Brett, a listener who lives in Warner, Robyns, Georgia, writes and to ask Pastor John,

do Christians and Muslims worship the same deity?

I was on a panel a few years ago at the evangelical theological site with the Muslim and another

believer and we each gave presentations and that was a very eye-opening experience because

the way most people pose this question is almost a defeater.

If you get into a conversation where they want you to start listing the attributes of

Yahweh or the attributes of your Christian God and they list the attributes of their God.

He wanted to have things like sovereignty, wisdom, eternal, infinite, just, and here's

Allah, they say with all those, and here's your guide with all those and they say, look,

it's the same and the case is closed, that's not a very biblical way to go about it.

Here's what I did in my presentation and when the Muslim stood up after me, he said, well,

I didn't know you were going to be so crystallological.

He almost had nothing to say and here's what I said, I said, the best way to tell if you,

sir, and I are worshiping God is to ask Jesus what the test is for the true worship of

God.

And Jesus said, if you reject me, if you reject me as the crucified one and Muslims do reject

him as crucified, if you reject me as the risen one and they do reject him as there is

one, if you reject me as the one who atones for sins through the shedding of my blood and

they do reject him for that.

So there's no question that Muslims reject the Jesus of the New Testament, they have their

own Jesus, but the Jesus that's presented as the gospel in the New Testament, they explicitly

and admittedly reject.

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