How to Answer "Muslims & Christians Worship the Same God!"

Recently a professor at a Christian college stepped down after saying that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. The confusion with many rests with scripture interpreted without the Spirit of Truth. Interpreting scripture without the Spirit of Truth leads to dead religious interpretation where theologians make the same mistake the Pharisees did in Jesus day. They can be staring right at God's Word and yet, never see the truth. In fact, not only did they not recognize the Way, the Truth and the Life, the promised Son that God sent them; they helped kill Him. 

It is true that Isaac, the son of the promise and Ishmael, shared the same father; Abraham. Abraham in is referred to our father in the faith in Romans 4.  Ishmael became a great nation or nations and through his heritage came Islam.  However, that does not mean that Christians and Muslims share the same God. We do share a common heritage. But men choose which God they worship.

All people came from Adam and Eve and yet we do not all worship the same God. Scripture teaches us that Satan comes and masquerades as an angel of light. He is ultimately the one behind all the different deceptions for he seeks the worship that  only belongs to God himself (Isaiah 14:12-16). He (the false god) looks good on the surface but upon closer inspection, it is a deception. He seeks to trick people into worshiping himself as God for he desires to be "like the Most High."  He is a thief and seeks to steal God's glory (John 10:10). 

Sadly, we've done a poor job of making disciples who daily read and study God's word and actually have a personal prayer life. This is the reason there are so few who are not confused by statements like "Muslims and Christians worship the same God." 

The Bible is our standard and says:

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• 1 Corinthians 2:15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
• This means a spiritual man or woman does is to judge words and actions by comparing them to God's word. That does not mean we judge people. God does that. But we are to judge their words and actions.

Matthew 7:15-20 teaches us how to judge false prophets (ministers). We are exhorted that we will know them by their fruit. Fruit refers to what they produce through their words and actions. That is what reveals their character. 

So the question is, what is what do the words and actions of Islam produce. Now granted, not everyone in Islam acts upon nor believes everything the Koran says. It's the same in Christendom. However, the teachings found in the Koran have yielded the following since 9/11. 

• Over 27,000 terrorist attacks
• In the last 30 days there have been 129 attacks, 1500 murdered, 1633 injured spanning 20 countries. 
• Genocide of Christians and displacement of millions
• Kidnapping, murder, rape, torture, stealing, lying, enslavement and more  
• Click here for the source of this list found on TheReligionofPeace.com

Would you agree that murder, rape, torture, stealing and lying are sins? These acts and those who commit them are not right. Those actions are reflect a hatred of certain people for love does not steal. Love does not rape. Love does not spread fear and murder. Love tells the truth. Would you agree? 

Let's look at what the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth prompted the Apostle John to write about how to discern the source of good and evil in 1 John 3:8-11.

• Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. ​ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest:Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

We learn that:

• He who commits habitual sin is of the devil. 
• Those who encounter the Son of God, are are born again in Jesus name, ​​stop doing the works of the devil because their heart was changed. That is one way the devil's works are destroyed. The inward work results in an outward action.  The affect of LOVE can be seen. 
• The works of the devil, those who practice the works of the devil are clear. It is the manifestation of hating God and our brothers and sisters. Since we all descended from Adam and Eve, we are all from the same family. Hate leads to murder, theft, lying and the justification of unrighteous acts. 

John goes on to in 1 John 3:14-15 that: 

• We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Look at the fruit. Look at the results. Click here for a thorough comparison of Islam and Christianity and what Jesus taught as compared to Mohammed. 

It is true, we have some common history but it is clear, we DO NOT worship the same God. Jesus said:

John 10:10-11 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  " I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

Jesus does not destroy lives; He saves! He died for you and I that we might have an eternal relationship with a loving heavenly Father. He died for those who are bound in the deception of Islam as well. He desires that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Father. 

So do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?  No!

Let us pray that the veil is lifted. Lord of the harvest I pray you would send laborers into your harvest. I pray you deliver those bound in deception that they might have the opportunity to know the love of the Way, the Truth and the Life; Jesus Christ.