The Concept Of God In Islam And Christianity Religion Notes

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The Concept of God In Islam and Christianity
The concept of God for both Christians and Muslims is essentially the same, in that God is an omnipotent being above all of humanity, however there are critical differences between both. Christians believe that God is an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-holy, eternal, spiritual Being who created the universe. Muslims agree with all these attributes (or properties) of God. Since Islam, historically speaking, is an off-set of the Christian religious tradition. Therefore, our understanding of what God is like is in many respects the same. However, the major objection lodged by Islam against the Christian concept of God concerns the doctrine of the Trinity. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and shares the same divine nature with God the Father. Muslims reject this doctrine because they believe that it commits the sin they call shirk, which is the sin of associating anything with God. Muslims believe that God is a reflection of the unique concept that is a one true divine, using the personal name of Allah to emphasise the purity of the belief in God and separate him from another being. It is this attitude of Islam that recognises the metaphysical theory in that for God to be omnipotent or the almighty creator (the first) he cannot resemble or associate with those created, as he would then...

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