I know. What I meant to say is that the Christian's understanding of God is different from what Muslims have of Allah. The Christian God is not the same as the Allah of Mecca and they were never thought to be alike.
A Muslim will tell you that Allah is not a Trinity so how can it be same deity as the Christian God? You either believe in a Trinity or you don't, but one of the concepts is in error.
Both Christians and Muslims are deluding themselves if they claim that they believe in the same god. Besides, if they really did, Christians would not be persecuted by Muslims as they have been for 13 centuries.
I know this from personal experience; I am a Christian who was born and lived in Muslim countries because my father was in the oil business.
I know, but we apply the word Allah to the Christian understanding of God. Having read certain Gnostic texts, I see a strong degree of correlation between Islam and Gnosticism.
For example, the Qu'ran borrows from the Gnostic apocrphya regarding certain elements of Jesus early life, not to mention what they say about Mary.
Also, like the Gnostic gospels, the Qur'an is a listing of sayings by Muhammad rather than a narrative.