Do Christians believe in the same God Jesus did?

[Grace_Seeker]

Do Christian believe in the same God Jesus did?

Sounds like a silly question doesn’t it. But it comes out of some of the “proofs” I’ve seen about why Christians don’t believe in the same God that Muslims believe in. You see that argument goes something like:

Christians believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Muslims don’t. Therefore we must believe in different gods.

Well, Jews don’t believe in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit any more than Muslim do. Therefore the God that Jews worship must not be the same God that Christians worship. The Jews today worship the same God thay have since the time of Abraham, and Jesus worshipped this same God that the Jews of his day worshipped. Therefore, Jesus must have worshipped a differnt God than Christians worshipped.

Now, if you think there is something wrong with my logic above, isn’t there also something wrong with the logic when applied to Muslims who claim to worship the same God that Abraham worshipped that the Jews worship. So, if the Muslims and the Jews and Jesus all worshipped the same God, the God of Abraham, and if Christian worship the same God that Jesus worshipped. It seems to me that perhaps Christians worship the same God that Muslims do after all. The difference is that because we know Jesus, just as we know God more fully than do Jews, so also we know God more fully than do Muslims. But it is still the same God no matter which of the Abrahamic faiths you belong to.

 

[Charlie_Zeaiter]

… It seems to me that perhaps Christians worship the same God that Muslims do after all.

Well, yes. Catholics have always said that.

The difference is that because we know Jesus, just as we know God more fully than do Jews, so also we know God more fully than do Muslims…

Therein lies your problem.

The Jews and the Muslims don’t believe this. They believe they know God (and Jesus) better than we Christians do.

 

[paarsurrey]

Do Christian believe in the same God Jesus did?

Hi

I think the Catholics believe a different God than what Jesus believed. Jesus was a Jew, he believed the same God as Jews believed.

Thanks

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

Hi

I think the Catholics believe a different God than what Jesus believed. Jesus was a Jew, he believed the same God as Jews believed.

Thanks

The first sentence is just plain wrong, as a reading of the Gospels indicates. Not only did Jesus believe in the same God as the Jews, he knew that God, his Father, was to be fully revealed to all humanity, beyond the Jewish people. There was no change in the God believed in, just a much more complete revelation of him.

Blessings,

Gerry