The name Allah is never found in the bible. Neither in the Greek or Hebrew text. Muslims...Can you explain why you worship a God that is not in the bible yet you say that he is?
2007-01-21 02:51:21 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your question is amusing. Allah is not in the Bible because the Bible was not written in Arabic. ALLAH, as I keep saying time and again, is just "THE GOD" in Arabic. Since ALL Arab Christians have the word Allah in their Arabic Bibles, what are you complaining about?
I would also remind you that the word ELOH, as well as EL and ELOHIM appear in the Hebrew Bible. Yes, these come from the same Semitic root as Allah and Eloh is pronounced almost the same. Jesus spoke Aramaic and His word for God would be almost the same as Allah and Eloh.
BTW, in response to Earl D, Arab Christians speaking Arabic DO CALL GOD ALLAH. I have an Arabic Bible and I have met Arab Christians.
2007-01-21 02:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Allah is the Arabic language word referring to "God", "the Lord" and, literally according to the Qur'an, to the "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" in the Abrahamic religions. It does not mean "a god", but rather "the Only God", the Supreme Creator of the universe, and it is the main term for the deity in Islam.
However, "Allah" is not restricted to just Islam, and is used by Christians and Jews in some regions.
Most Arabic-speaking Muslims, Middle-Eastern Christians and Arabic-speaking Jewish Communities (including the Yemenite Jews, several Mizra?i communities and some Sephardim) use "Allah" as the proper noun for "God".
Etymologically, the name Allah is probably a contraction of the Arabic al-Ilah, “the God.” The name's origin can be traced back to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for god was Il or El, the latter being an Old Testament synonym for Yahweh.
Allah is the standard Arabic word for “God” and is used by Arab Christians as well [1]. Allah is found in the Qur'an and in Arabic translations of both the Tanakh and the Gospels and even in the Indonesian translations of the Bible.
Christians believe that Allah is ath-Thalouth al-Muqaddas - The Holy Trinity, thus whole Allah is consisted from Abu-Father, Bin-Son, and Ruh-Spirit.
Hope you are satisfied.
2007-01-21 10:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by ♪¢αpη' ε∂ïß♪ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Greek and Hebrew versions came before Islam was shown to the world, so no, the actual name is not found there.
Have you ever read a Bible written in Arabic? G-d is called Allah here.
Jesus in not mentioned in the Tanakh (what Christians call the OT)---yet, somehow you say he is.
Your reasoning has flaws.
2007-01-21 11:53:05 · answer #3 · answered by Shossi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need a little education, dear. Allah is the Arabic word for God. The reason you do not see "Allah" in the Bible is because the Bible is not written in Arabic.
2007-01-21 11:32:06 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are many different cultures in our world. Everyone relates a little differently, laughs or not at each others "funnies", as any comedian will confirm.
Will one God give instruction to one culture and overlook the others need to relate?
I believe that one Gracious Omnipresent Deity will satisfy the appetites of every creature. Those who hunger after rightness will see and understand.
2007-01-21 11:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by marian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Muslims have their own writings as do Jews, Catholics, Baptist, Jehovah Whiteness, Buddhist
But Allah is Muslim for God in Arabic
2007-01-21 11:11:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard a Christian call God Allah and the entire Middle East at that time spoke Greek as well. Jesus also spoke Hebrew and the language of Palestine back then is NOT the same language as spoken today. NO one speaks the same language today that was spoken 2,000 years ago. Not even Greek.
If you were to go back to Palestine in 20 BC they wouldn't understand 90% of what you say in todays Aramatic and you wouldn't understand anything of what they say.
2007-01-21 10:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Allah is the arabic word for God, even arab Christians refer to God as Allah
2007-01-21 10:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by lat0ria 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
ALLAH is in the bible indeed
Scholars proved it
The name of God is Allah even in the Bible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHhyu61f-wo
2007-01-21 10:57:38 · answer #9 · answered by DBznut 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God alone is to be worshipped.
When asked by Moses What his name was God said ,
I AM THAT I AM
Moses was to tell the Israelite children when asked who sent you, to say I AM sent me.
God is telling us that HE IS THE GOD! He is the only GOD!
The one Divine Nature and that nature is GOD
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
three distinct Persons in the ONE DIVINE NATURE OF GOD!
Christian in PA
2007-01-21 11:44:54 · answer #10 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