Same God . . . .

[Amica]

I am a Muslim and I believe God is One and Only Creator. He said it Himself in the Old Testament and the Qur'an that He is One and that there is no other God but him.
Allah in Arabic means God. However, those who hated Islam in the wake of Qur'anic interrpreting continued to write in the translations The Almighty's Holy Attribute: Allah, as if meant to show that this is some other diety, other than God.
This Holy Name of God simply means: The God. It cannot be pluralized and it does not have male or female origins (I think Arabic speaking people would be better to explain this). For this reason, to show their belief in Oness of God, Muslims use this Holy Name to refer to Him, The God.
Some Christians do not believe in the same God of Israel or the Qur'an, because they claim Jesus was a god. Obviously Jews and Muslims cannot believe that Jesus, a human being, can be a god or son of a god.
Jesus was conceived in a miroculous way, but that does not mean he is divine. If anything, the first man, Adam p.b.u.h., would be a better candidate for divinity (if a human being can ever be divine, which I do not believe) because Adam p.b.u.h. did not have a human father or mother. God simply said: Be! and he was.
In fact, God in the Old Testament and in the Qur'an seems to be able to create creatures with only saying: "Be!" and than it is.

[Amica]

Also,
the old Arabs were descendants of Ishmael, one of the sons of Abraham. Ishmael believed in the God of Abraham. Hence the Arabic awareness of One God, which they called the High God. Over the times they grew to believe that they cannot be personally in contact with Him and invented idols. When Islam came this was abolished with the message that God sees, hears and knows everything and that a person does not need a mediator to be in contact with God The Merciful.
Muhammad's p.b.u.h. message meant to have Arabs go back to the faith of Abraham. Old Arabs believed that their faith was abrahamic faith as it was and with Muhammad saying that they worship in a wrong way, they considered it blasphemous.
This post is just to explain that Allah was not an old idol of the ancient Arabs, but a Concept that had existed since Ishmael that the ancient Arabs changed into something it was not.

[I, Brian]

On the issue of Same God, I posted a rather old short article on the main site a while ago:

http://www.comparative-religion.com/...arable_sea.php

I see differences in perception of Divinity as primarily arising from viewing divinity through both cultural and personal lenses, which create an image that makes most sense only if it relates to cultural and personal biases and schema.

Of course, some people may disagree - simply my perception.

[path_of_one]

That is my perception as well, Brian.