Christian arabs call god Allah. The bible in arabic calls god Allah. Y do christians say Allah does not exist?

Question

is this just mass ignorance?

Answer 1

well I speak Arabic and Hebrew , so I can answere this..
Allah is an Arabic word that means "the god" Al=the ,Lah =god, meaning the only god, as in Hebrew the word "Elohim" means god but no one has a problem with the Hebrew word , but everyone thinks of Allah as a name to a Buddha sort of god ,the people who worship allah worship the only god there is to worship and he has many names that people call him with , but he remains one.

Answer 2

you just contradicted yourself. you said "Christian Arabs call god Allah." then you said "y do Christians say Allah does not exist?" Allah is the Arabic proper name for God. Arabic Christians AND Muslims AND jews use this term. non Arabs associate the word Allah with islam (as it is used in the Quran) it is the same God the jewish recognize (the God in the bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph and the same God Christians recognize) however Allah does not refer to the Trinity (father, son and holy ghost) so it is not a Christian concept even though Christian Muslims use this to refer to God the father.

Answer 3

Yes, you are correct. Arab Christians such as Lebanese Maronites and Iraqi Chaldeans use the word Allah to pray to God and the word Allah is written in their Arabic bible. Some non-Arab speaking Christians believe the theory of Robert Morey that Allah is the name of a "moon god" worshipped during pagan times. Other non-Arab Christians agree that eventhough Allah may be a name for the Abrahamic god that they worship, they Qur'an is not valid because it describes Allah as advocating qitl fee sybil Allah which is against the gospel of Jesus. Some Christians may even accept that Muhammad was a prophet (nabi) but not a messenger (rasool) of Allah because the message was the Qur'an which is flawed.

Muslims also refer to Allah in their own language. For example, Iranian (Persian) Muslims say Khodah when they are talking about Allah but are not praying.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the God of Abraham. The God of Abraham surely listens to all sincere prayer even if the person is misguided about his religion. God sees that individual's heart and his deeds. On Judgment Day (Qiyahmah) it will be God who makes the judgment and not religious clerics.

Answer 4

The present meaning of a word is irrelevant to what it meant in ancient times. The word "Allah" is a good example. When confronted by the historical evidence that the word was used by pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times to refer to a high god who was married to the sun-goddess and had three daughters, some Muslims will quote dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. to prove that "Allah means God." They are thus using modern definitions to define what the word meant over a thousand years ago! What "Allah" means now has no bearing on what it meant before Muhammad.
When a Muslim says, "Christians and Muslims worship the same God," he is committing the fallacy of equivocation. While Christians worship the Triune God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Muslims worship a Unitarian deity. Obviously, they are worshipping different Gods.
The Nation of Islam uses allah to refer to Wallace Dodd Ford, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan as "Allah" and teaches that all black people are "Allahs."
Some Muslims try to prove that the word "Allah" is in the Greek New Testament because of the Greek word alla. But while the word is pronounced "alla," it only means "but" in Greek. It has nothing to do with the Arabic "Allah."
Some Muslims have claimed that the word "Allah" is in the Bible because the Biblical word "Allelujah." They then mispronounce the word as "Allah-lujah" But "Allelujah" is not a compound Arabic word with "Allah" being the first part of the word. It is a Hebrew word with the name of God being "JAH" (or Yahweh) and the verb "alle" meaning "praise to." It means "praise to Yahweh." The Arabic word "Allah" is not in the word.
The same error is found in the Muslim argument that the word "Baca" (Psa. 94:6) really means "Mecca." The valley of Baca is in northern Israel.

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Answer 5

The language does not make the difference. It's the meaning of the word. Christian Arabs use Allah to refer to the Three-in-One God of Christianity.
The Allah of Islam does not exist. So we tell others that.

Answer 6

It is Christian propaganda and willful ignorance. All three major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) have its roots in the same desert societies, in the same area. All three worship the same God, everything else is just different.

I've heard Christians call Allah "the false moon God", and so forth.

I'm not Muslim, I just don't like it when people stereotype all Muslims based on the actions of a few, and conveniently forget history and all the evils that Christianity has wrought.

Answer 7

Allah=god , not a different god but in arabic God is said ALLAH thats all, language . We all know god and his muslims and jews and christians are the same god but christians have become ignorant to stating that they do not have same god who knows. People are ignorant.

Answer 8

They aren't saying that the Allah being referred to in the Bible doesn't exist. They are saying that the God of Abraham is the one true God while the God of Mohamed is a false God. In general practice, the God of Abraham is referred to as "God" and the God of Mohamed is referred to as "Allah" thus the confusion.

Answer 9

Pretty much.

Allah is to Christianity as God the Father is to Judaism.
Christians claim to believe in the same God as the Jews (Jehovah, or Yahweh), but call him God the Father.
Muslims claim to believe in the same God also, but call him Allah.

After that, they all disagree on what that God wants of them... even within their own respective religions.

Answer 10

It is the same god, Christians mean Islam is a false religion brought by a false prophet.