| Christians, Jews, and Muslims are all monotheists, who believe that there is only one God. But you are correct in saying that only Christians worship the Triune God. Though the term "Triune God" or "Trinity" is not found in the Bible, it does describe for us the way God reveals himself in the Bible. The Bible teaches that there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4), but a God who has revealed himself in three distinct persons ("the Father,…the Son,…the Holy Spirit," Matthew 28:19), each of whom is God. Christians worship the three-in-one God the Bible reveals to us. Neither the Jewish nor Muslim religion accepts the divinity of Christ (Colossians 2:9) or the fact that the Holy Spirit is a personal being. Therefore, they are not worshiping different manifestations of the same God whom Christians worship. There is another key distinction between the Jewish and Muslim religion on the one hand and the Christian religion on the other. The god of the Jewish or Muslim religion requires that salvation must be earned, while only the Triune God of the Bible tells us that salvation is a gift (John 3:16, "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son"), a gift that becomes ours, not by works, but through faith in Jesus ("…that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"). This makes both Jews and Muslims, as well as members of all religions and cults that deny the Triune God, proper objects of Christian evangelism. Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
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