re: Is the Christian God the same God of Judaism?

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Yes.. from what I understand .. Judaism, Christians, and Muslims have the same God of Abraham. Then after that they all split.

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I think you misunderstand. They all kind of sort of have the same “god” as I explained in a post above in this same thread. It’s the splitting thing that I think you have wrong.

Modern Christians generally claim to be a continuation of Judaism. Christians today generally adopt the Old Testament. They view their religion as a new convent - an extension of Judaism (though most Christians do not understand there were different Judaisms and they don’t understand which one they came out of.).

Muslims believe they are a continuation of Christianity. Which Christianity is the tricky part. They are descended mostly from the apostles Paul was fighting with. Paul wrote that the mosaic law - the Torah - was no longer applicable to Christians. Whoever wrote the gospel of Matthew disagreed with Paul on this matter as he wrote that all Christians had to observe the Torah including not eating pork. Muslims are a continuation of Torah-observing Christians who lived in Arabia.

Galatians 1:7

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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

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Muslims claim that Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem was theirs. They claim that Abraham, Ismael, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus were all prophets of Allah, and that Mohammed is the final prophet. Muslims consider the pre-Mohammed Jews and Christians to be Muslims.

In Hebrew, the singular noun for a generic god was Eloah.

Eloah = Allah in Arabic.

So it’s not like they all held an Abrahamic faith and then split. It’s more like the branches on a tree. First the Jews, then Christians branched off at a point while Jews continued. Then the Muslims branched off one of the Christian branches.