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> They all share the same god ...

Except that they don't share the same god.

The Christian God is triune, one God existing in the three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, which the Jews and Muslims both reject.

Further, though Judaism and Christianity agree that the only true creator God, YHWH (or Yahweh/Jehovah according to Christianity), has revealed himself in deeds and words, Islam says that his name is Allah.

And of course, fundamental to Christianity is the acknowledgement of the full humanity /and/ full divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified and resurrected. Judaism and Islam both reject those beliefs, thus we again see a difference on who God is.

These three monotheistic religions each have separate conceptions of God.

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> The Christian God is triune, one God existing in the three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, which the Jews and Muslims both reject.

The Protestant* god. Catholic and Orthodox disagree on that specific phrasing.

https://christianityfaq.com/catholic-protestant-christianity...

As a non-religious person, the differences between the Catholic, Orthodox and various Protestant faiths aren't dissimilar to the differences between them all and Islam and Judaism.

Allah isn't a name in that sense, it's the arabic word that means God, and it's the one that christian arabs use when they talk about God from a christian perspective.

There's a lot of different ideas about what monotheism and God means within those three, highly related, religious families too.

It's very weird to single out islam in this way, seems political rather than historic or religious.

The entire concept of "sameness" doesn't make sense when talking about objects that are unknowable or just non-existent. For example, two persons can describe in different terms a real object (say, a chair): in that case, the object exists independently from its descriptions and the two persons can eventually agree on the fact that there is indeed one object they were both looking at. But for objects that are unknowable or non-existent, it is the description that defines the object- and each description, unless entirely equivalent to the others, defines a different object.

Therefore the idea that Abrahamic religions relate to the same God can only make sense from a perspective of faith.

> [H]is name is Allah.

"Allah" is not a name, it's the Arabic word for "God".

> These three monotheistic religions each have separate conceptions of God.

Right, separate human conceptions of the same God.

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