YHWH ALLAH

Many Christians accept the Muslim claim that we both worship the same God. They claim that they call him Allah, while we call him God. It is not unusual to hear Christian leaders make such statements. Bible societies have even gone so far as to use the name Allah in the Bibles they produce for Arab Christians.

Second, if you read the Qur'an's description of Allah, and read the Bible's description of God, it becomes obvious you are reading about two different persons. Allah orders his followers to kill those who deny Islam, while God instructs us to love our enemies. Allah had no son while God sent His Son to die for sinful men. Allah is "unknowable" while God seeks a personal relationship with His creation, man.

The spirit behind Islam is an entirely different spirit... a spirit that denies the deity of Jesus Christ. Any Christian who accepts the notion that Allah is God creates an impossible situation. Since the Qur'an contains our only revelation about Allah, they will be forced to look there as their authority. The Qur'an specifically denies the deity of Christ! All Christian witness ends right there.

 

Allah is about as much the God of the Bible as the golden calf the Israelites made in the book of Exodus. Go to: www.carm.org/islam.htm
A good sight to look at all of the beliefs of Islam.

 

Jacob---Brother!

Answer the question

He who denies the Son(Jesus) denies who also?


Brother David

 

As far as the set of letters a-l-l-a-h -- they could refer to the true God, and Arab Christians could use that word appropriately, just as we use "God" without referring to Zues, Apollos, etc, who are also called "god." But a muslim does not use them in that way. He uses them to refer to a non-existent God. He rejects the deity of Christ who is God. Any person who uses any term for God without accepting Jesus Christ as God is not worshipping God.

 

You can correct me here if you wish, but "ALLAH" is not the term for God even in Arabic. "ALLAH" is a personal name of God in Arabic. There is a difference. Calling on God with that name means you call on the wrong god, a non god. If I asked a Muslim who is God they would say "ALLAH" If I asked a Christian who is God they might say Jehovah, YHWH, The I Am, Jesus and so on.

The question you asked is not correcxt. I know of no Christian who believes that because a Muslim calls their god ALLAH that God loses power. What we say is that the Muslim never receives the power of God since they call on the wrong god or false god. The fact that they make many of the same assertions about their god as does the calims of the bible about the true God makes no diffeence. They have another god which is no god at all.

I am assuming, and you can correct me is needed, that yo are suggesting that it makes no difference what a person calls God as long as that person sees Him as the one and true God. That would be incorrect. The name of God refrects his true being, and the name of the muslim god reflects a false god who has no power.

 

The issue is whether or not a person believes Jesus is the Son! If you ask a Lebanese Christian "keefek entah" - how are you, he/she will likely respond "nish chra'llah" - fine thank God!

If a CHRISTIAN calls God Allah so what? Our word "God" is no closer to YHWH than is Allah. The issue is whether or not the person is a Christian.

 

Jacob, I think you are confusing a semantic issue with a theologoical issue. I am saying all this to try to help you out here and answer your questions.

It is not so much the name of God in this case -- yes, different languages have different names -- but the concept of who that God is. A French person can say Dieu (French for God) or a German can say "Gott" but if they mean the God of Islam, it isn't the true living God. If they mean the God of the Unification Church, it isn't the true God.

The pagans who rejected the true God had other gods. Non-Christians who reject the God of the Bible, that is, the Triniterian God who sent His son Jesus to die for our sins, are rejecting God no matter what they may call him.

Muslims are calling on a false god. As Blackbird so aptly put it, if one rejects Christ, one rejects the true God.

Islam was started several hundred years after Christ, but it rejects Christ as the Son of God and as the Savior. This is what Jesus said to people who believed in God but rejected Christ:

The God of Islam is not the God of the Bible, as has been pointed out here by others. The Islamic God bears no resemblance to the Biblical God.

 

Would Elijah have used the the term "Ba-al" to represent God if he had gone to Tyre to witness to Jezebel's family? Allah is not just a word, it's a different name for a different god.

 

Without a doubt Muslims will say that Allah IS the God of the bible; thus they in a sense lay claim to the patriarchal heritage. To me this is neither here nor there - they do not KNOW Him. If they think their "God" is the same as my God then they severely mischaracterized God.

Now the middle eastern Christian is a different issue. If he/she calls God "allah" or Jesus "ay EE sah" so what? There is nothing wrong with that. We must realize that our English words are just as peculiar compared to the original names. Now there are probably plenty "plank in the eye" Pharisaical, xenophobic believers who will raise a big objection to this - but then that's just human nature!

What would Paul say if he could hear some of us talk! Jaysus Chraaahst the Lowaard - now that sounds Jewish!

 

Muslims have the wrong god. he is only found in Jesus Christ.

 

He who denies the Son---denies the Father!

Muslim religion and Islam is anti-Christ!

 

It is not a question of God not being God, but the fact that the muslim religion do not have the God of the bible. Yes they claim to hav ethe God of abraham, but they also change His character to fit their own desires making the one they have not the God of the bible. The only way to the God of Abraham is through Jesus, not by calling on Allah.