The commonly held idea of the modern world is that the God of Judaism,
Islam and Christianity is the same God.
- The idea stems from
the fact that all three religions share a history tracing back to the
Middle East, if not
- The idea is further
rooted in the worldly view that God is merely a belief rather than an
actual Person.
Since God is, to them, not much more than an idea, they see little
significance in the shades of difference in those ideas. But the God of
Judaism, Islam and Christianity is not the same God.
The God of Islam is not the
same God as Judaism
Their god, though springing from the same stories, departs from the God
of the Bible. Islam begins with the Biblical God but then twists Him into a
being unlike the God of the Bible. Islam early shows their willingness to
depart from the Biblical record concerning God by claiming that it was Ishmael
and not Isaac that Abraham was told to sacrifice as an offering to God. This
disregard for the Scripture betrays a consistent theme in the religion of Islam
to use the authority of the Bible to lend credibility to their religion while
all the while turning from it and the God of it.
The God of Judaism is not the
same God as that of Christianity
Though Christians and Jews share the same foundation of the God of the
Old Testament Judaism comes short of the complete revelation of God as revealed
in Jesus Christ. To claim that the God of Christianity and the God of Judaism
is the same God is to deny the deity of Jesus who the Bible says is "the fullness
of the godhead bodily."[1]
Jesus is more than a Saviour, more than the Messiah; Jesus is God incarnate. To
deny that is to deny God.
Marvin
McKenzie
In the
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