Can some please explain his thought to me. The above quote is what alot of christians use to prove that God and Allah are different.
Please explain how this works. The quran states Moses God, Noahs God, Jesus's God, abrahams God, The God that made heaven and earth, the God that created Adam, and split the nile, and went against the pharoahs, etc. Is Allah.
Yet because the believe Jesus is not God they must be different.
This just sounds like cherry picking to the extreme.
The father sent the son to deliver the holy spirit; the holy spirit is the identity and congregation of the church, and has communion with Christ to be reintegrated with the father. Christians and Muslims don't believe in the same God by virtue of not following the same teaching or spirit.
Good grief. This is cherry picking to the extreme, or mental gymnastics. This all says far more about what people think God is than about what God actually is. The ultimate blasphemy is to put limits on God: God can be this but not that.
Whether or not God even exists is completely independent of whether anyone believes in God. There either is or isn't a God. The fact that we don't know and cannot really know, at least not in this life, doesn't change the reality of what is (or isn't) out there. From this it follows that the nature of God is what it is, irrespective of what we think it is. What this means is that all of our perspectives on God can be right, or to paraphrase the Bahais, at least all perspectives that bear good fruit.
Christians have the trinity. Muslims have the 99 most wondrous names of God. Hindus have Ganesh, Shiva, Laksmi, Kali, Krishna, etc. etc. Other faiths have their diverse views of God. Why is this so controversial? If God truly is infinite, how can one human or even one church fathom the totality that is God? Why is it surprising if God appears one way to one person, and another way to a second, or even different to the child than to the man he becomes? Even we limited humans do that. Look at some random guy at work, or in your neighborhood. To his parents, he is Son; to his wife, he is Husband; to his children, Father; to his friends, Friend; to his boss, Office Manager; to the Cub Scouts, Scout Master; to the grocery store, Customer; etc. We don't fight over these different views of people. Why do it about God?
The concept of Trinity is missing from the Quran. The belief is that god sent Moses, Jesus and Mohammad as his prophets. That the Bible is the word of god but it has been corrupted over time. A simple way to look at it is: if god did exist, wouldn't everyone have the same god despite them having different names?
Exactly.
I just hope for the day that people can understand what religion tells them and not how can i use this to defend my wants, actions, and control people.
Some religions do tell their followers to control people.
Of course the existence of a God does not depend on evidence and reason, but simply faith. And the more preposterous a God appears, such as with the head of an elephant as does Ganesh, or such as with three heads as does the Trinity, the more faith we need. But sometimes we can't stop ourselves from laughing.
So do you expect God to look like us instead? Man creates God in his own image indeed. And religion overall could use more humor. Bill Cosby did at least one thing right.