Over the past few weeks, there's been a lot of discussion online related to the question,

do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? The discussion was spurred on by a debate on

the Tim Poole podcast and a debate on capturing Christianity, where the Eastern Orthodox guest

used it to argue that Catholicism is false. I wasn't planning on addressing this issue because my

colleagues Joe Heschmeire and Jimmy Aiken have

already addressed this question on their own channels and I try not to address topics other people

have already covered. But I got a lot of requests to talk about it and there are a few arguments

that I can offer that complement what Joe and Jimmy have already said. And there's also some

objections that have come up since then that I can

address. So let's jump right in. First, I want to be clear that I don't like the phrasing,

Muslims and Christians worship the same God. That sounds like we're saying the God of Christianity

and the God of Islam are identical in all respects, which is false. The Christian God is a trinity of three distinct

divine persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The God of Islam is, in contrast, a single, infinite

person who has other different attributes, though both concepts also have many overlapping attributes

as well. It is silly, though, to say Islam does not worship the true

God, though, simply because Muslims call God Allah. Allah is the Arabic word for God. It's the same

word Arabic-speaking Christians use when they refer to God. So the name Allah isn't the main issue.

But I still don't think it's prudent to make the claim Muslims and Christians

worship the same God. You can show that claim is true, but you have to qualify it, otherwise

people will think that you're committing religious indifferenceism. It's sort of like the claim

Catholics worship Mary. That claim is true, but it has to be qualified so people don't think you're committing

idolatry. Catholics give Mary the respect she is worth. They give Mary her worthship, since Luke

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