Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

Somehow we need a way to get on despite our differences, to learn not to be threatened by those who hold very different beliefs, but to see those as an opportunity to learn.

After eleven years of painstakingly examining the evidence, I had come to the firm conclusion that Christianity was true – uniquely, exclusively true – and Islam was not merely wholly different, but also false. The claims of Jesus bore the weight of careful scrutiny, while the claims of Muhammad did not.

your place and time of birth no doubt affect what you believe, but they cannot tell us whether those beliefs are true (or false).

Christianity has never been wedded to one specific culture in the same way as a religion like Islam or Buddhism.

According to the latest research from the well-respected Pew Research Center, by 2060 Christianity will have grown to 32% of the world’s population, Islam to 31%,2 and the number of people identifying as atheists or agnostics will have declined to 12.5%.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with believing your beliefs are true; the problem is when you treat those who disagree with you harshly and arrogantly. Cockiness is a problem; confidence and certainty are not.

Self-help or salvation? That question gets to the heart of whether or not we are speaking of the same god when we talk about Allah and Yahweh.

for the Qur’an the problem is human ignorance and forgetfulness; the solution is knowledge and information. By contrast, for the Bible, the problem is our sinful nature and alienation from God; the solution is atonement and transformation.

true compassion: you did something, it cost you, and you suffered alongside.