Do Christians and muslims worship same God?

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The Trinity is one God, Muslims reject it. It is true that we both worship God, but Muslims don’t worship the Son and Holy Spirit. So in that sense, we do and we don’t.
 
CCHcolonel said:
Islam is just a Christian heresy, no different than Arianism, pelagianism, Protestantism, etc
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Actually, Islam is a form of Arianism, with some other stuff added (as is Mormonism).

Acceptance of Jesus as the promised Messiah, but denying his divinity (or denying that he was Divine until some point) is the core of Arianism . . .
 
I believe so. Whether you want to argue about the veracity of one faith is one thing, but I have had some of the best discussions about religion with Muslims. I think the most interesting thing for me is how Jews and Muslims have reacted in different ways to the God of Abraham. This does not mean taking on their faith, it means their approach to the nature of God and how their faith pulls them into a deeper relationship with life.
 
There is some truth in Judaism as there is in Islam. Our faith tradition and practice is enriched by those of differing traditions such as Judaism and Islam. They add tremendous beauty to our shared glorifying of God
 
Then by reasons of my great desire for wisdom and understanding, I overcame my fear and questioned the Glorious One and said, “Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash are one?”

The Lion growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath was not against me) and said,

“It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted. Dost thou understand, Child?”

The Last Battle
 
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The question has actually been asked many times. It usually results by some in bashing Muslims (and sometimes Jews as well) as not really worshiping the true Gd. The fact of the matter, however, is that you are correct: the Church states they do worship the same Gd albeit not in a perfect way because they are not trinitarians.
 
silly me , I had thought we worshiped the Holy Trinity which muslims emphatically deny - I had thought the only path to salvation was through the Son who muslims emphatically deny and I had thought there was “no salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church” …

should I no longer think these things? does the church have a newer better understanding ? one less offensive and more inclusive perhaps ?

i’m considering buying a Council of Trent Catechism 🙂
 
Malcolm said:
silly me , I had thought we worshiped the Holy Trinity which muslims emphatically deny
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Do we worship the same God as the Jews?
Malcolm said:
I had thought the only path to salvation was through the Son who muslims emphatically deny and I had thought there was “no salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church” …
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Salvation is through the Church. However you don’t have to be Catholic to saved. The primary example is someone who lives a good life but, through no fault of their own, has not heard of the Church.
 
Elf01 said:
Do we worship the same God as the Jews?
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In my opinion , anyone who acknowledges Christ worships the same God we do . I can’t speak for Jews or anyone else so I guess they will have to answer for themselves to God .
 
There most certainly have been Islamophobic and Anti-semitic popes. Pope Paul IV stripped Jews of many rights in the Papal States. I doubt any Pope in the modern era is willing to defend everything their predecessors may have done.
 
Your question ambiguates and conflates the word “same”.

If two people are both looking at the same thing - a four legged animal with fur and a tail - and one thinks it’s a cat while the other thinks it’s a dog, would you ask…are they both looking at the same thing? No. Of course not.

As a matter of plain fact, they are both looking at just one single animal - not two. They actually agree there is only ONE animal to be seen. Neither accuses the other of hallucinating the existence of a second animal slightly off to the left or right.
 
Lion_IRC said:
Your question ambiguates and conflates the word “same”.

If two people are both looking at the same thing - a four legged animal with fur and a tail - and one thinks it’s a cat while the other thinks it’s a dog, would you ask…are they both looking at the same thing? No. Of course not.

As a matter of plain fact, they are both looking at just one single animal - not two. They actually agree there is only ONE animal to be seen. Neither accuses the other of hallucinating the existence of a second animal slightly off to the left or right.
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The ‘animal’ remains the same, whatever anyone chooses to call it. There is only ‘One God’ the creator of all that is seen and unseen. If the truth be known, we all have an incomplete understanding of God, but that does not change who God is.
 
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