Islam and Other World Religions Allah vs. the God of the Bible
An honest and objective reading of both the Quran and the Bible
reveals a significant clash between the two both in terms of how
to conceptualize God, as well as in their respective depictions
of the behavior of deity. Allah says and does things that the
God of the Bible did not and would not say or do. The Quran’s
representation of the sovereignty of God (like Calvinism)
contradicts the character of God by attributing actions to Him
that are unlike deity. For example, the Quran repeatedly
represents God, on the occasion of the creation of Adam,
requiring the angels/djinn to bow down and worship this first
human. All do so with the exception of Iblis (i.e., Satan), who
refuses to do so on the grounds that Adam was a mere mortal:
Verily We created man of potter’s clay of black mud altered, and
the Jinn did We create aforetime of essential fire. And
(remember) when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am creating
a mortal out of potter’s clay of bla