One God- but not the same one God
Christians faithful to the biblical revelation and the "faith once delivered" are often accused of intolerance by those more faithful to the spirit of the age for making the rather patent point that Christians and Muslims do not worship the same deity. As inescapable as Jesus Himself makes that point, it is anything but politically correct to point out that Allah- far from being merely "the Muslim name for God-" is in fact a entirely separate, false god.
That conclusion, of course, is inescapable if one takes as one's starting point the paradigmatic Christian notion that Jesus personally (not the entirely fictional Muslim "Isa") is God's quintessential self-revelation, or Jesus's own repeated statement, as recorded in the Gospels, that only through Him is the true God accessible.
But it isn't necessary to approach the matter theologically to reach that conclusion. As Bat Yeor points out, a mere comparison of the Christian and Muslim conceptions of God allows no other conclusion.
That conclusion, of course, is inescapable if one takes as one's starting point the paradigmatic Christian notion that Jesus personally (not the entirely fictional Muslim "Isa") is God's quintessential self-revelation, or Jesus's own repeated statement, as recorded in the Gospels, that only through Him is the true God accessible.
But it isn't necessary to approach the matter theologically to reach that conclusion. As Bat Yeor points out, a mere comparison of the Christian and Muslim conceptions of God allows no other conclusion.
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