Well when I look at it from the point of view of someone who is neither Christian Jewish nor Muslim it seems self apparant they all worship the same God, but have different ideas on that God's characteristics.
Which is the same thing as what I'm saying except that if you have wrong ideas about His characteristics that's as good as not knowing Him at all or worshiping a false God.
The best way to see this is to look from the Muslim point of view. From their point of view they worship the same God as Christians and Jews.
Apparently you haven't heard them ridicule the name of Jehovah or the idea that God has a Son. It is false of them to say that and then say they worship the same God.
They just see the original writings about that God having been corrupted by men over they centuries until they have warped so much the real meanings have been lost.
Yes, so "corrupted" that God in one of them says Isaac is Abraham's heir but in the "corrected" version lo and behold, it's not Isaac but Ishmael. Right, some "corruption." Or that in the "corrupted" version Jesus is the Son of God, but in the "corrected" version God has no Son. You believe the mallarky that that calls this the difference between a "corrupted" text and a true text? Not to mention that the claim of corrupted texts is easily falsified in any case and shown to be a bald lie.
They accept Jesus and Moses and Abraham as prophets of God, but disagree on some of the details that survived in recorded form about them.
Right, it's just a minor "detail" that changes the nature of Jesus Christ from God incarnate to a mere human prophet. Nothing to get all worked up about.
The Christian/Jewish thing is easier still. Naturally neither Christians nor Jews worship the Islamic idea of God but Christians do worship the Jewish God, but believe that He has provided us with a New Testament after he manifested himself into flesh and came to Earth.
Please read my
Message 74. While in some technical sense we worship the same God, the one described in the Old Testament, if you take what Jesus actually said about the Pharisees of his day, the ones who didn't believe in Him, that they corrupted Moses' teachings, that God is not their father, that Abraham is not their father, but the devil himself is, claiming they have anything whatever to do with the God of the Christians is hard to support.
So, Christians worship the Jewish God and Muslims worship the God of Christians and Jews. Jews are the ones remaining. Obviously in their concept of God He has not been made flesh so Jesus was not his Son. Its the same God, they just deny that there was a New Testament and they are still working off the old one.
So it doesn't matter to God whether we understand anything correctly about Him or not, whether He has a Son or not, right? According to your neat little formula He doesn't care how people worship Him, although (at least according to the scriptures of two of the religions in question, scriptures supposedly but not really respected by the third major religion) He zapped out the lives of Israelite priests who did it wrong, and He wasn't at all pleased with their making a golden calf and worshiping it as if it represented Him either.
To cut the story short. They do worship the same God, their disagreement lies not in which God they worship but in the significance and authenticity of certain prophets. To Muslims, Jesus was a great prophet and Mohammed is the final prophet. To Christians, Jesus was God made flesh and Mohammed was not an authentic prophet. To Jews, neither Jesus nor Mohammed were authentic. Its not the God that the disagreement centres on, the disagreement lies in who His agents were.
Sorry Mod, you've just regurgitated the Official Multiculturalist Propaganda and trivialized the whole question. That post should earn you an A in introductory Comparative Religion as taught in any major university, but it's nothing but political correctness.
The religions aren't just "DIFFERENT," they CONTRADICT one another on MAJOR points. Calling God a "prophet" is NOT a minor point. Who Abraham's sole heir was is CRUCIAL to the whole meaning of the Biblical revelation of God through Israel.
Whatever similarities there are, and of course there are going to be similarities (just as there are a majority of similarities as opposed to differences between any three human beings), the contradictions are what make it clear these three conceptions of God are not describing the same Being.
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