Dr. John Bergsma

He says, what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.

So they are without excuse for, although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him.

So Paul is saying that the primitive notion that most human cultures had of a creator being who is majestic, who had brought all things into existence, that that is the same God that we worship, even though their notions about him were confused or rather limited.

So in the same way, in that sense, we can say, yeah, we worship the same God as the Muslims.

Yeah, not everything that Muslims believe about God is wrong.

They believe many true things about the one creator God, that he is one, that he created all things, that he has revealed himself to mankind, that he's gonna judge the world.

In fact, that he's gonna judge the world through Jesus.

People don't realize this, but Muslims don't believe that Muhammad is gonna come back and judge humanity.

They believe Jesus is gonna come back and judge humanity.

So Jesus has an important role in Islam

And in the Quran, Jesus is called the word of God.

So there's many true things that they believe about God and that we can affirm with them.

So, you know, if you have those understandings of the creator God, you're a little bit closer to the truth than if you believe in 50 promiscuous, you know, river deities or something like this.

They believe in the same God?

Yeah, I think that's possible.

What you mean by God is a completely other being.

Yeah.

Well, it's up to the church to decide what that line is, but the description of God that you just gave was a description of God that he's not the creator and he's not the ground of all being, and he's not the necessary being.

So I think that's an important criteria there.

What we mean by God is the necessary being, and the Muslims mean by God that as well, okay?