Jews, Christains and Muslims believe in the same God, they just have a different view of his Nature.
100% right. And they just, even within each major group, have different views on what this god requires.
Judaism is built on the god of Abraham, the god of the Torah, with the core belief being that Jews were the chosen people and had to live by a vast set of rules.
Christianity was built on the very same god, with the additional belief that Jesus was a part of that god and now everyone who believed in Jesus could become chosen too. At the same time it threw out the Jewish rules for living.
Finally, Islam was built on those very same foundations around 600 years after Christianity began, with the Qur'an saying that Mohammed was a prophet who worked to get people back to the true teachings of Christianity. Hence the Qur'an acknowledges all of the Jewish and Christian history, except it turfs out the idea that Jesus was god, and goes back to the god of Abraham rather than the triune god of Christianity.
Okay, so with that out of the way, this is why I have a problem with the whole set-up. Firstly, the chosen people of god concept of Judaism, upon which this is all based. From what we know now of the globe and its fascinating aray of cultures and people, a so-called chosen people idea makes absolutely no sense, although I can see how it served well to unify Jewish tribes living in hostile conditions and trying to stay united and better their lives.
Secondly, the idea of Jesus the Christ dying for our sins. I simply don't understand this. Whether he was only a man or whether he was part of god, he only died for three days according to Christian theology. Day 4.... he was alive and kicking.
How does that pay a price for the sins of everyone who has ever lived? I just don't get the equation.
Say my TV isn't working, and then a very nice TV repairman, a good and honest man who gives free training to other young repairmen, gets hit by a car outside my house......... and goes into a coma for three days. Still my TV doesn't work but one day it may work, or maybe I twiddle some wires and suddenly it does work. Perhaps I use the notes some of his students wrote to feel confident that my TV is still fixable.
So when he comes out of his 3 day coma I rush over to the hospital and thank him profusely, and pay him, for fixing my TV. How can my TV, no matter what state it is in, possibly be connected to the good TV repairman being in an accident outside my house?
Sorry to any Christians that this analogy may offend, but I really truly don't understand the whole Christ Died For Your Sins story. That's my problem with the Christian belief system -- the very illogical core of it.
