Was "Allah" the biblical God or a pagan god in Arabia during pre-Islamic times?

Question

was he the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters? LOL

Answer 1

Islam's allah was a throw away idol. 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.
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. Read more here...

http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html

Answer 2

It's a silly joke as it's about the creator if you believed in a God you would not disrespect him in that manner.

Allah is the God of Abraham, Moses, etc. Allah is an appropaite title as it has not gender associated to it, cannot be made into plural from amoung other things.

The moon god that was worship in previous times was not allah it was another name like elliah or something just because it shares characters does not mean that it was the same, reign and rain are not the same so how can the idiots here assume anything about a language they cannot even begin to comprehend.

Answer 3

Yes allah was a pre-islamic "god" the moon-god but muslims believe they worship the one and only eternal god...but im pretty sure mohammed new allah was a pagan god since his father was named abdullah=servant of god... alot of archeologist have found temples to allah most non muslims believe that mohammed choose allah because he was the pagan god who didn't have a image and was the "head god" even though they have found allah idols in the temples... and mecca is historical known for being a pagan worship place muslims even practice pre-islamic rituals at mecca.

Answer 4

Allah is simply a name. According to Muslims, the one they call "Allah" is the same God of Jewish and Christian traditions.

Furthermore, before you go giggling about the entomology or origin of the name "Allah" consider Christianity. Many scholars believe that the Virgin Mary was simply the next step in a long, ancient line of virgin mother-goddesses in the Near East (Kybele, Kubaba of the Phyrgian Empire). Point being the city of Ephesus (a very important city to the development of Christians, but most thumpers have never heard of it.) Ephesus was a large urban city during Hellenistic times, one of few cities whose patron deity was Artemis, the Hellenistic (Greek) goddess of the moon and hunt, who was also a virgin-mother. It was at Ephesus in the 4th century CE (COMMON era) in which an ecumenical council was held to elevate the Mary of the gospels from "mother of Jesus" to "mother of God."

So if you want to giggle at Muslims about using the same name as a previous deity indigenous to their culture, you should do the same as Christianity, and that example is only one of many.

Answer 5

From my study of the Quran and its writings, it seems that in the beginning of Mohamaads dictations, he believed Allah was the God of Abraham, making him the same God we serve and worship.

Somewhere along the line of his ramblings he became disoriented as to the truth and started contradicting the words of his very own God.
Some of the basic contradictions were

Ishmael was the chosen one istead of Isaac.
Jesus was a prophet but not God in the flesh. (by the way, this makes Jesus a false prophet by their own writings, because he said that he and the father are one. So he is either all truthful, or all false, there is no inbetween)
Jesus did not die, but had a look alike die for him.

there are many more, but you get the picture.

The longer Mohammaad lived, the more off base his dictations became and the further he moved away from his very own creator.

Answer 6

Since the Biblical God is an evolved(as in changed, not as in improved as so many people misinterpret it) Pagan skygod... you should rephrase your question.

Answer 7

Why did they become Muslims?

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http://www.missionislam.com/discover/why_they_became_muslim.htm

Answer 8

I know I am not God, so I try to be careful not to ridicule any who might by God. If there is a God, I am sure He could kick my butt. I believe, however, that there is only one true God... Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Show me something better to believe and I will consider it.

Answer 9

Allah is not the Biblical God. Allah was Mohammed's tribal god. He conquered all other tribes and forced Allah upon them. Allah has nothing to do with the true God, Jehovah, the great I Am.

Answer 10

Allah is the same old jealous, petty, capricious, mass-murdering psychopathic diety of the Abrahamic death-cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) that is described in the Old Testament... Yahweh... Jehovah... whatever.

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

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?)