We do not worship the same God!

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our 24 God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.” 18:17 The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good. 18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. 18:19 I will personally hold responsible 25 anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet 26 speaks in my name.
18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized 27 him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. 18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, 28 ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ 29 – 18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my 30 name and the prediction 31 is not fulfilled, 32 then I have 33 not spoken it; 34 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
(Deuteronomy 18:15-22)

I went to see a guest speaker yesterday about the relationship between Christianity and Islam, and Jesus and the prophets and Islam, in particular. As you can imagine, much of the time was spent explaining the validity of Islam and how strongly it contrasts with the media's image of what it represents. One of the bible verses that was referenced was this one. The speaker drew attention to the word 'brethren' (verse 15), which is to represent the 'brother lineage of Ishmael'. From this lineage the speaker stated that God is referring to Muhammed, not who we would of course believe to be Jesus. He then went on to cross reference Act 3:22:

Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey 63 him in everything he tells you. 64 3:23 Every person 65 who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed 66 from the people.’

From this 'Arab' side of Abraham, Muhammed is purported to come, who of course is the end all-be all prophet to Muslims. The speaker also went on to say that earlier editions of the bible state that God never said 'His begotten', along with many other translational changes, all of which deserve further mention.

What was most important to realize for me is that Islam is no different than buddhism, hinduism, shinto, or even 'Christian' crusaders that killed thousands in the 11th and 12th centuries, as well as the Spanish Inquisition. Every one of them distorts the truth, some to a greater degree, but all take Christ out of the equation. And John tells us "Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?" (John 1:22). Muslims do not believe in the idea of original sin, reject completely the idea of the Holy Trinity, and do not believe crucifixion has the power to save. The speaker went on to say that more Muslims read the Quran in one day, then people read the bible in 1 year! I don't know if that is completely true, but one thing he said I definitely do believe: in 20-30 years Muslims will outnumber Christians in America. Unless we take the great Commission seriously, and pray for the love of the Lord to consume our lives, I'm afraid he may be right.