is not three gods but three in one.

The Trinity is essential to the Christian faith. Without the Trinity, there would be no incarnation of God’s Son in the Person of Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ, there would be no salvation from sin. Without salvation, sin would condemn all to an eternal hell.

The god of Islam did not have the following as his mission……..:

 

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (John 3:16-18)

 

 

Going Deeper.... (I am adding some additional comments from "Are all Religions ONE? by Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.  Professor at Denver Thelogical Seminary, Denver, CO.) 

 

"Islam claims to be a fulfillment of Christianity, yet it denies many essential Chrisitna teachings."

 

"In his passionate condemnation of idolatry, Muhammad, the prophet of allah, rejected the idea that Jesus, a human being, could in any sense be God."

 

"God can not possess contradictory attributes."  (This means that since the god of Islam and the God of Christianity can not be same, given both systems make claims of God that are contradictory in nature.)

 

"It follows that if we can be saved by works, (Islam), it is false to say we are saved by faith alone through the grace of God totally apart from works (Christianity).

 

"Are all religions one?  Given their contradictory claims and the nature of truth, they cannot all be one with the truth.  They offer vastly different views of spiritual reality in the flesh, a reality that welcomes all to partake of this grace."

 

"All religions are not one, but all people can find oneness at the foot of the Christ's cross."