A statement made by a professor at a leading evangelical college [in 2016 became] a flashpoint in a controversy that really matters. In explaining why she intended to wear a traditional Muslim hijab over the holiday season in order to symbolize solidarity with her Muslim neighbors, the professor asserted that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Is this true?
The answer to that question depends upon a distinctly Christian and clearly biblical answer to yet another question: Can anyone truly worship the Father while rejecting the Son?
The Christianâs answer to that question must follow the example of Christ. Jesus Himself settled the question when He responded to Jewish leaders who confronted Him after He had said âI am the light of the world.â When they denied Him, Jesus said, âIf you knew me, you would know my Father alsoâ (John 8:19). Later in that same chapter, Jesus used some of the strongest language of His earthly ministry in stating clearly that to deny Him is to deny the Father.
Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God. Christians worship the triune GodâFather, Son and Holy Spiritâand no other god. We know the Father through the Son, and it is solely through Christâs atonement for sin that salvation has come. Salvation comes to those who confess with their lips that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their hearts that God has raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). The New Testament leaves no margin for misunderstanding. To deny the Son is to deny the Father…
NO! Christians worship God… Muslims worship the devil!