Who is the “god” Allah?

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There is no Christian God or Muslim God. There is only God and correct and incorrect knowledge about Him.
 
While one can say there us no Muslim God, I certainly think the term Christian God has meaning. I would say that the phrase Christian God and the phrase Blessed Trinity are pretty much synonymous.
 
I don’t like the phrase’ Christian God’. It seems derived from the atheist position of Christians creating their God.

Better for me to say Christian understanding of God.
 
I do t really like it either, but since the defining characteristic of what a Christianity is a belief in a trinitarian God AND that is the fullest understanding of God that has been revealed to us, I do think the phrase has meaning.
 
Let me reword my previous response after further consideration. Though incomplete, there is no error in the Christian understanding if God, so while adding the adjective Christian to the noun Gid, us perhaps redundant, but there us a Christian God. There are errors in the Muslim understanding if God, so there is not a Muslim God.

But Muslims, despite their flawed understanding, are worshipping the Christian God.
 
tafan2 said:
But Muslims, despite their flawed understanding, are worshipping the Christian God.
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No they aren’t. “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger”. Muhammad has been clear on who Allah is, he is one entity and who has had no son, let alone the Holy Spirit. Their God is definitely different than the God in which the Christian believes. He is a God of retribution who condones violence - this is in the Koran.
 
po18guy said:
If you are an Arabic-speaking Catholic, you call God Allah, that being the Arabic word for “God.”
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Yes, but the God these Arabic Christians believe in is vastly different that the God of the Muslims.
 
I was rather delighted to discover that the Maltese for “Lord God” is “Monsieur Allah”.

But the fact remains that they are using their language to description be the true God, whereas Moslems use their language to describe something else.
 
Muslims, like Jews, worship the same monotheistic Gd as Christians, even though they have a different conception of Gd as a Unity rather than a Trinity. They also obviously have a different religion compared to Christianity.
 
Hawkeye916 said:
My question is this…is the god “Allah” that the Muslims worship the same God that we as Catholics worship?
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Yes. For Catholics, the answer to this question is undeniable: “The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth…” (Nostra Ætate n. 3)
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So does that make Islam one of the oldest Christian Heresies because of their distorted, blasphemous and incorrect worship of God?
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I haven’t looked into it too much, but I hear the Hillaire Belloc considered Islam to be like a ‘Christian heresy’ for lack of a better term.
 
My sister believes, due to mental illness, that our parents psychologically abused her, I know they didn’t, that does not mean we have different parents.

I have explained my case, they believe in a one god, who created and sustains everything. As Thomas Aquinas said, that us what we call God.

I will let Edward Dessert explain in more detail:

 
I read them; I was just trying to enlighten you on what is apparently a misconception about our Protestant brethren. Your argument isn’t as strong as you think it is if you don’t have a solid foundation for the points you’re trying to make.
 
My argument is very strong thank you, if you take it whole. As a former Anglican Churchwarden with an honours degree in Theology at Oxford I know perfectly well what Protestants believe.
 
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Any number of sources will show (Google is your friend) that the preferred spelling is now Muslim and that the older spelling is usually considered a slur.
Now, since the organization you linked to had its founding when that was the preferred spelling, it is their choice to keep it. I will note, however, on their website, the use “Muslim” everywhere else but their name. 🤔
 
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But there is no evidence that he was influenced by the Catholic Church.
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I didn’t say “influenced” by the Catholic Church. I said “interfaced.”

He learned stuff about Christianity, enough to rebuke it.
 
This has zero to do with the topic, and everything to do with your personal spelling choices.
 
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