Is Allah & Yahweh the same God?
Mazar sharif (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Jesus is considered by scholars such as Weber to be an example of a charismatic religious leader. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We live in a period of theological confusion that the book, Allah: A Christian Response by Miroslav Volf , does little to alleviate. Formerly a professor at Fuller Seminary, and currently Professor of Theology at Yale, Volf asks: “Can it be said of Muslims and Christians…that they too worship the same God ?” He answers, “Yes, it can” (11), and it must! This thesis has major problems in three areas: theology, missiology and eschatology. Theology Volf admits that the God of Christianity and the God of Islam are not “completely identical” (91). To me, the differences are overwhelming. In 2007, in A Common Word , 138 Muslim leaders affirmed that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. However, they were careful to quote Muhammad’s words: “there is no god but God…He hath no associate,” thereby eliminating the Tr