Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

The Christian Century | April 20, 2004| | Copyright

IN I KINGS 18, the prophet Elijah, confronted with widespread defection to Baal among his countrymen, poses a stark challenge: "If the LORD [the conventional English rendering of the four-letter Hebrew name of the Cod of Israel] is God, follow Him; and if Baal, follow him!" When the people refuse to commit themselves, Elijah proposes an empirical test, which, despite the best efforts of Baal's own prophets, the Canaanite deity fails, and the LORD alone passes. The people shout out the obvious lesson: "The LORD--He is God! The LORD--He is God!"

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