Is the Muslim god "Allah" the same as the Christian & Jewish God "Jehovah?"?

Question

The arabic word for "god" is "allah." Many well-meaning people claim that the only difference between Islam and Christianity or Judaism is one of semantics - that "Allah" and "Jehovah" are the same diety, the same God, and that it is only a matter of translation. Others claim that there are many differences, and that the sacred texts of the various religions clearly identify the dieties as *not* being the same. What do you think? Please support your position with something I can look up for myself. Thanks!

Answer 1

Since the worshippers of "Allah" consistently perform Satanic acts, their false god cannot be the same as the Father of Jesus Christ. Jehovah God has nothing to do with Satan.

Answer 2

It's just a translation!

Allah means God in Arabic.
God means Allah in English.

I don't understand why we fight against each other when we follow the same God.

You want something to read?
Read the ENTIRE Bible...Genesis to Revelations!
Then read the ENTIRE Koran!

You'll see the same things almost.

People say Muslims are wrong or Christians are wrong. We are the same people almost!

My best mate is Muslim and my Christian people have rejected him as being 'saved.'

He is a truly dedicated man of Allah! Following what the Koran teaches him.

I say that if the book he reads, the Koran, is saving him. Keeping him off the streets and out of trouble then he should keep doing it. And if God didn't want him reading the Koran, God would lead him to the right place because this guy only wants to do right and God knows that!

P.S: No Muslims don't just believe Jesus was a prophet and nothing else. They believe Jesus was the Messiah. God's Messiah. They just don't believe He was God Himself like us Christians do.

Answer 3

Jehovah is a Christian translation of a Jewish word for god. We have many many names. Their are a lot of differences. First off, the different books and translations. Then, the interpretations are very different. Also, the emphasis on certain issues. And thats not even close to the amount of differences.

Answer 4

Yes, when Jesus was born 3 wise men came to witness the birth, then traveled back to their countries to report the historical event. 3 major religions came out of this Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. The time difference accounts for how long it took for them to return to their native land to tell the story and details were changed for believability. Just like if you told a story to one person and it was told over and over again, some details are changed. I believe the minor details are unimportant from each religion but the overall similiarities are what should be focused upon. One God, rules or commandments to be followed for righteousness and giving up a sinful life for a new purified life to seek Heaven.

Answer 5

actually the Jewish and Muslim G-d are the same while the Christian G-d is different

Judaism and Islam both state that G-d is one and indivisible.

while Christianity says that G-d has three parts. Father, Son, and Holy ghost.

while Jews and Christians might have the same name for G-d their idea of who he is, is very different.

while Jews and Muslims have different names the ideology is the same.

Answer 6

Yep. Allah is the same old jealous, petty, capricious, mass-murdering psychopathic Abrahamic diety of desert monotheism that is described in the Old Testament... Yahweh... Jehovah... whatever.

Christians seem to think that around 2,000 years ago, this diety developed some kind of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), in which he manifested a hippie-like personality (Jesus... spent some time on earth... can now be eaten in the form of a cracker), and some Casper the Ghost-like character with pedophilic tendencies (suspected of having impregnated a 12 or 13 year-old virgin... and being honored for it).

The Moslems, however, do not share that belief; they see him as his same-old psychopathic self, essentially unchanged since his old-testament days... except that he seems to have updated his reward system about 1,500 years ago, when he started handing over virgins (in heaven) to be defiled by insane zealots, as a show of gratitude for them having carried out mass-murder and killing themselves in his name. (I think that's what happens to Catholic nuns, after they die. Where else would they find enough virgins?)

Sweet.

I find him very interesting to note that most Christians... including Christian preachers... haven't got the slightest clue about the historical roots of their own religion, let alone any other religion.

