Is the concept of God the same in all religions?As muslims,what do you think about it?

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A: I don't even think that the concept of God stays the same across the same religion. Take, for example, Christianity. The Christian God is, in traditional theology, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent. Yet, some theologians consider the Christian God divinely simple, jealous, necessary, the sum of all predicates, etc. So, of course, even just jealousy and omnibenevolence contradict one another, and these theologians disagree on their concept of God. Furthermore, compare the Bible to the theological conception of God. God does not appear to omnipresent, both in the human form of Jesus, and even as an intangible God. Nor does he appear to be all-loving, as he does not hesitate to play games with people, or kill them, as well as a series of other such things. Nor does the bible mention any of the specific attributes granted to God by the classic theologians. We see the the theologians of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religions all throw around these words in disagreement. Disagreement not only against the other faiths, but against others in their own faith. We do, at least, see the same words often popping up in these three religions. Next, the concept of God can vary greatly depending on what you are even considering 'God,' or 'a God.' If we are counting polytheistic religions, we get into a whole other ballpark of what it can mean to be a God. These concepts go as far down as simply being a very powerful being, and as high as being the ultimate all-powerful creator of the universe. Next, consider gnosticism, a early branch of Christianity. The Gnostics looked around to see an imperfect world, and so they saw their God as imperfect. Their God was the demiurge, often he is even given the name Yahweh. Sometimes the demiurge is portrayed as evil, and other times good-intentioned but imperfect. Either way, it was he who created this world, and he who included all its imperfections. The demiurge has sort of a partner God that embodies good, and together they make up the supreme being. And yet, this supreme being has nothing to do with us directly, since it was the demiurge alone who made us. A popular modern example of a vastly different conception of God is Hinduism, and one begins to wonder whether Hinduism is polytheistic or monotheistic--these things get complicated! So, no, I think it can plainly be seen that the concept of God is not the same in all religions.

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