Are Allah and the Christian God the Same?
Posted by Lorren on April 1, 2011
Today is day 1 of the A to Z Blogging challenge… so for the month of April, I’ll be posting different topics from A to Z, starting with A today. On Sunday there won’t be any posts.
For the first post of the challenge, I’m tackling the question “are Allah and the Christian God the same?” Some Christians (and Moslems) like to say they are. Is this the truth?
The Koran says: Say, “He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.” (112:1-4) So Allah does not have a son.
The Christian God, on the other hand, does have a son. Jesus is God’s son. So they can’t be the same.
Mara said,
Hmm, I have never thought of it like that before.
I guess in my mind the Christian God love everyone, so he would respond to all people on earth if they pray to him, whether they have a correct understanding of him or not.
But if you look at it from a scriptural perspective of who they believe Allah to be, then I guess they wouldn’t think He was the same God.
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Wendy said,
I can see where you’re coming from, but I’d like to explain why I think they’re both referring to the same God (as well as the Jews). That reason is the common origins they all have. Arabs are descendants of Abraham as are the Jews. As such, they would have had knowledge of the God of the Old Testament. Because they went their separate ways after Isaac was born, they would have carried with them their knowledge of God up to that point. Erroneous teachings, I’m sure, would have crept in (as they also have in the Christian church over time and in varying degrees), but the fact remains that Jews and Arabs are children of Abraham and Abraham is an ancestor of Jesus. Therefore, I do believe they are referencing the same God, even if their interpretations are erroneous.
Lorren said,
They did have the same father, but they had different destinies. Isaac was the chosen son, Ishmael was a man of war.
I did some research on Abraham last October for an article that I wrote on his life in Ur. What really struck me was that both Ur and Haran, where Abram moved after he left Ur, worship the moon god. Islam, which originated with the Ishmaelites, comes from a culture that had many gods, including the moon god; the crescent moon is one of the symbols of Islam.
I believe that the Bible says that Ishmael went to Egypt after he left Abraham, but his mother would have been from either Ur or Haran, more than likely (and may have worshipped the moon god herself) and there’s nothing that would contradict the Bible if Ishmael had spent part of his time after leaving Abraham back in the land of his mother, at least for a time.
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