Answer 7

well, Allah is the Arabic name of God, so the are the same creators and lords.
the only difference is that Allah as a name has no gender whereas God can be godess or god or Gods, it has a gender and plural derivatives...
to sum, they are the same lord of all humans, it is mainly a lingistic defference no more no less

Answer 8

Centuries before Muhammad, the word "Allah" was used by pagan tribes in the Arabian peninsula to signify the chief deity in the Kaaba in Mecca. Along with Allah, the pre-Islamic Arabs believed in a host of other gods, such as Hubal and 'daughters of Allāh' [the three daughters associated were al-Lāt, al-`Uzzah, and Manah]" (Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, "The Facts on File", ed. Anthony Mercatante, New York, 1983, I:61). (Pre-Islamic Jews referred to their supreme creator as Yahweh or Elohim.) This view of Allah by the pre-Islamic pagans is viewed by Muslims as a later development having arisen as a result of moving away from Abrahamic monotheism over time. Secular historians, meanwhile, have postulated that monotheism is the result of an evolution from henotheism, the belief in a supreme deity as well as various lesser divinities. (See Judaism.) The pagan Arabians also used the word "Allāh" in the names of their children; Muhammad's father, who was born into pagan society, was named "`Abdullāh", which translates "servant of Allāh". "`Abdullāh" is still used for names of Muslim and non-Muslim Arabs.

JEHOVAH: LORD in our English Bibles (all capitals). Yahweh is the covenant name of God. Occurs 6823 times in the OT First use Gen. 2:4 (Jehovah Elohim). From the verb "to be", havah, similar to chavah (to live), "The Self-Existent One," "I AM WHO I AM" or 'I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE" as revealed to Moses at the burning bush, Ex.3. The name of God, too sacred to be uttered, abbreviated ( . . . . ) or written "YHWH" without vowel points. The tetragrammaton. Josh., Judges, Sam., and Kings use Jehovah almost exclusively. The love of God is conditioned upon His moral and spiritual attributes. (Dan. 9:14; Ps. 11:7; Lev. 19:2; Hab. 1:12). Note Deut. 6:4, 5 known to Jews as the Sh'ma uses both Jehovah and Elohim to indicate one God with a plurality of persons.
EL: God ("mighty, strong, prominent") used 250 times in the OT See Gen. 7:1, 28:3, 35:11; Nu. 23:22; Josh. 3:10; 2 Sam. 22:31, 32; Neh. 1:5, 9:32; Isa. 9:6; Ezek. 10:5. El is linguistically equivalent to the Moslem "Allah," but the attributes of Allah in Islam are entirely different from those of the God of the Hebrews. ELAH is Aramaic, "god." Elah appears in the Hebrew Bible in Jer. 10:11 (which is in Aramaic, and is plural, "gods"). In Daniel (the Aramaic sections) Elah is used both of pagan gods, and of the true God, also plural. Elah is equivalent to the Hebrew Eloah which some think is dual; Elohim is three or more. The gods of the nations are called "elohim." The origin of Eloah is obscure. Elohim is the more common plural form of El. Eloah is used 41 times in Job between 3:4 and 40:2, but fewer than 15 times elsewhere in the OT. See the Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Elohim.

JESUS: Derived from the Hebrew "Joshua" (Y'shua) or "Je-Hoshua" meaning JEHOVAH IS SALVATION. CHRIST: is equivalent to the Hebrew 'Messiah' (Meshiach), "The Anointed One."

Answer 9

No, Allah has no son, while Jehovah exists as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Also Allah request his followers to give their lives for him while Jehovah sent his Son to die for man. They are different in name and nature.

Answer 10

the jewish and christian G-d are NOT one and the same.

here's something nice. just for you...
Jesus is not the messiah.
1 - He's not a descendent of Solomon (since his father is god, supposedly).
2 - He's a descendent of Jeconiah

Also, he didn't fulfill prominent messianic prophecies, like...
3 - Peace on earth
4 - Universal knowledge of G-d

how about that for starters.

Answer 11

NO!
Allah is ORIGINALLY the god o Moon worshiped by the pagan tribe of Muhammad, who actually wanted to IMITATED the Jews and the Christians who have a MONOTHEISTIC faith.