# God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-of-the-jews-christians-and-muslims/184248>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 25, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-of-the-jews-christians-and-muslims/184248 "2003-06-25T07:12:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-of-the-jews-christians-and-muslims/184248/21 "2003-06-25T20:20:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \*  
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> It was pretty clear to the people discussing it that Muslims and Jews worshiped the same God, but it was less clear that Christians and Muslims did.  
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And that was before the Protestant Reformation. Now that there are several branches of Christianity that run the gamut from strict Unitarians to strict Trinitarians it is indeed much less clear.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-of-the-jews-christians-and-muslims/184248/22 "2003-06-25T20:59:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by flonks \*  
> \*\*I am educated catholic but I do believe in reincarnation. My wife is Muslim, and in contrast to many other muslims she does believe in reincarnation and says she does so because of the coran. Other muslims tell me that reincarnation is incompatible with Islam. \*\*

Have no fear. Both the Jews and Christ preached about reincarnation. Until the council of Niccea in AD 553, Reincarnation was official Christian dogma. The removal began around the same time the church started charging for sin removal.  
[http://reluctant-messenger.com/origen8.html](http://reluctant-messenger.com/origen8.html)

The Jewish Kabbalah also contains lots of information on Reincarnation.

Google up ‘Christianity and Reincarnation’ or ‘Kaballah and Reincarnation’ and you’ll get lots of sources and perspectives.

FYI: The folloers of the B’Hai and of Meher Baba believe that all religions are ‘true’ and all the same god. This same god has sent down messengers, or incarnations of god, to various cultures at different times - including: Zoroaster, Ram, kristna, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. Abraham, Moses, and other profits are referred to as minor-incarnations of God.

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