Akwat Kbrana said:
You keep trying to discredit Islam with an inherent assumption/belief that Christianity is "correct".
Where did you get that idea? Can you find a single sentence of mine in this thread that says anything to that effect? I'm not trying to credit or discredit any religion. My interest is in allowing each religion to speak for itself, rather than forcing them all into a conceptual straightjacket with a priori decrees such as, "These three religions worship the same God." My argument is simply that if you allow each religious community to define its own terms, you will find that their three disparate conceptions of God are incompatible with one another.
Rather than assuming that any particular religion is correct, I think the error is in presuming that none are true (or that it doesn't matter).
It becomes a literary exercise if we observe only how differently each conception is from one another and then declare them "different gods" based on how irreconcilable they appear to be. That is a sterile exercise.
If, on the other hand, we accept the existence of a deity (for the purpose of debate) and inquire whether each religion in question is worshiping that deity, we are required to consider how the conceptions fit with another. To do otherwise delimits God (ie the god concept), a priori. The idea of irreconcilability does matter in terms of whether one is 'doing it right,' but I don't think that's what we're arguing.
Forgive the blasphemous illustration which follows. If someone accepts the gist of the Bible but believes Lucifer is actually the good guy and that Jehovah promulgated a distorted view of events because he's just that evil (ie the true deity is the one perceived as "Satan"). To this end, such a satanist develops all kinds of ideas about what is true and what is false in the bible and supplements it with his own 'revelations.'
That view is not at all reconcilable (in the sense you've been using the word) with Christianity. Worshiping "Satan" is not the same as worshiping "God" but the mere fact that these views are irreconcilable is not evidence that different beings are worshiped or that the satanist believes in a different "Jehovah." It's not like, "oh, that John Smith." A different perception of a being does not mean it is in fact a different being. That is the error I see in your approach.
georgec has a better grasp on historical and textual elements than I do. As he points out, the religions in question reference the same historical events and revelations.