Do Christians and muslims worship same God?

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I listened to some YouTube clips alleging Pope recently said Christians and muslims worship the same God.

Can you tell me if he actually said this , give link if possible ?
 
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I don’t know if Pope Francis said this.

I’m pretty sure that Christians, Muslims, and Jews worship the same God. They are all Abrahamic Religions.
 
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I think they do. However, doesn’t mean they don’t worship the same God. I think the Catechism mentions something about this. They just have faulty understandings of God.
 
so explicitly denying Divinity of Jesus Christ is not a “deal breaker” in any way ?
 
Can you tell me if he actually said this , give link if possible ?
There just was a thread about this a few days ago. Use the search function.

The Church has always taught that Christians, Muslims and Jews all worship the same God. The Popes statement was not controversial at all except to those don’t know Church teaching.
 
Muslims and Christians worship the same God, Muslims just call him Allah.
 
But they reject the Holy Trinity, so in a way we do not worship the same God.
 
They simply do not fully understand God’s nature. The Jews also reject the Trinity, yet no one would dare say that Jews worship a different God than Christians.
 
All three faiths worship the God of Abraham. We Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity. The Muslims believe Him to be a great Prophet, second only to Mohammed. If my memory serves me right, the Jews also see Jesus as a Prophet but not the Messiah as we do.
 
We all worship the God who created the universe and life. The same God hears all our prayers despite our differences.
 
These are the principal Catholic dogmas that I, as a Muslim, can (and do) accept:

That there is only One God, our Creator and Lord; who can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things; who is absolutely perfect; who is actually infinite in every perfection; who is absolutely simple; who is the True God, possessing an infinite power of cognition; who is absolute Veracity; who is absolutely faithful; who is absolute ontological Goodness in Himself and in relation to others; who is absolute Moral Goodness or Holiness; who is absolute Benignity; who is absolutely immutable; who is eternal and everywhere present in created space; whose knowledge is infinite.

That the Divine Attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence; that God is almighty; is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth; is infinitely just and infinitely merciful.

That all that exists outside the Exalted was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by Him; that He was moved by His Goodness to create the world; and this this was done for His glorification; that He has created a good world; a world that has a beginning in time; that He created all things, and holds all these things in existence.

That through His providence He protects and guides all that He has created; that He created the first man (and woman); that every human being possesses an individual soul; and that the Exalted has conferred on humankind a supernatural Destiny.

That sanctifying grace makes one holy; that such grace can be increased by good works; and may be lost, and is lost, by every grievous (mortal, serious) sin.

That by their good works the justified really do acquire a claim to supernatural reward from their Lord; that the bliss of heaven lasts for all eternity; and that the souls of those who die in the condition of personal grievous sin enter Hell.

That all the dead will rise again on the last day with their bodies; and that they will be judged.
 
One of my best friends is Muslim. She told me she believes at the end of days the Muslims and Christians will be standing together, fighting the dark forces and waiting for the final judgment together.
She prays for me and asks for my prayers.
 
But they reject the Holy Trinity, so in a way we do not worship the same God.
That can only be true if there is more than one god. If there is only one God, it’s impossible for two people to worship two different gods.

By way of analogy: Republicans think Trump is the best thing to happen to this country since sliced bread; Democrats think he’s the worst person to set foot in the White House since Gen. Robert Ross. How many U.S. Presidents are in office right now? Just one. Republicans and Democrats are governed by the same President; and Christians and Muslims worship the same (the only) God.

Muslims and Catholics describe God differently. So what? That doesn’t mean that they worship different gods; it just means that at least one of those two groups is mistaken in their understanding of who and what God is.
 
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