Do Christians, Muslims and Jews worship the same God?

[SecularMotion]

(CNN) – Sunni and Shia Muslims are killing each other in several nations, most notably in Syria's escalating civil war.

Coptic Christians churches are being torched in Egypt.

In Israel, what passes for peace talks has restarted after years of murder and brutality.

Religion is a common thread in each conflict. But why? Don’t these folks worship the same deity?

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/01/do-christians-muslims-and-jews-worship-the-same-god/comment-page-39/

[edhopper]

1. Well if there really is just one God

then by default they are all worshiping the same God. And since we aren't suppose to bother with the difference that they claim is the essential truth to God, we should just ignore the conflicting differences.
And their being only one God according to these religions, obviously God does not care that his most fervent followers kill each other over their belief in him and doesn't feel the need to stop it.

Now you might get some answers of the "blind men and the camel" category, but that doesn't speak to God's roll in all this.

[on point]

2. All branches on the same tree. Other minor branches like orthodox Protestant

Sunni Shia etc are minor twigs

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Of course. Shekels, dollars and Riyals are mutually interchangable.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. No. Christians don't even worship the same Christian God or Gods.

See, e.g.,
America's Four Gods: What We Say About God-and What That Says About Us
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Four-Gods-about-God--/dp/B007SRWAR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378133194&sr=8-1&keywords=America%27s+Four+Gods%3A+What+We+Say+About+God-and+What+That+Says+About+Us

There is, as explained by the authors, the Authoritative God, the Benevolent God, the Critical God, and the Distant God.

[rug]

5. Yes but many of them don't realizize it.

Monotheism is monotheism. If there is one God. It is the same. The variance is human understanding and description of the same one God.

What's going on in the Middle East is geopolitics and economic struggles. For centuries, with the same religions as now, there was relative peace. Then oil was discovered and the craggy gaze of capital slowly turned.

[hrmjustin]

6. Yes we do.

[cbayer]

7. Tribalism is more complex than who believes in what god.

The argument seems hollow and solves nothing, imo.

If there is a god or gods, maybe he/she/it presents itself differently to different people or populations. Perhaps he/she/it never presents itself to some people at all.

No one will ever know, and the argument about whether the major faiths worship the same god or not seems purely academic.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. "No one will ever know" Error.

Presumes that no supernatural entity will ever clearly reveal itself to humanity in the future, and presumes humanity will never be able to rule out the supernatural at all.

[cbayer]

14. Technically you may be correct, but I don't expect any answers in my lifetime.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. A much more fair framing of scope and scale.

[dimbear]

8. Use a little logic. There is no Santa Claus. There is no Easter Bunny. Ergo, Santa Claus and the

Easter Bunny are the same thing. All the empty sets are identical.

[2ndAmForComputers]

9. And that's why I like math.

It's subversive.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Catholics and Protestants used to kill each other over what edition of bible would be

taught in schools.

I don't think 'same team' matters one whit.

[hrmjustin]

12. Yes we do have that ugly history but I still believe that Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe in

the same God.

[moobu2]

13. Islam and Christianity evolved from Judaism

So no they don't worship the same God because there's no such things as Gods, but they would if there were.

[Still Blue in PDX]

16. It's been so many years that I believed it that I don't remember chapter and verse, BUT:

Somewhere in the gospel of John, and maybe more than once, Jesus said it was his way or no way. Those are the words that the "true" (i.e., fundamentalist) Christians hang onto.

[Marrah_G]

17. yes

But that never stopped them from killing each other over who worships the correct way. Even within each of the three there are divisions and then divisions within those divisions.