cecil77 said:
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This is surface level theology. If we examine the nature of God as described by Islam through Mohammed and the nature of God described in the Old Testament and New Testament, they are not the same and so they cannot be the same God.
Abraham would disagree with you.
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Let's say you have a friend named John and someone you're talking to also has a friend named John. Y'all are trying to figure out if y'all know the same John. So what do you do? Start describing them. And quickly we find out that our friend John isn't the same John they know.
Specious. Clearly one of the friends has a different impression of John, does not at all follow that they are different humans. Knowing God is not like knowing a human being, at least not as applied to your analogy. A better analogy would be the elephant and the blind men. Flawed human beings all describing the same God will make it appear that there are different Gods, but there's just the one. You may certainly criticize their knowledge of God and their relationship to Him (just as they may criticize yours) - but to conclude they are different Gods is not only incorrect, but either posits the existence of more than one God or believing that billions of people pray to nothing. Neither of those is comfortable for a believing person.
I am comfortable with claiming that Mohammed's definition of God does not meet the nature of God as described in the OT, and fulfilled through Jesus as a Messiah. That means it isn't the same God. Mohammed says God endorses subjugation, war, lying, multiple perpetual classes of citizens, rape, 4 wives for followers but unlimited for himself. This wholly incompatible with the god of the Old Testament, and does not follow the OT prophecies about who is/when a Messiah will arrive. Their idea of salvation is foreign as it is works not grace. Their descriptions of paradise are perverted (72 virgins? Why even create marriage if you get a weirdly finite amount of girlfriends in eternity? How is this heaven for those women anyway?) man is not made in the image of God. They reject Jesus as the messiah and that he was The Angel of the Lord in the OT.
There is nothing about Islam that points to worshiping the same god as God beyond claiming family ties. And ties that God himself said he would not use to bring about the Messiah.
Your theology is built out of being kind for kindness's sake. It's not biblically sound. They worship a false god.