Islam
The muslim’s god is Allah from whom both good and evil emanate, and to them Jesus was a prophet, although not as great as Muhammad. muslims are expected to believe in the Articles of Faith and observe the Pillars of Faith. Those who follow and obey Allah and the prophet Muhammad will eventually be rewarded by going to Paradise, a place of pleasure.
There are many differences between Islam and Christianity. Their teachings are in conflict. For the Christian, God is holy and cannot do anything sinful or evil. As for Jesus Christ, He was and still is God and faith in Him is the only way to heaven, not externally obeying a list of dos and don’ts. Unlike the muslim’s view of life after death, the Christian’s idea of heaven is eternity with a holy God, not a place where inhabitants enjoy the sinful pleasures they denied as human beings.
Do Muslims Worship the Same God as Christians?
In order to find the answer, let’s begin by asking ourselves a few very important introductory questions.
Is Jesus God? If the answer is yes, then we need to ask, Is the Muslim God Jesus? If Jesus is not the God of the Islam religion, then are Muslims worshipping the same God that we, as Christians, are?
In a sense, everyone who believes that there is a God begins by believing in the one true God. Unfortunately, these initial concepts of God have grown into religious systems and beliefs that have inaccurate and inadequate concepts of who He really is, what He’s like and what He expects from us. People in these religious systems, including Islam, either ignore or deny what God has universally revealed about Himself to mankind (i.e., creation/Romans 1:19-20, law in our hearts/Romans 2:12-15, and the prophets/Hebrews 1:1-2).
Here is a classic passage that refers to one God but many “images” (in other words, idols or false gods).
Do Muslims and those in other religious systems believe that Jesus is God? Do they believe in the one true God as He has revealed Himself in creation, our hearts and the prophets? The answer is no.
One can certainly argue that we all started at the same place, with a belief that there is a God. But when we evaluate whether Islam and other non-Christian religions have an accurate understanding of who He really is and what He is really like, we must conclude that their concepts of God are dramatically different than the God that is described in the Christian Bible. Because of that, it is valid to argue that the “god” of Islam is not the same as the Christian’s God. And why? Because Muslims have an inadequate and inaccurate concept of who God really is.
At the very least, we must conclude that Muslims are not worshipping in spirit and truth (John 4:24), because they don’t really know God. And why don’t they know God? Because they don’t recognize Him for who He really is. In essence, they have created a false, man-made “god.” Tragically, man-made “gods” cannot save their followers from sin and eternal condemnation.