Most people seem to not realize that ALL of these Names refer to the very same Lord, the One True God Whom Abraham was the first person to Worship!
We think there is a broader, more complete, perspective that few Christians or Muslims seem to realize.
Notice that Jesus, with a self-imposed Kenosis (amnesia), would never have even realized that he COULD do any Miracles, even though He always could have. Instead, He always felt it necessary to ask the Father to do Miracles that Jesus saw as necessary. As a child, He therefore could never have attracted attention by doing Miracles to impress other children or to cure someone's illness.
Please note that this reasoning meant that Jesus/God Existed before Mary! It is a Christian concept called the Pre-Existence of Jesus. Indeed, Jesus Existed (as God) in Creating everything in Genesis! Non-Christians and even some Christians seem to think that Jesus came into existence at the Virgin Birth by Mary. No, He had long Existed before that, and Mary simply enabled Him to join human society. Virtually ALL modern Theologians agree that Jesus always Existed, even being present at Creation, and certainly far before Mary was ever born.
In the early years of the Christian Church, there were many different opinions regarding Jesus, ALWAYS with the First Commandment in mind. Some people said that Jesus was NOT a God, because that would mean there were two! There were Devout Christians who felt the First Commandment required that Jesus be "an adopted human" (Adoptionism) and there were many Christian groups that argued that He could not have been Divine, or only "somewhat Divine", again because of the First Commandment. There were other early Christians who accepted that Jesus was the One True God, but then didn't see how Jesus would have Suffered on the Cross, or had any human feelings! Church leaders took quite a while to develop a "Trinity concept" that was meant to confirm that there was One True God, but that He was so Powerful that He had the capability of seeming to be more than one "Person". (They also agreed that Jesus was "fully Divine" but also "fully human", a slightly different subject!)
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The result of this is wonderful! If Muslims studied Christianity deeply to realize the truth of the above, they would realize that the Allah of Muhammad actually walked the Earth just 600 years earlier, as Jesus. I have carefully read the entire Koran, and there is NO contradiction to this, of Allah walking the Earth as Jesus, the "One True God" Whom we all believe in!
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