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Is Allah, the God of Islam, the same Abrahamic God as is worshiped by Jews and Christians. I believe it is. No one I know believes this.?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe that there is only one God and that they are worshiping him.

    The Jews are the Hebrews -- the family who stayed with Abraham until his death and continued his covenants with God after he died, through the time of Moses when these covenants were solidified in a direct national revelation between God and the entire Jewish nation, and they continue to follow the laws from Moses.

    The Christians believe that they inherited a strongly transformed version of the covenants of Moses and Abraham through worshiping a Jew named Jesus.

    The Muslims likewise believe that they are the inheritors of the covenants of Abraham and Moses and Jesus --

    through an updated revelation that Mohammad received from the angel Jibril (Gabriel) - the Koran.

    Of-course -- the three groups strongly disagree on the details of exactly what this God is like and what he wants from those who follow him.

    So - either --

    They are all trying to do the will of one single entity but at least two of them are wrong about what that will is,

    or --

    They are describing three different entities as The One God of Abraham -- and at least two of them are wrong about the entities they worship.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes, Allah is the Arabic for GOD without any GENDER related. Even though Jews & Christians have twisted their belief over time, Quran has certified the Messengers obeyed by or more accurately to say certified by Jews & Christians are also believed by Muslims as Messengers of GOD. Muslims don't differentiate among Adam, David, Moses, Jesus & Muhammad (SM), they respect each & every messenger of GOD from bottom of their heart.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes, of course.

    Properly, Christianity should be viewed as the child of Judaism, and Islam largely as a child of Christianity. Certainly, the god each of those religions reference is the same god.

  • 5 years ago

    There is one God, of course. It is the First Cause. Otherwise, we may as well start looking for Whatever IS that first cause.

    I never could understand how folks could have such a small view of god that they would think there are different gods for different faiths. This reduces god to little more than some kind of good fairy, with some shadowy figure in the background being the actual First Cause, the actual God (with capital G).

    We all worship this First Cause; we just use different names. Of course, it's useful to remember that Allah is not a name for God. It is simply God in Arabic, just as Deo is God in Latin, Gott is God in German, Dieu is God in French, and Bog is God in Russian. There are a lot of Christian Palestinians who, when they worship God, call God Allah; they don't do this because they are secretly Muslim; they do this because Allah is simply the generic word for God in Arabic.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Allah is NOT a God and he certainly is NOT the God of Christians or Jews

  • 5 years ago

    It clearly is because they all split from the Abrahamic God. I don't get why people claim they aren't. Not having the same exact interpretations of past events doesn't morph the God into something else. They all claim the same God, just differing understandings of that God's teachings.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You know someone named Tony. I know someone named Tony. Are they the same person?

    Your Tony is single, has no kids, works as an auto mechanic, lives in California.

    My Tony is married, has two kids, is an accountant, lives in Wisconsin.

    Is it the same Tony?

    Neither is the Muslim Abrahamic god the same as the Biblical Abrahamic God. The two have such differing definitions and characteristics that they simply can not be the same person.

  • 5 years ago

    I've come to accept that too, to a certain point. Obviously the three (and arguably many more) different religions believe significantly different things about Him, but I believe we're all ultimately drawing towards the same God in our own ways. Those of us that are trying, at least.

  • David
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    Yes, all three at based off of the profit Abraham

  • Linda
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The god that Muslims worship is not the God of true Christianity.

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