Allah is not same God as Christian God
1.Christians believe that Jesus is God, while Muslims don’t. Jesus being God is a basic doctrine of Christianity, (we are Christ followers and thus the name Christians) and it does not agree with Islamic teaching. For Christians, Jesus is God, and for Muslims Jesus is not God. Jesus says he is God in the Bible John 10:30 “I and the Father are One.” He also said “I am the way, the Truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Hebrews 1:3 “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory & the exact representation of his being.” Quran (Surah) 5:75 says “The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger. Jesus is just a messenger to them and a prophet.
Muslims may believe Jesus is a great prophet. But if they believe that, and Jesus says he is God, then Jesus is a liar or he’s crazy. So why would they think he’s a great man? Why not label him a fraud? InKoran 5:51 it says “O ye who believe take not Christians or Jews for friends…He who taketh one for a friend is one of them. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” Muslims claim God has no Son. Because the Muslims reject God as the Father of Jesus, than Allah cannot be the same as the God of the bible. According to Islam, worshiping the Christian God is not just wrong; it sends you to Hell.
2.Christians believe God is our Father and Muslims don’t. Jesus taught us to say “Our Father who art in Heaven. The Muslim God is more impersonal and distant. Our God is personal. He cares for us andloves us and wants us to do the same for others.
3.Christianity embraces the doctrine of the Trinity, of having one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Islam doesn’t. They don’t believe Jesus is the son of God and there is no Trinity. They believe the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemous. Jesus teaches in the bible Matthew 28:19 to make disciples of all nations and to baptize them “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
4.God made salvation available by sacrificing his Son and promises salvation by grace to those who believe. Allah sacrificed nothing and only saves if sufficient works are done Surah 2:25 “believe and work righteousness– But my question is how many works are enough? When do you know you’ve done enough? This may be the reason you see so many suicide bombers and terrorists. They fight for Allah so their salvation is secure and they don’t have to worry if they are getting into paradise or if their works are sufficient to please Allah. Christians rest secure in the work of Christ. Man alone can never be good enough because as Jesus said there is only one who does good—God alone. This is why he came to die for us. Christians believe our works will never be enough and works alone cannot save us. Only Jesus can. We are still called to love and do good works but it doesn’t earn us heaven.
5.We believe Chris resurrected from the dead—Muslims don’t believe Jesus was crucified or resurrected.
6.There is no marriage in paradise in Christian faith.(see Matt 22:30) Our joy will be God himself. We are the Bride of Christ. But faithful muslim MEN get many virgins in Allah’s paradise. Surah 56:35-38
7. Jesus treated women with love and compassion and as equals. Muslim men have permission to beat women and are created above them. .Quran (Surah) 4:34 Men are in charge of woman because Allah has made one to excel the other….so good women are obedient…Those whom (the husband) fears are rebellious, admonish them, send them to a bed apart and beat (scourge) them. Jesus treats women differently. He kept an adulterous woman from being stoned to death (Luke 7). When Jewish men wouldn’t speak to women, Jesus did. He called a woman “daughter of Abraham” when only men were¸¸
allowed to be referred to as “sons of Abraham.”
8..We are told by our love we will make disciples. Muslims are told to fight.(too many verses to quote all but here are a few)
Surah (Quran) 9:29 Fight against those (Christians/Jews) who have been given the Scripture as believe NOT in Allah Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah, Christians say Messiah is the son of Allah…Allah fighteth against them. How perverse are they. 9:123 O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty unto him.”
8:65 “Exhort the believers to fight..If there be of you 100 steadfast they shall overcome 1,000 of those who disbelieve. 5:93 Fight them until persecution is no more and religion is for Allah 4:89 choose no friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; If they turn back to enmity then take and kill them wherever you find them, and choose no friend or helper from among them. 9:5 Slay the idolaters wherever you find them.
I do believe many muslims believe Islam is a religion of peace but their Quran, which is to them like the Bible is to a Christian) teaches differently. So they either don’t read it fully or don’t follow it just like some Christians don’t read Bible or follow it.
Rather than told to fight unbelievers, we are told to love. John 13: 35 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”1 John 4:7-21 Let us love one another for love is from God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son.” John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.: Rom. 5:8 “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Not once in the Quron does it say Allah is a god of love. But in Quron “ The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” But the Christian God does not want anyone to perish. 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
9. Christians & Jews recognize Abraham’s son Isaac as heir of God’s promise of offsping that would make a great nation and be blessed by God. But Muslims believe it is Ismael-not Isaac that will be blessed by Allah. (Ismael was Abraham’s illigitimate son from an Egyptian woman)
Jews may not believe in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God, but Christians worship the God of Israel- the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob. The Christian line is from the legitimate son of Abraham. The bible says Christians have been “grafted” from the same branch as the Jews and that’s why Christians have a closeness with the Jews and should stand by them. The bible also says no nation should turn Jews away or go against them because the God of Israel (the Christian’s God & Israel’s God) protects them.Allah wants his people to fight Jews & Christians. God revealed himself to Christians through the Jewish people. The Jews believe the Messiah is to come. Christians believe he came already and will come again at the end.
Romans 11:1-36 Paul is speaking. He is a former Jew who persecuted Christians. He is saying God will not reject his chosen people, the Jews. “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.”
Epesians 3:6 “This mystery is that the Gentiles (Christians) are fellow heirs (with Jews), members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”We are a brotherhood with Jewish people and the Muslim’s god “Allah” is against Jews and Christians. If we had the same God why would he come against himself? In Mark 3:25 Jesus said, “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”