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Sorry, I was focusing too much on the point I was trying to make that I might have not worded it correctly. No mainstream Muslim scholar would accept the trinity, or even the divinity of Jesus Christ; but the continuity of monotheistic worship and the identity of the entity being worshipped would crucially be viewed as unchanged (though worshipped in a way that they would undeniably find wrong).

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Outside of the sliver of people that research religion that remain religious, I absolutely know many religious people who have no concept of the relationship between other religions and how they would have the same deity involved. From my experience this would be most people, I don't know what your experience is nor do I have a quantitive study on this. I have talked to many people that would find this entire conversation alien and also offensive, just from their own lack of exposure. Even the idea of verifying this or merely opening the holy books to see that many of the chapters and stories are the same would be sacrilegious to them.

I definitely think that’s true of most people that unquestioningly follow what they’ve been raised/told, regardless of what it is they actually believe (and not just when it comes to religion).

> Outside of the sliver of people that research religion that remain religious...

I come from the rural area of a developing Muslim country (Bangladesh), most people around me didn't have much secular or religious education, and yet I think absolutely everyone around me knew Islam is a continuation of Christianity.

The idea is that current generation of Christians have lost their way (and one of their greatest sins is worshipping Jesus), that's why God had to reveal Islam, but the "true Christians" of past were righteous and worshipped the same God as ours.

I think you're not aware of how big a deal is shirk- the idea of attributing God-like power to humans- is in (Sunni-) Islam.

I’m not aware, this is really interesting to me

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