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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 2609920" data-attributes="member: 35049">God and creation in IslamThe other great monotheistic religion of the world, Islam, was founded by the prophet Muhammad at the beginning of the sixth century AD. The god of Islam, Allah, is presented in the Quran as an eternal being, transcendent and almighty. In the 112th Surah it is stated:Say, He is God, the One!God, the eternally Besought of all!He neither begets nor was begotten.And there is none comparable unto Him.Allah seems to have the same attributes as God the Father of the Old Testament, since the influence of the Old Testament on the Quran is more than probable. For more information on this topic one can follow these links:"The Bible and the Quran" - An Historical Comparison (manuscript, documentary and archaeological analysis)"The Textual history of the Quran and the Bible", by John Gilchrist.The Triune God of Christianity is considered to be a heresy, both in Judaism and Islam, a threat to monotheism. Therefore, Allah cannot be the same as God the Father of the Christian Trinity, since Allah says that belief in the Trinity is one of the worst possible heresies and sins:Surely, unbelievers are those who said, "Allah is the third of the three [in a Trinity]". But there is no god but One God. And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the unbelievers among them (Quran 5,73).   ConclusionThe world's religions hold very different views on Ultimate Reality. More than merely different, they are irreconcilable one with another. Indeed, the impersonal Brahman of the Upanishads, who balances between his manifested state and unmanifestation, or the lack of any transcendental being, as stated by Theravada Buddhism, are positions that cannot be reconciled with the personal God of the monotheistic religions. In fact, we can witness irreconcilable positions even among the many branches of Hinduism (remember the gods of the Vedas, the Brahman of Vedanta, Vishnu of the theistic movements founded by Ramanuja and Madhva, and Ishvara of the Yoga darshana). On the other hand, even the three great monotheistic religions of the world state irreconcilable positions concerning the nature of the personal God. He must be either tri-personal (the triune God of Christianity), or mono-personal (as in Judaism and Islam).</blockquote>

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