Wheaton College was entirely right to put a professor on administrative leave for claiming that Christians and Muslims worship the same god.

By Matthew Cochran, DECEMBER 21, 2015

Let me tell you about Chris Evans. Chris is a famous Hollywood actor—a large, muscular fellow who has made quite a name for himself playing a leading role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You’ve probably seen him in the two Avengers movies, but he’s played in many other films. For example, he starred in “Cabin In the Woods,” “Snow White and the Huntsman,” and the recently released “In the Heart of the Sea.” Nevertheless, big fans of comic book movies are probably most excited about him reprising his role as Odin’s son in “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”

Now, anybody who follows contemporary cinema will tell you that, while I started off okay, it quickly became apparent that I had the wrong guy. Despite my initial claim, I was not telling you about Chris Evans at all; I was telling you about Chris Hemsworth. Chris Evans is indeed a famous Hollywood actor with a superhero physique and roles both in and out of the Marvel films, but he plays Captain America rather than Hemsworth’s Thor. While you might remember him from such films as “Snowpiercer” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” he was not in the others I listed.
In other words, while I had some of the Chris Evans facts right and some wrong, the ultimate problem is that I was talking about a different person altogether.

If we change subjects from figurative idols to literal ones, we find ourselves in an analogous situation.

Wheaton College was recently bold enough to place a tenured professor on administrative leave for claiming that Christians and Muslims worship the same god, in contradiction to Wheaton’s statement of faith. In response, ecumenically-minded Christians have claimed she was entirely correct—Christians and Muslims do worship the same God albeit in different ways—and conclude that she was unjustly disciplined.

Wrong Guy, Not Just Wrong Facts

Those who make this claim typically try to reduce the vast differences between these two religions’ views of God to a matter of differing details about the same God. For example, Baylor’s Francis Beckwith recently wrote,

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? To answer it well, we have to make some important philosophical distinctions. First, what does it mean for two terms to refer to the same thing? Take, for example, the names “Muhammed Ali” and “Cassius Clay.” Although they are different terms, they refer to the same thing, for each has identical properties. Whatever is true of Ali is true of Clay and vice versa.

He goes on to affirm that they are indeed the same because, as monotheistic concepts of God, both share identical properties—including the property of being completely unique in this godhood. The differences Beckwith dismisses as instances of “incomplete knowledge” and “false beliefs” about the same object.

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He goes on to affirm that they are indeed the same because, as monotheistic concepts of God, both share identical properties—including the property of being completely unique in this godhood. The differences Beckwith dismisses as instances of “incomplete knowledge” and “false beliefs” about the same object.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/21/whea...-are-different/

[Full Disclosure: TM is an alumnus of Wheaton Graduate School]

Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #2

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This is the right decision. Allah is most definitely not the God of Abraham, the biblical God. A couple of points:
3. There is much scholarly and archaeological as well as historical evidence that Allah is in fact "Baal" of the New Testament. You worship Allah you are in fact worshiping the Old Testament god Baal. More Here

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