Why do Christians don't believe that Muslims worship the same God as Jews?

I find people who say, "YHWH is not Allah," rather annoying.

Allah is the WORD for God in the languages that are used by most followers of Islam. It is not his name.

And ever since people laid blame for Jesus' crucifixion on the Jews (for denying the claim of his holiness and turning him in to the Romans as a rabble-rouser), hard-core "Christians" have hunted down the Jews. The Holocaust was not the first incident of Jew-hunting in Germany, as one example.

And the Crusades were waged by the Christians in western Europe to reclaim the "holy land" from... not just Muslims, but Jews.

All three religions have fought with each other, with no side really getting the better hand, since their respective creations. Jews were hunted by non-Jews before Christ. Christians and Jews have fought since Christ. Muhammad's teachings led to another front in the war over the SAME GOD.

The ones that are that offensive to Muslims, are just as offensive to Jews on the same point...

So where they'd claim Muslims don't worship the same God...

They'd claim Jews reject their God.

As Jews, we've spent a lot of centuries being killed for it. Go figure.

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The one thing that had given me pause, is that the Koran & what's in it is a different expection than the Jewish God (such as a hell). So maybe it's a different God. However, the concept of God is very similar in the two & over the centuries, Jews have assumed it is the same God being worshipped. We assume the father in Chrisitnaity is also the same God.

Judaism has nothing to say about JC. He's not a teacher, rabbi, prophet, existing or non-existing, good or bad, just nothing -- irrelevant. Islam considers him a prophet, though not a major central one & definitely not a part of God.

Because they can't figure out that other languages don't use the English word for god. Allah literally means God. It's the exact same word in another language. It would be like saying a Hispanic person worships the wrong god because they pronounce Jesus Hey-Soos and say Dios instead of God. Same difference. But people can be uneducated and willfully ignorant. Sad, really.

I was thinking about this just yesterday.

Judaism barely recognises the existance of Jesus(pbuh), some deny him completely while others lower his status to a rabbi. Muslims call him a Prophet and give him utmost respect. Yet for some reason, it is instilled into Christians that Allah is anything but good, and Islam is the work of satan.

I wonder what they would say to Arab Christians then? They refer to God as Allah. The Arabic, or rather the actual name of Jesus is Isa, and Indian Christians refer to themselves as 'Isahi', which means Christian. What about that?

I think politics also may have had a had in it, but I haven't read too much history to comment on that(yet).

From the Jewish perspective: (mine)

Most Christians I've known mistakenly think that their religion is like Judaism minus Jesus..without any clue how utterly and profoundly different the religions really are. Their view of Jews through the New Testament and it's reinterpretation of the Jewish scriptures ..is foreign to Judaism. http://www.whatjewsbelieve.org/ is a good place for them to begin to learn the reality :)

Most Muslims recognize that Judaism isn't as close to Christianity as Christians think.

Jews view both Islam and Christianity as replacement theologies. While Islam is the younger religion, it is also far closer to Judaism.

Allah means God in Arabic and millions of Arabic speaking Jews have prayed to Allah and do. They're not Muslim, but Jewish.

The Muslim concept of the nature of God is far closer to the Torah concept of the nature of God than the Christian.

There are actually many more similarities between Islam and Judaism than there are between Judaism and Christianity.

Worship of or through a human being is a violation of Torah.

Yet, Islam and Judaism are also incompatible with core key aspects of doctrine.

To those who mistakenly say Judaism considers Jesus a prophet..NO, we do not. Never have.

Jesus does not have any role in Judaism whatsoever. He is insignificant to it.

He was not a Rabbi either. There was no such thing as a Rabbi until AFTER the destruction of the Second Temple in 70CE.

The TITLE of Rabbi did not EXIST until around 90CE when Yochannan Ben Zakkai established the bet ha midrash at Yavneh *first* conferred this title to those sages they considered Great (Rav) in the knowledge of the law(Torah).

During Jesus' lifetime the title did not exist. He was definitely NO Rabbi. Rav is the root word of Rabbi and Rav or Rab means great, and it refers to one great in knowledge of Torah. Rabbi is a title conferred to one and is not a word that simply means teacher. Teaching is just one role of a rabbi. Moreh is the Hebrew word for Teacher

The title RABBAN existed, but it was the title of the LEADER of the Sanhedrin. Jesus did not lead the Sanhedrin.

The fact that the New Testament calls both Jesus and Paul rabbis has long been evidence to anyone knowledgable of Jewish history as evidence of two things: 1) that the NT was written after the term was coined

2) It was written to back engineer them into having respected positions in the Jewish community despite no mention of either of them in any Jewish writings contemporary to their lifetimes.

The Hellenized and apostate Jews and the Gentile Romans who wrote the books of the New Testament were either unaware that the title Rabbi began after the destruction of the Temple, or they knew their primary target audience wouldn't know it.

Bottom line.. technically it is anachronistic to refer to Jesus or anyone before about 90 CE as Rabbi in the sense of the type of religious teacher they refer to when using it.

So before 70 CE..there were no rabbis. There was one or two Rabbans, who led the Sanhedrin.

Christians waver between two opinions I say if YHWH is God follow him but then if Jesus is God follow him .

I thought both Muslims and Jews believe Jesus existed, but that he was a prophet and not the messiah? No? Maybe it was just Judaism?

Also, I thought Jesus was just the SON of God, not God himself or "a god"...Christians only believe in one God.

I agree with Chris, and to add Christians and Jews serve YHWH as God, not Allah. Also if we believed in the same God, why do Muslims desire to wipe out Christianity and Jews?? A house divided, cannot stand. Hence, we are not 1 house, but 2 VERY different beliefs. We do not serve the same God.

Many devoted Christians believe that Islam is the devil's religion and that the devil's religion will grow very large in the End Times...

That's the truth.And Judaism and Christianity both share a whole set of books(Old Testament)unlike the Muslims whom have just one book.Also what they say in the Quran differs a lot from judeo-christian beliefs

it is a clear fact that all religion ask to believe in the same God and the ONLY God

everyone here is arguing to prove he is right and everyone else is wrong!!

thank u for such educating questions