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RE: The Early Schools of Indian Buddhism
Buddhism believes there are many supernatural beings and Gods including the Christian and Muslim's Gods are subject to karma and eventually will wear out their good karma and die, most will take rebirth in human form unless they are a particularly violent hateful god and fall into the hell realms. The world human's live in is called the desire realm. If you think about it, every action we take, ever thought we have and feeling we feel is fueled by desire; this is why the place we inhabit is called the desire realm.
there is little fundamental difference between Muslim and Buddhist beliefs, god in Muslim belief is a Substance (immortal), never dead and never born again, they take the excuse that if God were born there will arise a further question, who gave birth to mother god, and so on, thus taking the conclusion that god is not born
I don't follow all the Buddhist beliefs, although I do believe there are beings much like you and me that don't have a corporeal body, our senses cannot pick up their energy because it is so subtle. I think the God of Muslims, Christians, Jewish and even the religion of Woton (Odinism), even Buddhism Buddha Nature (the seed, the potential of Buddhahood) is pointing to what is not a thing, it is not one or many and there is no way humans can honestly know what is not a thing. However, we can have insight into this, and that is metaphysical and esoteric teachings take us. Very few people can go beyond the world of things because it cannot be grasped.
Buddhist do no deny the Gods; most arguments are aimed at a God creating humans. Buddhist arguments seem to think Gods that think they create life are crazy...
I don't go into these arguments because they do not help me with my practice and the arguments hurt people's feelings and may cause them to doubt. I don't want to cause anyone to question their religion.