Muslims and Christians Do Not Worship the God of Israel
Same name. Different God. Here's the proof. "לֹא תֵלְכוּן אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים" — "Do not follow other gods" (Deuteronomy 6:14). Why does Moses say "other gods" if there's only one God? Because worshipping a false conception of God is worshipping another god — even if you use His name. If someone worships a "god" with attributes God never revealed at Sinai — a god who becomes flesh, or a god who affirms the Torah in name while contradicting it in substance, commanding what the Torah forbids and forbidding what the Torah commands — they're worshipping an "elohim acher" (another god). Not because that god exists, but because they've created a false conception and are treating it as the real thing. Same name + different attributes = different elohim = the very thing Moses warned about. "All our prophets are your prophets too" — but are they? Solomon: (1 Kings 11:4): "וַיַּטּוּ נָשָׁיו אֶת לְבָבוֹ אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים" Torah says his wives "turned his heart after other gods". Quran says "Solomon did not disbelieve" (2:102). So did he commit idolatry or not? Abraham: Quran says he built the Kaaba with Ishmael (2:127). Torah never mentions Mecca. Ever. The Binding: (Genesis 22:2): "קַח נָא אֶת בִּנְךָ אֶת יְחִידְךָ אֲשֶׁר אָהַבְתָּ אֶת יִצְחָק" Torah says explicitly — "Take your son, your only one, whom you love, Yitzchak" . Islamic tradition says it was Ishmael on the altar. Divorce: (Deuteronomy 24:4): "כִּי תוֹעֵבָה הִוא לִפְנֵי ה׳" Torah says if a divorced woman remarries, her first husband can NEVER take her back — "it is an abomination" . Quran says he CAN — but ONLY AFTER she marries another man (2:230). One calls it abomination, one requires it. these are just some examples of many. Same prophets? Same God? no. These aren't different perspectives. They're direct contradictions — both can't be true. Imagine I write a book about your father. But my version has him born in a different country, married to a different woman, saying things he never said. Would you nod and say 'interesting perspective'? Or would you say "that's not my father."?