Allah and God

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My question is"is Allah the same as the Jewish and the Christian God"?
 
One and the same. ‘‘Allah’’ Is the Arabic word for God and was used to name the Lord by Arabic Christians and Jews long before the advent of Islam. In Malta, where the language has been influenced by Arabic, the Catholics call God Alla.

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Here is a long thread on this topic. forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=80349

Here is a snippet from Lumen Gentium (similar to passage in catechism)…
  1. Finally, those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways. There is, first, that people to which the covenants and promises were made, and from which Christ was born according to the flesh (cf. Rom. 9:4-5): in view of the divine choice, they are a people most dear for the sake of the fathers, for the gifts of God are without repentance (cf. Rom. 11:29). But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Moslems: these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.
And Paul stated in Acts 17:23 For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God. What therefore you worship, without knowing it, that I preach to you

There seem to be two camps on this.
  1. The first follows St. Paul’s lead and says if someone worships one god who they acknowledge to be the All-powerful Creator and since we believe there is indeed only One God, they must also be worshipping The One God. This same camp would say that Muslims are ignorant of the fullness of truth and their image of God is very skewed, but still the One Creator of all.
  2. The second camp looks at the attributes of the professed deity and compares them with the attributes of our God and concludes that they must not be the same.
Who is correct? Only God knows. Do the current Muslims believe they are worshipping the One God Creator of all, the God of Abraham? They do believe so. That is what they profess. From God’s perspective (dare I presume) that may be the God’s way of drawing good (muslims worshipping Him) out of evil (Mohammed inventing the Quran after being visited by, perhaps, a demon calling himself Gabriel). This is an oversimplification, but we do not know the mind of God. We simply don’t know the extent of God’s mercy.

The following was cut and paste from someone else, but I think it sums up nicely.

Again, for clarification. Muslims believe in the creator of this world, which happens to be One. So whoever believes that one creator created this world, is worshipping the only God THEORETICALLY (not theologically). The Church says we worship the same God because Islam is monotheistic, but the Church never says we worship the same God theologically, and the Church never said Muhammad is a prophet from God. Remember, EVEN SATAN believes in the God of Abraham. So if the Church says Muslims worship the God of Abraham, I don’t take it as an agreement on Muhammad being a prophet of God or Islam being truthful, because the Church admits as well that even Satan knows the Only God, the God of Abraham. Muhammed, inspired (perhaps) by satan, hijacked God and invented Islam. This is between God and Muhammed. Current devout Muslims are, in good faith, worshipping a misguided view of the One God.
 
Based on what the Catechism says, Catholics are bound to believe that we and Muslims worship the same God. That is not to deny that many Muslims have a horribly distorted caracature of Him.

We worship God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. On the authority of Jesus, we can dare to call God our Father. That makes a huge difference.
 
Sanning said:
My question is"is Allah the same as the Jewish and the Christian God"?
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NO!!!

The Judeo-Christian God, which is the creator, calls himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not the God of Abraham, Ismael, and…

Yes, God is for all people but the Islam Allah is not the God of the bible! In fact, Allah in the Quran is the antithesis of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
 
I agree with your answer to my question. Allah is not the same as the Jewish/Christian God.Therefore, does Allah exist at all, because there can not be two sepparate Gods in Heaven?
 
Sanning said:
My question is"is Allah the same as the Jewish and the Christian God"?
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4 main arguments.

Literally, NO - Because the regular arabic noun for ‘god’ is ilaha. NOT allah. You can do this check yourself. Even renowned arabic scholars admit that the word allah is a name. PLUS…the quran itself ADMITS that allah is a name. NOT a noun. For reference refer to arabbible.com. If today the president is bush, do you call subsequent presidents all as BUSH? That’ll be bulllshiit of course. Moses asked God for His name and God gave Moses NO NAME (I am who I am). So are we in a position to give God a name? That’ll be outright blasphemy.

Characteristically, NO - Because God taught to love one’s enemies, allah taught to kill your enemies. God taught that man is saved through Christ, however allah says to listen to muhammad. God hated re-marriages of divorced women, but allah says in the hadeeths that the woman should have sex with their new husbands before being allowed to return to their previous husbands.

Spiritually, NO - Because God manifested great powers, allah however had no powers. Even muhammad’s own sons died in their infancies and muhammad himself was poisoned to death by his slave girl.

Historically, NO - Because God is proven by the dead sea scrolls to have spoken in the biblical scripture. However allah’s origins have been traced back to the pagan moon idol, Baal.

