By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

I was returning to the Seattle airport from a weekend of ministry when the pastor of the church I had just left called and said my wife was desperately trying to get in touch with me. I called and heard her sobbing. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Steve’s dead!” was her heartbreaking response.

It was a message no parent ever wants to hear. I was speechless in disbelief. Steve is the younger of our two sons: he was forty-four years old, with a wife, Sandy, and three sons of his own. Longer story short, Steve drowned while successfully rescuing his middle son, Benjamin, from certain death in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California. [Read more…]

By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

In our flagship FaithSearch Discovery presentation we teach that these three Abrahamic faiths share in common the view that God is both an infinite and a personal being. Does it follow from this that these faiths all worship the same God, each with a different name?

First, the Bible makes it clear that there is only one God:  “‘You are my witnesses’ declares the Lord…‘understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me’” (Isaiah 43:10). Thus, if Jews and Muslims do not worship the same God, they worship none at all!

Regarding Islam, Allah as revealed in the Koran cannot be the same as Yahweh in the Bible: each has quite different attributes. [Read more…]