Here's Dennis Prager's take on the subject...

I ask the following three questions:

1. Do you believe in the “God of Israel”? Those who cannot answer this question in the affirmative do not believe in the same God that believing Jews and the majority of believing Christians do. As for Muslims, they should have no problem answering in the affirmative. But in our time, at least, many wouldn’t. The God of Israel is, among other things, the God introduced to the world by the Jews and their Bible: the God who created the world, revealed Himself to the Jews, and made His moral will known through the Ten Commandments and the Hebrew Prophets.

2. Does the God you believe in judge the moral behavior of every human being? There are many people today who say that they believe in God but not in a God who judges people’s actions. These people do not believe in the same God that traditional Jews and Christians worship. Those who believe in a God that is indifferent to the moral behavior of human beings believe in a “God” that is so different from the God introduced by the Jews that they might as well use a word other than “God.” This does not mean that such people cannot be fine upstanding people (any more than everyone who believes in a morally judging God is necessarily a fine upstanding person). But in general they are less likely to be moral for the obvious reason that most human beings act better when they believe their actions will be judged (by God or by man).


3. Do you believe in the God who gave the Ten Commandments? This question needs to be asked. After all, if God never revealed his moral will, how do we know what behaviors God demands from us and what He judges? Finally, what about all those people who answer the three questions affirmatively but who have additional theological beliefs that separate them from others who believe in these three things? Do they believe in the same God?

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For example, what about Christians who believe in the God of Israel, the God who morally judges human actions and who revealed the Ten Commandments — but who also believe, by definition, in the Christian Trinity? Do they believe in the same God as Jews and other non-Christians who believe in these three things? I think they do. And the same would hold true for a Muslim who believes in those things but also believes that the Koran is the only fully valid revelation. Whether or not one uses these three criteria, we should all at least acknowledge that saying one believes in God tells us nothing about the God one believes in. And regarding faith, that is what matters.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/43...elieve-same-god

Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #2

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The answer is a resounding NO on that one.

There are many scholars who would argue that Allah is not only not the God of the Bible, he is in fact Baal of the Bible. I'm one of them.

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #4

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Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #2

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The answer is a resounding NO on that one.

There are many scholars who would argue that Allah is not only not the God of the Bible, he is in fact Baal of the Bible. I'm one of them.

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IMHO the concept that we worship the same god is another red herring promoted under stealhe Jihad to make all aspects of Islam acceptable to us, to lower our guard against political, legal, social, economic, judicial aspects of sharia. You don't see Hindus or Buddhists saying they worship the same god, the God of the Bible, as Christians and Jews.

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