Is Allah the same as YHWH?

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meltzerboy said:
I think the disagreement is based on how the nature of Allah is perceived in Islam rather than the use of the word to signify G-d. IOW, how do Muslims perceive the nature of G-d compared to how Christians and Jews perceive the nature of G-d? Is that what you are interested in finding out or is your question limited to the name of G-d?
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Apologies to those who want this dead, but i went back thru these. Maybe i am looking for both. Most are saying GOD and Allah, but i am curious about YAHWEH and very few if only a couple mentioned His name that way. I think when you get to the Jewish name, the name GOD called Himself (right?). some feathers may be ruffled. It looks like JESUS is Isa but Isa is not JESUS. JESUS is the Son of GOD and YHWH, and for many, Allah. But in Islam, Allah may be the God of Isa, but Jesus is only a prophet? Ironically, a greater one than Mohammad. Do i have this right?
 
BartholomewB said:
The Christian Church had its origin as a splinter group within Judaism, but the origin of Islam had no such direct connection with either of the two older religions. The God of Abraham is the God of both Jews and Christians, but it is wrong to assert, as though it were an established fact, that Allah, the god of the Muslims, is also the God of Abraham.

There only two Abrahamic religions, not three, in any meaningful sense of the word.

In Malaysia, as we know (link below), it is illegal for Bibles in the Malay language to use the name “Allah” to designate the Jewish and Christian God. Clearly the Muslim authorities in Malaysia are asserting that Allah is a different god from the God of Abraham.

nytimes.com/2014/11/04/wo…only.html?_r=0
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The link didn’t work, but the point is understood. Would Islam come from descendants of Esau?
 
It’s like saying the Italian god Dio is deffrent from the American god “God”. The reason Muslims do not translat the word god to refere to God is because basically thery are not allowed to translate any of their prayers, not even their Quran to any language. It is sinful and forbidden. They also believe the word Allah to be God’s actual name. Of course as Christains and Jews too know well that the word god is not God’s name, God’s true name is YHWH. But we do not use that when we pray to him do we? We just say God, Allah or Dio depending your own langauge.

BUT the image Muslims have of the one true God we all worship is seriously misguided. The only people who know the truth about God is Christians and to be more specific Catholics. But no one knows the whole 100 % truth though. That is only to be revealed in the next life.

Check also this link.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=977732&highlight=Allah
 
I don’t know what God the muslims pray to but the lines of communication are up the toilet because many practices of the muslim faith are just plain wrong.
 
The “god” of the Islamic faith is a false deity. Muslims deny the fact that God is a trinity, meaning that he has existed eternally as three persons.

So if you mean to say, do Muslims and Christians worship the same God, I would say no.
 
Alex_H said:
The “god” of the Islamic faith is a false deity. Muslims deny the fact that God is a trinity, meaning that he has existed eternally as three persons.

So if you mean to say, do Muslims and Christians worship the same God, I would say no.
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I know what you mean but God is God. No matter that Muslims have a flawed understanding of His nature.
 
Alex_H said:
The “god” of the Islamic faith is a false deity. Muslims deny the fact that God is a trinity, meaning that he has existed eternally as three persons.

So if you mean to say, do Muslims and Christians worship the same God, I would say no.
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Jews don’t believe in the Trinity either but we do not doubt that they worship the true God
 
ringil said:
Jews are less scary than Muslims thus they must worship the same God.

It’s simple. 😉
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It may be strange but I don’t know a single person of the Jewish faith but I know loads of Muslims. Not one of them has ever scared me
 
ringil said:
I’m being facetious if it isn’t obvious. 🙂
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Yes it was. I was (clumsily) agreeing with you. I sigh when I hear of people being so anti Muslim. Like all large groups there are fanatics.
 
It seems to me that this entire thread has no place in this sub-forum. Shame there’s no way to ignore a thread.
 
The Hindi word for God is Bhagwan. Hence when Christians or Hindus, speaking in Hindi, refer to God they use the word Bhagwan. That does not mean that the Hindus and Christians worship the same God. So just because Arab Christians and Muslims use Allah for God does not mean that we worship the same God.
 
JimmyG88 said:
Yes it was. I was (clumsily) agreeing with you. I sigh when I hear of people being so anti Muslim. Like all large groups there are fanatics.
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I don’t believe people have to believe the muslims are all fanatics to dislike Islam.
 
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