Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Do Christians and Muslims Serve the Same God?

Anyone who has been reading my blog for any length of time knows that the Muslim god called Allah, IS NOT the same God of the Bible. 

Of course much of the liberal world and liberal "Christians" have a big desire to insist that they DO worship the same god...because they desperately want to pull together ALL RELIGIONS of the world by insisting there are many paths to heaven...and it matters not WHO you worship because "as long as you are spiritual"...it all works out in the end!!

Clearly, this is a lie from the pit of hell and directly contradicts what our Master clearly said, "..no man comes to the Father but through me."

Does God care what we call Him? Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? These are questions many Christians are asking these days, and for good reason.

For some time now, feminist theologians and a host of others have suggested that Christians should adopt new names for God. One denomination went so far as to affirm names like “Giver, Gift and Giving” in place of “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” to be used in worship. Feminist theologians have demanded that masculine pronouns and names for God be replaced with female or gender-neutral terms. But to change the name of God is to redefine the God we reference. Changing the name of God is no small matter.

Christians must keep this central principle from the Bible constantly in mind as we consider some of the most urgent questions we face in the world today. We must certainly have this principle in mind when we think about Islam.

Several years ago, a bishop in the Netherlands attracted controversy when he argued that Christians should call God “Allah” in order to lower theological tensions. He also argued that calling God “Allah” would be commonplace in Christian churches within a century and that this would lead to a synthesis of Islam and Christianity.

More recently, an Islamic court in Malaysia ruled that only Muslims can use the name “Allah” in print publications. “The usage of the word will cause confusion in the community,” the chief judge ruled. Oddly enough, Christians may well agree with this Islamic judge. To call God “Allah” is to invite confusion.

Muslims do not speak of God as their heavenly Father. In the Islamic faith, Allah is not only a different name for god; the deity it designates is far more impersonal than the God of the Bible. Father—the very name that Jesus gave us as the designated name for use in prayer—is a name that simply does not fit Allah as depicted in the Quran.

Furthermore, Muslims claim that Allah has no son. This represents a head-on collision between the God of the Bible and Allah. For as the Bible makes clear, the one and only true God is most perfectly revealed as the Father of the Son, Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of John, Jesus repeatedly teaches that no one has truly known the Father, except by the Son. In one of the most clarifying verses in the New Testament, Jesus declared Himself to be “the way, and the truth, and the life,” adding, “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

Because Muslims deny that God has a son, they explicitly reject any Trinitarian language. From the very starting point, Islam denies what Christianity takes as its central truth claim: the fact that Jesus Christ is the only begotten of the Father. If Allah has no son, then Allah is not the God who reveals Himself through the Son. How then can calling God “Allah” not lead to anything but confusion—and worse?

Islam teaches that the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemous. But the Christian faith is essentially and irreducibly Trinitarian. The Bible reveals that the Father is God, that the Son is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God. Jesus is not merely a prophet, as acknowledged by Muslims; He is God in human flesh. This is precisely what Islam rejects.

Here;  http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/42005-do-christians-and-muslims-serve-the-same-god

So stand firm, friends! When someone ignorantly declares that Muslims worship the same god as "everyone else" tell them VERY LOVINGLY that of course that is not possible.  When they demand why you believe this,  just tell them because the God of the Bible is ALSO JESUS CHRIST and the Holy Spirit.  Anyone who denies that Christ is God cannot be worshipping the same God as Christians.  Period!

Then some will insist that Jesus is in the Koran.  In which your response can be, "that might be, but clearly the Jesus of the Koran IS NOT the Jesus of the Bible...anymore than Jesus, the baseball pitcher from the Dominican Republic, is the Jesus of the Bible.

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