Wise words, and gracious, after taking heat especially. You’ve set a good example for all of us.
Of all the questions that have arisen and are yet to be answered concerning the Muslim religion, the question: Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? - is most vexing. I’ve been following MavPhil’s extensive threads on the subject, and what I thought would be an easy answer - well it ain’t so easy. I’ve settled on my own opinion, but I’m going to go any further than calling it that. There is a reason I bring this up? Yes, two actually.
1.First, the main focus of the ‘same God’ problem (SGP) as between Muslim and Christian is, for many people, the tri-unity of the Xn and the strict monotheism of the Muslim. I think that’s a wrong-headed approach, but there is a lot of discussion centered around the SGP in trin/monotheist terminology and concepts. Too big a problem to go into here.
- It slowly dawns on one, going through the arguments concerning the SGP, that the question will eventually be asked - does that Xn worship the same God as that other Xn? That’s the cutting question.
The answers range from a curt “yes of course” to a curt ‘no’ to a whole lot of not curt ‘maybes’ and ‘probablies’.