Conclusion: Allah is not god.
  • muhammad was a fako, refer to Luke 16:16. It says there are NO MORE prophets after John the Baptist. Watch out for the trademark of halal. It actually comes from the name Heylel Ben Shachar - Lucifer.
IGNORANCE KILLS, SAVE YOUR SOULS.🙂
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Jesusisgod said:
4 main arguments.

Literally, NO - Because the regular arabic noun for ‘god’ is ilaha. NOT allah. You can do this check yourself. Even renowned arabic scholars admit that the word allah is a name. PLUS…the quran itself ADMITS that allah is a name. NOT a noun. For reference refer to arabbible.com. If today the president is bush, do you call subsequent presidents all as BUSH? That’ll be bulllshiit of course. Moses asked God for His name and God gave Moses NO NAME (I am who I am). So are we in a position to give God a name? That’ll be outright blasphemy.

Characteristically, NO - Because God taught to love one’s enemies, allah taught to kill your enemies. God taught that man is saved through Christ, however allah says to listen to muhammad. God hated re-marriages of divorced women, but allah says in the hadeeths that the woman should have sex with their new husbands before being allowed to return to their previous husbands.

Spiritually, NO - Because God manifested great powers, allah however had no powers. Even muhammad’s own sons died in their infancies and muhammad himself was poisoned to death by his slave girl.

Historically, NO - Because God is proven by the dead sea scrolls to have spoken in the biblical scripture. However allah’s origins have been traced back to the pagan moon idol, Baal.

Conclusion: Allah is not god.
  • muhammad was a fako, refer to Luke 16:16. It says there are NO MORE prophets after John the Baptist. Watch out for the trademark of halal. It actually comes from the name Heylel Ben Shachar - Lucifer.
IGNORANCE KILLS, SAVE YOUR SOULS.🙂
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listen to this post…cuz it makes a lot of sense

Allah of the Quran and Yahweh of the Bible have totally different characteristics

I heard that Allah is actually a moon god which Muhamad and some Meccans use to worship…think about it, the arabs at that time worship a lot of false pagan idols, and they grow up with little or no knowlegde of God and the only Gospel available in Arabic at that time is Matthew…and when Muhamad introduce Islam in Mecca he introduce Allah as ‘The Greatest of the gods’ NOT ‘The One true God’ and a few of the Meccans follow him because they already worshipped Allah themselves and Muhamad didn’t introduce them to a new god and some of the others choose to ignore and reject him because they already worship their own gods and there goes some person trying to get them to worship only one

and Muhamad didn’t mention Abraham and all those Bible stories much until his move to Medina where he tried to attract Jewish converts

and the story of Abraham and Issac and Ismeal is so different from what’s in the Bible and Quran that one has to be correct, while one has to be incorrect…so if your accepting Allah as God, you’re accepting Islam
 
Allah and ilaha came from the same semitic roots as Eloah (or Eloh) used in plural in ELOHIM, and means God.
So Allah is technicaly Eloah= The old Abrahanic God
And in my opinion is closer to the old testament unitarian YHWH than the Christian trinitarian God. And like YHWH can be seen by the believers a angry warlike God.
The real question is not if Allah is God, because it is in Arabic. Is that if Muhammad was really his prophet or was a false prophet?
That is the real question to be answered.
About seed, anyone that have seen Sufi poetry can know that Sufi moslems have been closer to God than many modern “christians”.
 
inthecloud said:
Allah and ilaha came from the same semitic roots as Eloah (or Eloh) used in plural in ELOHIM, and means God.
So Allah is technicaly Eloah= The old Abrahanic God
And in my opinion is closer to the old testament unitarian YHWH than the Christian trinitarian God. And like YHWH can be seen by the believers a angry warlike God.
The real question is not if Allah is God, because it is in Arabic. Is that if Muhammad was really his prophet or was a false prophet?
That is the real question to be answered.
About seed, anyone that have seen Sufi poetry can know that Sufi moslems have been closer to God than many modern “christians”.
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Luke 16:16 - “THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN (THE BAPTIST)” - JESUS.

Clearly then according to Jesus Himself, muhammad was a fake. I would suggest those who do not know arabic to learn from the scholars instead of drawing their own blinded conclusions. Visit arabbible.com. The word allah is a name as even admitted in the qur’an. The muslims are desperately trying to make that name synonymous with the noun, god. Do not join in their folly. Calling Baal as god makes you a partaker of evil.
 
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