Do you find it frustrating that so few people understand that Allah is a title, just like the word God, and?

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that it means "The God of Abraham" to whom both the Israelis and Arabs trace their lineage from? It is the God followed by Christians, but in a different manner. The Arabs and Israelis are simply down home cousins, only without the banjos.


(Sorry, I had to toss in that last part)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

Answer 1

Not really.

Answer 2

I do find it fustrating that so many people don't take the time to study and research in order to be properly informed. I mean, most would rather read the instruction manual to their new plasma tv than to research anything of a religious nature.

But I don't agree to your statement that "allah" means "the God of Abraham". If you said its Arabic for "God", then fine. While it's true that both Israelites and Arab both come from the same root, Abraham, the deities that are worshiped are different.

And to take it one step further, Christians "claim" to worship the God of Israel, but since they don't obey any of His Torah, can it truly be said they worship Him? No, their actions prove they worship another god.

Answer 3

LOl@ Banjo part

Yes, It's frustrating, but I think the reason is simple. It's not "mainstream" and anything out of the norm for most people is considered strange or different. Just that word alone makes people feel uncomfortable due to recent events of the past few years. People that feel this way just need to study. I get myself stressed out all the time with ignorant people. No worries. Life is not worth stressin'. Peace

-CK

Answer 4

I liked the last part. Really cute. I love people with a sense of humor. And to answer your question, nope, it doesn't frustrate me. I'm an athiest. Err, one that doesn't give a rip whether people believe or don't believe.

Answer 5

Naw I don't care, if they "really" wanted to know, they would look it up in an online encyclopedia. I have just realize that they like to believe that stuff. So good for them, they jus' like country old drunks fancying themselves in the mountains, only without a shoeband orchestra.

Answer 6

98% of the juveniles on Yahoo Answers would not have a f*cking clue as to what you just wrote. Nor would they be likely to care. Ask a question about Paris Hilton, on the other hand.....

Answer 7

Yeah well, the "GOD of Abraham" didn't write the Quran. God isn't a God of confusion. Only Satan is.

Answer 8

Actually, I find it frustrating that people fail to understand that Islam has attached different character qualities to their god, than the God of the Holy Bible. Therefore, they are worshiping an all together different god, one that suits their own ideals.

THIS IS LONG, BUT HERE IS WHERE EVEYTHING WENT HAYWIRE: Sorry, wish I could put it under a cut for you.

NOTE: Mohammed came ages after the following account in Genesis and tried to place his own spin on the birthright of Isaac, trying to steal it away and give it to Ishmael, Isaac's half brother.

In so doing, Mohammed had to mix lies with the truth in the Biblical texts. And as we all know, one lie almost always leads to another, hence the many twists and turns Islam takes from the Holy Bible and the god of whom they have chosen worship.
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It all began while SARAH and ABRAHAM were hoping to be blessed with a child. God promised them a child (IN GOD'S TIME), but Sarah couldn't wait. She decided to take matters into her own hands and in so doing, she sparked horror for generations to come... THE NATION OF ISLAM!
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Ishmael was not God's chosen for Sarah and Abraham since he was only born owing to Sarah's sin. She would not wait on God's timing for the Son God planned for her and Abraham (That son being Isaac who Sarah would eventually bear on her own).

Sarah, desperate for a child to call her own, asked her handmaid, Hagar to lie with her husband Abraham and bear a child and give it over to Sarah so she could call it her own. This did happen and Hagar had a son that Abraham called, ISHMAEL.

Hagar was, you could say, one of the earliest recorded surrogate mothers.

There was bitterness from Hagar and Jealousy from Sarah that spilled over into the tribe especially when Sarah and Abraham did eventually bear their own child AS GOD HAD PROMISED AND HAD INTENDED. (That son being ISAAC).

Ishmael and Hagar (His birth mother) were eventually cast out of Abraham's clan because Ishmael (Hagar’s birth son) had a fighting spirit and Sarah convinced Abraham that Hagar and Ishmael would kill Isaac to steal his GOD-GIVEN birthright as the TRUE son of Abraham and Sarah.

Ishmael eventually got married and became the father of the now nations of Islam, who are still fighting to this day for what he (They) consider their birthright to nation of Israel).

Israel belongs to the descendants of Isaac, not Ishmael. The God of Abraham says so. Please read the book of Genesis and may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob bless you with eyes to see, ears to hear and lips to speak the truth.

NOTE for any who missed this:

God did still "Bless Ishmael" with many nations just as He did bless Abraham, through his intended heirs, Isaac and Jacob.

The thing is, the nations that Ishmael was blessed with used their free will and continued to HANG ONTO ISHAMEL'S "Fighting Spirit", thus becoming the hate-filled nations of Islam that the world battles with today.

Isaac's generations were the intended generations that now struggle to maintain their birthright owing to their mother's and father's original sin of having not waited on God's timing in the first place.

There is no spin. Ishmael was blessed. What Ishmael and his descendants did with that blessing was up to them owing to their God-given free will.

Answer 9

Madness must run in the family then

Answer 10

No, it doesn't. I get frustrated by very different things from those.

Answer 11

I knew that! They are one in the same separated by time and language, thats all!