Not That God, That God

In the quran, it is recorded that mohammed, after he was convinced he was a prophet, went to a jewish group to proclaim that he was a prophet sent by their mutual god.

They asked him to give the name of their god.

Of course, he didn't know, so they didn't accept him as a prophet.

Today, its very common for believers to use the generic title... God... for Yahweh.

Although there is technically nothing wrong with that, after all... Yahweh is God, the problem is that there are indeed many gods.

In the bible, when dealing with other gods, people define the one true God so there could be no confusion as to who was being referred to.

Many muslims will say that they worship the same god the christians worship.

They will say that the term allah, means god.

However, if you say that Jesus is the God that christians worship, they realise very quickly that we don't worship the same god at all.

The fact that their jesus is not the one in the bible is irrelevant as saying that Jesus is God shows the stark difference in our beliefs.

However, if you say that Jesus is God to a jehovah's witness (jw), they will agree.

Obviously they don't believe He's
God in the sense that we do, so we have to define Him in a different way by saying He is the eternal God. No God was before Him and there is none after Him.

You see, we've become too comfortable with the generic term, God.

We've forgotten how to describe our God. We've forgotten that He's describe as the God of gods. That all throughout the bible He gives us ways to describe Him that would separate Him from all other false gods.

It's similar to asking if someone is christian, them answering with a yes, and then leaving them alone without giving the gospel.

There are ways to identify a real christian, just as there are ways to describe the true God, the I AM.

How are describing the God of gods?

Are you so vague that people can mistake some random idol for Yahweh?

Do you have trouble distinguishing between Jehovah and allah?

Adonai invites you to get to know Him.

He didn't prepare a historical record of His dealings with men for over 4,000 years in order for us to be ignorant.