I have seen Christian websites claiming Allah is a moon God.
But Arab Christians and Jews still call their God as Allah. See this discussion at a catholic forum http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=111045
Also, throughout Arabic Bible there is Allah mentioned for God
See Arabic bible Genesis
http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/ot/gen/1.htm
You can see الله(Allah in Arabic) in the first verse
You can see Allah in list of Christian terms in Arabic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_terms_in_Arabic
2006-09-27 21:04:38 · 19 answers · asked by inin 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The reason I asked this question is since there are lot of Christain sites claiming that Allah is moon god, why they are not educating Arabic Christians what they are claiming.
2006-09-27 21:16:24 · update #1
Because "Allah" is the Arabic word for "God."
2006-09-27 21:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Arab Christians and Muslims and Yahuudi, (or who you call Jew because of the Hoax of the Bible and the influence of the Crusades on Islam of the Arabs), know the name of the Only True God of monotheism to be Allah.
The Arabic for god or diety is ilah.
Christians, whether Arab or not, do not worship Allah but worship an ilah in a Trinity, but the Arab Christians utter what Allah condemns as blasphemy in the Quran and still cling to Allah in oreder only to seal their infidelity.
I once spoke to an Arab Christian who claimed to me that they, the Arab Christians were the true Christians, saying they were Nazaaraa, but when I reminded him that Christ is Masih in Arabic and asked him how then can Nazaaraa be Christian or "of the Christ", he was silenced, not knowing his own mother tongue.
Actually, Christianity is false worship and can never be described as trut although some converts to Islam claim they have become true Christians by becoming Muslim.
2006-09-27 21:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allah is the Arabic term for God therefore if you speak Arabic you'd call God Allah
2006-09-27 21:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by Blair Waldorf 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because Allah is the arabic word for God! I'm a muslims but from the west and i call God "God" not "allah" because i'm not arabic...we beleive in the one God like Jews do.
2006-09-27 21:08:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Any Arab would call God Allah because Allah is the Arabic word for God... DUHHH!!!
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Spanish- dios
French- dieu
German- Gott
Italian- dio
Malay- Tuhan
Portugese- deus
Russian- 6or
Norwegian- gud
I haven't even entered Africa yet... Get my point?
2006-09-27 21:29:04 · answer #5 · answered by LeScorned 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 11:05:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking or answering?
'God' is an English word. It translates into 'Gott, Dieu, Dio', etc. in different languages and translates into 'Allah' in Arabic. But I presume you knew this. Also that 'ilah' means 'god' (as in one among many) but 'Allah' means 'God' (as in unique) but putting a definite article at the beginning.
As for Christian web sites (possibly run by whynotaskdon) referring to 'Allah as a moon god', that's just bigoted fundamentlaist doggerel and should be ignored.
But you knew that too.
2006-09-27 21:08:59 · answer #7 · answered by XYZ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
God is Allah in Arabic...so god and Allah is the same just depend in which language you speak
2006-09-27 21:08:39 · answer #8 · answered by wsola 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who says that "Allah" and "God" in the Christian religion are the same deity is either incredibly misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead others as to the true origins of Allah and Islam.
Allah and Allat (sometimes spelled Illat) were two pagan deities worshipped in the Arabian peninsula. Allah was the moon deity. His worship rituals involved walking around a big rock at certain times, giving alms, praying five times a day, and fasting one month of the year from sunrise to sunset....in other words teh five tenets of modern day Islam.
When Mohammad decided to come up with Islam, he borrowed heavily from the pagan rituals of the locals. This was done in order to facilitate the people's acceptance of his new 'religion'. He also borrowed heavily from the Jewish religion and the Christian religion, especially early on in his campaign and that's why there are verses in the Koran describing Jews and Christians as "People of the Book". After becoming more powerful than the Jews and Christians in the region, however, we get the verses that give Muslims the right to rape, pillage, and kill "heathens" i.e. non-muslims.
But I digress...back to the language issue. Allah is the proper name of the Islamic diety, but also the word for god in the Arabic language. After the Islamic invasion of the world, Arabic was forced upon the people they conquered and hence they started calling God, allah, but in the general sense...not as a proper noun.
2006-09-27 21:16:33 · answer #9 · answered by tell_me_whos_sleeping_with_who 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Allah is the name of God. Just like Jehovah is the name of God. And Yehweh is the name of God. See where I am going here? They are all the same God, just different names for different interpretations of the same being.
2006-09-27 21:08:13 · answer #10 · answered by sangheilizim 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