Originally posted by GmanJoe
It\'s not superficial at all. It is the underlying foundation. No pun intended but JESUS CHRIST! I just told you about Abraham! I told you that Jesus is considered a prophet by Muslims and is even mention in the Koran! But you keep rambling on about the Trinity. Not all Christians believe in the Trinity, like the Orthodox Church for example.
It\'s you who keep mumbling about superficial differences. I\'m talking about the freakin\' FOUNDATION! Ain\'t nothing superficial about that, foo!
Sorry, Ashford, but history can not be denied. People can spin it, mold it and so forth for their own beliefs (I mean, jeez...his book\'s title is "Islamic Invasion", he\'s gonna be biased) but the truth is, we worship the same God. The religions may be somewhat different but that\'s not what I\'m arguing about.
Abraham was the spiritual father of the religions. For Muslims, Abraham was just another prophet.
Muslims believe that all the prophets and messengers of God came with the same basic message and taught the same essential religion, that of submission (islam) to God. This list of prophets includes Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Jonah, Elijah, Zachariah, John the Baptist, Jesus, and also Muhammad (peace be upon them all and upon all other prophets that I haven\'t mentioned here). "
Nothing more. After him, for Christians Jesus was the reformer. The one that changed the overall perspective of God. For the Jews, Jesus was nothing. For the Muslims, Jesus was a prophet.
Three different view points mean three different Gods. One cannot believe God to be a certain way while the other sees God a different way.
You can NOT have "somewhat" different religions if the God in each religion has such deep differences. You can\'t say that a Ferrari, Focus or a Jetta are the SAME car. They are still cards but they are completely different.
"Muslims also believe that the original religions and scriptures have become mixed in with man-made doctrines over time. The most obvious example of this, for Muslims, is the deification of Jesus. Additionally, the Jewish prophets (including Jesus) and scriptures were sent only to the Children of Israel and not to all of humankind. It was in order to restore the original religion of God and to bring its message to all people that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was sent with the Quran, according to Islamic belief"
http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/007823.php"Muslims would dispute is whether Judaism and Christianity today are true to the original religions that were established and to what degree the scriptures known today as the Torah and the Gospels contain the original text revealed by God and to what degree they include man-made doctrines."
Muslims see the Christian and Jewish religions are literally man-made. They belief them to have a skewed idea of what God wanted them to do so therefore their version of God is not the same from Muslim point of view.
