We weren’t discussing Bahai’s, trinitarians, or Muslims; we were talking about the Jews, specifically, and JW’s as Christians.Judaism never accepted the notion that God could have a son...still less a human one...before, during and after the emergence of Christianity such an idea would have been heretical to Judaism. That is not merely a different way of worshipping...it is entirely incompatible concept of deity.
That's why the claim that Jesus was God's son was so shocking...a Jew claiming to be God's son...there was nothing that could have confronted their notion of deity more profoundly than that. They could barely get their theological heads around it.
And I haven't even got to the trinity yet...do JWs worship the same God as their mainstream Christian counterparts? From the JW perspective, is the trinitarian apostasy really just another way of worshipping the same and "only true" God? (John 17:3)
I don't think so...I see at least three distinct and mutually exclusive concepts of God in the respective traditions of Judaism, mainstream Christianity and Christian unitarianism such as that of JWs. And we are still talking only about the Gods of Biblical traditions.
Are Muslims also worshipping the same God in a different way...
What about the God of the Ba'hai faith with its "manifestations" - they would really like to hear that you think they're worshipping the same God in different way - but I reckon theirs is yet another manifestly different concept of deity than any of the traditions they have attempted to syncretize...
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And I meant to clarify those differing ways: comparing their way of worshipping Yahweh, through animal sacrifices required by the Mosaic Law, with the different path that Jesus was about to inaugurate: through faith in His sacrifice.
Different ways to worship Yahweh, yes…. But it’s still Yahweh.
I only know of 2 religions that worship Yahweh / Jehovah : Jews/Israelites, and JW’s.
The other religions don’t. Muslims worship Allah, & trinitarians worship Jesus. I’ve never heard a Bahai speak of worshipping Yahweh.
Why would you even bring them up?