Once one believes that God exists, it is not at all surprising that one would ask why we should believe in the Christian God instead of some other. For the purposes of our investigation in this series, we will measure the Christian notion of God against arguably Christianity’s strongest competitor in the contemporary theistic market: Allah, the God of Islam. We will engage in a kind of divine triathlon, looking at three aspects of our normal awareness as points of comparison: the highly relational and intricate created order, the existence of the moral law, and the problem of evil. We seek to discover which God best explains what seems so strongly given to us in our experience concerning these three aspects of our world. That is, given the choice between these two concepts of God, we seek to discern, by means of an inference to the best explanation, which concept of God better accounts for the way the world is. We begin with a look at the created order.

If we assume that there is very good reason to believe that the vast, highly relational, and intricately designed world in which we find ourselves came to be as the result of the free choice of a supernatural, personal cause, then, between the Christian God and Allah, which divine person would be more likely to bring this kind of world into existence? The God of Islam seems at first glance to be a very good candidate. Along with orthodox Christians and orthodox Jews, devout Muslims agree that Allah is the sovereign, all-powerful, immaterial, eternally self-existent Creator of all that there is, and that he is distinct from the material universe. Perhaps then we should declare a tie between Allah and the God of the Bible.

Before we rush to judgment, however, we should note that there is a critical difference between the two concepts of God. Islam jealously preserves the absolute unity of Allah. This goes beyond proclaiming that Allah is the only God, insisting in addition that he is himself a singularity, an internal unity without differentiation, what philosophy would call a monad, that is, something simple, indivisible, and elementary. Devout Muslims are militantly Unitarian in their theology of God and call the harshest judgment upon those who suggest that any diversity exists within him.

As noble as this might sound on the surface, this notion of God is problematic as we seek to understand why there is a material universe consisting of relational beings at all. We live in a universe that suggests a person beyond it that is not only powerful and intelligent, but apparently greatly interested in creating something in the first place. What is it within the God of Islam that would motivate such an interest? Allah is internally isolated. There is nothing within his nature that would suggest an inclination toward relationship, yet such an inclination would seem essential to motivate reaching outside oneself to create. Allah is a fully actualized singularity, comfortable and undistrubed, floating about eternally in timeless space. What within him compels him to reach beyond himself? The Muslim has no answer beyond the assertion that Allah is all powerful and he can do what he wants. Perhaps, but what within him would provoke him to get out of his divine hammock and engage in the work of creation?
           
Christianity, seems to have a better answer. Unlike Allah, the God of the Bible is inherently relational, not isolated. He is within his very nature fundamentally a community of three co-essential persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Furthermore, if God is internally fundamentally relational, then it is reasonable to expect that he would be resourcefully better equipped and naturally more motivated than Allah to move outside of himself and create, not just any old world, but this particular one in which he takes an intense and active interest. Quite simply, the God of Christianity is more likely to be an extrovert, while the God of Islam is more likely to be an introvert, and less likely to create at all, let alone to create a world bristling with relational activity with which he passionately seeks to continually interact.

Now a Muslim might respond that Allah is a lonely God, so he creates in order to fulfill a personal need. But this presumes a deficiency in Allah, a concession that I am sure the Muslim would not be willing to make. The Christian Trinitarian God, on the other hand, having enjoyed intimate community from eternity past, reaches beyond himself in a creative act of love to share these joys with persons which he forms in his image. He does so not out of any lack, but out of his fullness. So of our two contenders, I would argue that in the category of the nature of the created order, the God of the Bible gets the edge. The Trinitarian God seems to provide a better explanation for the existence of the world, its relational nature, and its intricate design. We consider the category of the moral law in out next entry.

"Demolishing The Falsehood Of Christianity And Its Bible":
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The thread state awkwardly enough with silly assumptions about what the Muslims say about Allah. Anyone who wishes to understand Islam will pick up the Quran and read it and if he wishes the hadith too, the ones that are in agreement with the Quran.

The thread author was so shy to mention the name of the Christian God. I guess he does not know it, among all the names the christians and their fathers, the Jews listed, none seem to be a real name, except what we heard from the accented Jesus on the alleged cross.

Incidentally, that very name is so close to Allah as it heard, and far away from I Am, Yahweh, Jehovah, etc.

Before Allah created this world and Adam as the last in what it contains, Angels were already created, so were the jinns, a group from which Iblis [lanatUllah], who later was renamed Satan. This nations or world was jinns was destroyed because of their evil deeds and bloodshed.


Only an incompetent soul will assume that God has to be lonely and wanting something to do for Him to engage in creation. Creation and Judgment and in between the two, guidance are parts of the unique roles of God. No one shares any of these with Him.


And in all honesty, I was looking forward to a mention of the names of the Persons in the Trinity, the author of the thread failed, again. I am of the opinion that the christians always disappoint me in this aspect is that they can give the name of the so called god the son, and god the father. But they can not give the name of god the ghost to anyone.

Reason is that he is a made up object, just like the say there is a son for God and there is a Father role that God fulfills , yet without a consort. Each of these is a lie.