Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? (Part Two)

Muslims Know Who Their God Is

In addition to the Five Pillars of Islam, which are the core practices of Islam, there are the Six Articles of Faith, sometimes referred to as the Six Pillars of Faith. The Six Articles of Faith are: Belief in God, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and divine decree.  The Six Pillars of Faith are put into practice in the Five Pillars of Islam.

The Muslims, unlike the Samaritans and the Athenians, find their doctrine of Allah explicitly codified in the Quran. The Muslim god, Allah, is not the same as Christianity’s God.

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The Doctrine of the Deity of Christ defends Penal Substitution (Part seven)

The “glory of God” in Romans 3:23 is the manifestation of His presence. In the Old Testament, God’s presence was the outward Shekinah glory. In the New Testament, God’s glory was manifested in Christ about whom John could testify, “we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father” (John 1:14). Every sinner has fallen short of being Christ like. He is the standard against which every person must measure himself. Every believer is presently being changed into Christ image (Romans 8:28) and one day will perfectly “be changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthian 3:18).

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