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Dec 20, 2015 · Most mainstream Muslims would generally agree they worship the same God that Christians — or Jews — worship. Zeki Saritoprak, a professor of Islamic studies at John Carroll University...
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May 26, 2020 · Christians regularly ask whether the God of Islam is the God of Christianity. Should Muslims, like Jews, be counted as fellow believers? Or is Allah a different God, the creation of Muhammad and fundamentally unlike the God of the Bible?
- Idea Question: What Is Allah?
- Identity Question: Who Is Allah?
- Inverted Question: Does God Receive Muslim Worship?
A good place to start this investigation is with the Arabic word Allah. While Allahis the word Muslims use for God, Arabic-speaking Christians also use Allahin their Bible translations to refer to God.In Arabic, Allahis the word formed from the noun “god” (ilah) and the attached definite article (al). Thus, Allahcould be translated into English as ...
At first blush, the Qur’an includes multiple descriptions of God’s activities that evangelicals would affirm. Muslims believe that God is creator, ruler, revealer, judge, and that God forgives. Still, missiologist Colin Chapman warns against prematurely concluding that we’re talking about the same God, cautioning, “The issue between us is not wheth...
The central flaw in the question-as-posed is that it frames what should be a theocentric investigation as an anthropocentric discussion. We end up asking what humans think about their worship rather than what Godthinks of it. By inverting the question, we might more helpfully ask, “Does God accept the worship of both Muslims and Christians?” The bi...
The question becomes thornier in relation to Muslims, who are adamant that God is one, while Christians are adamant that God is one in three—to note just one remarkable difference between the two...
Nov 10, 2023 · Just as clearly, though, we cannot say that the God in whom Muslims profess to believe is theologically identical to the Christian God. For the most obvious example, their God is a “lonely God,” as Chesterton put it, whereas ours is a Trinity of persons.
Aug 2, 2024 · A common question raised in interfaith dialogue is whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In this excerpt from Catholic Answers Live, Karlo Broussard addresses this complex issue, explaining the Catholic Church’s position as outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 841. He discusses the concept of sufficient ...
Aug 22, 2016 · Do Muslims and Christians know the same God? Nabeel Qureshi: Christians worship Yahweh, the Trinity, whereas Muslims worship Allah, a monad. This is not an incidental difference; Islam makes every effort to condemn the Trinity as blasphemy (4.171).
