Is the God of Islam the God of the Bible?
Since there are two faiths that have come from the Bible, Judaism and Christianity, let’s just consider two verses that show that the god of Islam differs from the God of both of these Bible faiths.
First, recall that the Lord Jesus told the Samaritan woman, “Ye worship ye know not what” (John 4:22). There was no creed on the planet at that time that was more similar to Judaism than the religion practiced by the Samaritans. There were countless similarities between the two faiths, and yet it was the Lord’s assertion that the Samaritans didn’t know what they were worshipping, any more than the pagans who worshipped “THE UNKNOWN GOD” at Athens (Acts 17:23). This indicated that, in His opinion, the Samaritans did not worship the same God.
So, in view of the countless differences between Islam and Judaism, it is difficult to see how it can be said that Muslims worship the God of Judaism.
To this must be added the testimony of the Apostle Paul, who declared;
“But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.” (1 Corinthians 10:20 (KJV).
From these words it seems clear that the gods of the different religions of the Gentiles were not the God of the Christian faith that God used Paul to establish here on earth (I Cor. 3:10). This is especially so when we consider that Paul was actually quoting Deuteronomy 32:16,17, where Moses called the gods of the heathen nations “strange gods…and devils…new gods that came newly up.”
In light of these two verses that show that the god of Islam is not the God of either of the two faiths of the Bible, it is certain that the god of Islam is not the God of the Bible.
John wrote and this is still true today, “he that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father” (John 5:23), and “whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father” (I John 2:23).
No faith that denies that the Lord Jesus Christ is “the Son of God” who died to pay for the sins of all men can be said to worship the God of the Bible.