If what you say is true we might as well do away with the gospel of Christ since it is admant that there are distinctions among what is true and what is false.
Here is what I John 2:22-23 say about this:
22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
They are not worshipping the same God as Christians do since they deny the Son as well as the Father.
You are taking this verse out of context, ja4. This is written for gnostics, who heard the Gospel, and believed that the flesh is evil, and that the Divine One would not take on human flesh. Most Muslims have never heard the gospel, and cannot be condemned for what they do not know. They are judged in the light of their own conscience. They only know the revelation of God as they received from Ishmael. however, this is the God of Abraham, and the God of Abraham is the God of the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians.
If what you say is true we might as well do away with the gospel of Christ since it is admant that there are distinctions among what is true and what is false.
Here is what I John 2:22-23 say about this:
22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
They are not worshipping the same God as Christians do since they deny the Son as well as the Father.
You are taking this verse out of context, ja4. This is written for gnostics, who heard the Gospel, and believed that the flesh is evil, and that the Divine One would not take on human flesh. Most Muslims have never heard the gospel, and cannot be condemned for what they do not know. They are judged in the light of their own conscience. They only know the revelation of God as they received from Ishmael. however, this is the God of Abraham, and the God of Abraham is the God of the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians.
For Muslims to be worshipping the same God as Christians they would have to believe that God is a Trinity and Christ is God. They deny both of these core Christian beliefs. It is impossible to claim Christians and Musliums worship the same God.
No, ja4. They only know the God of Abraham. God did not reveal Himself as a Trinity in the time of Abraham, or even Moses, or even the Prophets. This did not happen until Jesus. They worship only what has been revealed to them.
John 4:21-22
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
You can’t fault people who are true to what is known to them.
Acts 8:14-17
14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Sama’ria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, 15 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit; 16 for it had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Would you say that the Samaritans were believing “falsly” because they had an incomplete experience? No, the Apostles did not criticize them for not knowing the fullness. They imparted to them the fullness.
Where do you get the idea that i said the Jews are worshipping a pagan god?
Because you are saying that Judaism and Islam are “false” religions, even though they worship the God of Abraham.
