Do Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons Worship The Same God?

This is a logical question considering these different 'religions' all claim to come from or 'depend' on the same book, The Torah and mostly the Old Testament.  Because they talk of the same "God" does that mean they all believe IN THE God of the Torah and of Christianity?  To know this, we need to look at essential characteristics of the god each religion that claims to believe in the same God and then simply compare.

The Triune God of Christianity

This essential biblical teaching is a profound and deep understanding of the eternal God of the universe.  He condescends these truths about himself just enough for us to be able to understanding Him to this degree.  This understanding allows us to know and understand him on the deepest level in our time in this world.  It also helps us see faiths that know Him and religions that do not know him.  Helps discern false teachings and truth in more clear terms.  The following is known as The Trinity.

It is so profound and at the deepest level of our understanding; it is best that our finite freshly minds can understand of our infinite and eternal creator of the universe.  Anything deeper is incomprehensible for our limited intellectual sinful minds to grasp.  The term "trinity" is not in scripture because it is a word used to describe the triune God described in scripture.  See 'Objections to the Trinity' bellow.

Christianity can be described as Monotheistic Trinitarianism.  Belief in One God made up of three 'persons'.  The word 'persons' does not accurately describe what makes up 'the trinity' but it helps.  It is NOT faith in three different gods. It is NOT One God with three different 'masks' (Modalism/Oneness Pentecostalism). It IS the following:

Islam: Muhammad's Fatal Mistake

Much like the bible, the Quran is dependent on the truthfulness of its teachings.  The source of the Quran's teachings is claimed divine.  Divine truths can not contradict other known truths or false in its teachings and this must be true for the Quran to be true (Quran 2:256).

It is clear the church taught The Trinity when Muhammad was having the Quran written.  The teaching of the Trinity is found all over the bible and the doctrine of the trinity was described in mid 4th century.  Orthodox Christianity has always taught that the Trinity is simply this:  One God made up of three unique equal 'persons'; God the Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.  One Triune God.  This is evident from all the early church writings and councils long before the creation of the Quran.

The Quran on the other hand runs into a big problem in its record of what Christianity taught and claimed.  In fact, Muhammad miss understood the doctrine of the Trinity found in the bible and taught for hundreds of years before him.  His misunderstanding and ignorance is recorded in the Quran.

Statement of Faith: The Holy Spirit

           The deity and personality of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4). He regenerates sinners (Titus 3:5) and indwells believers (Romans 8:9). He is the agent by whom Christ baptizes all believers into His body (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). He is the seal by whom the Father guarantees the salvation of believers unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13-14). He is the Divine Teacher who illumines believers’ hearts and minds as they study the Word of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-12).

Statement of Faith: The Trinity

           There is one triune God in whom are three eternal, distinct, simultaneous 'persons': the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.  All three are the one God, coeternal, coequal, in perfect harmony, unity, and relationship.  Still remaining as the only one triune God.  Not three gods and not one person who took three modes, offices, or forms. (Isaiah 44:6, 8; 45:5; Gen. 1:26-27; 3:22; Matt. 3:17; 28:19; Luke 9:35; 2 Cor. 13:14).  God is a trinity of 'persons' consisting of one substance and one essence.  God is numerically one.  Within that single divine substance and essence are three individual subsistence's that we call 'persons'.  the Father is first, the Son is second, and the Holy Spirit is third.

Essential truths of Christianity

1.  Jesus is God - John 1:1, 4, 10:30, 20:28 (also read Jesus Is God)

2.  Salvation by God's Grace alone - Eph 2:8-9 (also read The Amazing Grace of God)

3.  Salvation through Christ's Work alone - Acts 4:12; John 14:6

4.  Jesus' virgin birth, sinless life, bodily death, resurrection
on the 3rd day, and ascension to Heaven - 1 Corinthians 15:14; John 2:19-21 (also read Essentials of The Gospel)

5.  The true Gospel - 1 Corinthians 15:1-5; Galatians 1:8-9 (also read The Gospel Break Down)

6.  One God - Monotheism - Isaiah 43:10; 1 Cor 8:5-6

7.  The Trinity- Trinitarianism - Father, Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit - Matt 28:19; 1 Cor 12:4-6 (also read The Triune God of Christianity)

8.  Salvation through Faith alone - Heb 11:1,6

Any changes or omissions of these truths are outside of Christian Orthodoxy can lead to heresies.  These 8 truths relate to saving faith , eternal life, and correctly understanding Holy Scripture.

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