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Do Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians worship the same God?
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Were they doing that? That is not something I have been taught, nor is that something I have read in my own research.
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Yes, the term "Allah" doesn't belong to Islam. The term existed in the Arabic world long before Islam arrived on the scene, and it's basically the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew word Elohim.
Below is an excerpt from Building Bridges by Fouad Accad:
It’s interesting to observe that, in rejecting the Athenian’s erroneous concept of God, Paul did not reject the word they used for God, Theos, which was the common Greek word for God.
Some Christians unthinkingly say 'Allah is not God.' This is the ultimate blasphemy to Muslims, and furthermore, it is difficult to understand. Allah is the primary Arabic word for God. It means 'The God.' There are some minor exceptions. For example, the Bible in some Muslim lands uses a word for God other than Allah (Farsi and Urdu are examples). But for more than five hundred years before Muhammad, the vast majority of Jews and Christians in Arabia called God by the name Allah. How, then, can we say that Allah is an invalid name for God? If it is, to whom have these Jews and Christians been praying?
And what about the 10 to 12 million Arab Christians today? They have been calling God ‘Allah’ in their Bibles, hymns, poems, writings, and worship for over nineteen centuries. What an insult to them when we tell them not to use this word ‘Allah’! Instead of bridging the distance between Muslims and Christians, we widen the gulf of separation between them and us when we promote such a doctrine. Those who still insist that it is blasphemy to refer to God as Allah should also consider that Muhammad’s father was named Abd Allah, ‘God’s servant,’ many years before his son was born or Islam was founded!”
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Actually the Muslim understanding of Allah is a lot closer to the Jewish understanding of YHWH than Christianity is to either. Jew declare "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One!." Muslims proclaim "There is no god but God!" Christians say "in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which offendsboth Jews and Muslims.
And in the viewpoint of both Jews and Muslims, Christians appear to worship three Gods'
For instance?
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Why? Egyptian Christians were calling God "Allah" for a good many centuries before Mahound showed up to muddy the waters.
I think everyone ought to address God as "Hahna-nim" and Jesus as "Yaysu-nim. (Korean, the "nim" is a formal honorific).
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That's a very complicated question with Buddhism. It says something about its similarities in values, like transcending worldly attachments and compassion, that Buddha's story was Christianized into the saints Barlaam and Josaphat.
However, Buddhism branched out of Hinduism yet does not primarily venerate Hindu deities. It centers on Buddha and Bodhisattvas. It's kind of like if Christianity was about Jesus and the saints but not God the Father. Not a perfect comparison, the religions have other differences, but I think it gets the general idea across.
However, Buddhism branched out of Hinduism yet does not primarily venerate Hindu deities. It centers on Buddha and Bodhisattvas. It's kind of like if Christianity was about Jesus and the saints but not God the Father. Not a perfect comparison, the religions have other differences, but I think it gets the general idea across.
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