Are we all into Polytheism? Who is the real ONE? God or Allah?

Question

I always here Christians say their God when referring to Allah. I
am sure Muslims say the same thing (I could be wrong). If you believe in 2 gods is that not polytheism?

I know many will say that God is real and Allah is fake - Allah is real and God is fake and that will be your justification BUT is it not just 2 different interpretations of the same God/Allah?

I think the next evolution of the mind will be when we realize we are all praising the same God/Allah. What do you think?

thumbelina_68_1: As I said. (Interpretation)

Answer 1

The language barrier needs to be broken because even though both words may refer to the same being, the meanings will differ.

Answer 2

Actually God and Allah are the same.
It is quite complicated but the Jewish/Christian belief is that no one can say God's sacred name. Allah is just another name by which the Islamic nation call God.
Polytheism is, well if you want to get technical, the belief in many deities poly=many to believe in two gods would mean you practice dualism, but that is trivial.
I think you are right about the evolution of the mind being that we realize that we are all worshiping the same God. One step at a time though.

Answer 3

What I found out about Allah (moon-God) was that Allah is the supreme god or creator who talked or introduced himself with the phophet Muhammad through Angel Gabriel disclosing the truth that it is Allah who created the Universe and in a cave (Hira Parvat) gave Muhammad the Quran because before the pagan Arabs were in darkness. At that time they worshipped 360 gods (moon, sun, and stars) Allah was the high god in a pantheron of dieties and had daughters (Al-hat, Al-uzza and Manat)

Prophet Muhammad adapted many rites of paganism into Islam to accommodate Islam among the pagan Arabs. Prophet asked them to worship only the largest god and destroy all other gods and goddesses that existed in Kabah. The Quranic verses contain verses asking not to make any partners to Allah and they agreed to keep the names of the goddesses of most famous pagan tribes as an alternative to Allah, therefore Islam has 99 names of Allah.

I could go on but I'll end with Islam is not a new religion but merely a reformed paganism. Monotheistic thought is not new and was declared by ancient Pharoah kings 3000 b.c. etc. etc. etc.

Not the same God - sorry

Answer 4

Till yesterday i thought Allah was a translation of god in arabic , like most ilamic apologists would have me think.
Then i looked into their slogan
*La illaha il allah
*no God but Allah
Where "ilaha" means god. So what they're doing is basically refuting the biblical god & holding this one supreme.
Same thing with Christianity. So although they rant about worshipping the "Creator", as long as they have this diferentiation, they will be this segregation.
The day they realise that there is no set way ,and that every path has meaning...every path leads to the same goal ;& that the "God / Allah" isn't a brutal maniac that kicks them out of heaven and dictates crazy rules :they will realise that "God" is life itself.

Answer 5

Don't forget the other God

It always surprises me that people can believe in both God/Allah AND Satan or the Devil and still consider them monotheistic. Sounds more dualistic to me and that is before you even discuss the inclusion of Christ as a separate entity in many forms of Christianity. The Devil may not be the God in charge but you must admit that his supernatural stature is great in both Christian and Muslim faiths.

Look at "the Devil" closely -

He can control or influence the actions and decisions of mortals.
He rules over his own eternal realm.
He is immortal.
He can manifest himself to mortals (ex: tempting Christ)
Without him God's plan could not come to fruition as God/Good/Righteousness could not triumph.

Maybe I am off in my concept of deity, but he sure sounds like a God to me. At the very least we are talking about a demi-god here! Even if you resolve the differences between God/Allah and form a new monotheism, you will still have to remove the Dark God from the pantheon in order to become a true Monotheist. Perhaps accepting Satan as an aspect of God could bring about a new Monism, but that would require a complete dismantling of both faiths.

God/Allah + Satan = Polytheism

And please know that I am not trying to be insulting: I am a card carrying polytheist myself.

Answer 6

I belive that the two are the same. It's like I say tomayto and you say tomoto. it's the same thing just with a different name.

I think what needs to happen is that Christians read the Q'uran and the Muslims read the Bible so that they can see the similarities in the word.

The only thing is that the Bible has so many books missing and so many Theologist have decided to put their own twist on it that it loses some of it's meaning.

But I still believe that the two are one and that we just have differences of opinion in who is right. We will see in the end.

Answer 7

ok God and Allah are the same person. the main difference between christians and muslims is that christians believe jesus is the son of god. and muslims believe that god is one. allah is just the arabic form of saying god. allah isn't trying to get rid of christians. acutally islam allows marriage of a non muslim woman to a islamic man w/out her having to change her religion...read the Quran or some islamic text without assuming things. what you hear after the terrorist attacts are mostly what the extremists practice...they do not follow islam for what it is meant to spread. peace.

Answer 8

The next evolution after the one that you stated is realizing that we are putting GROSS LIMITATIONS on "The ONE" by constricting God to the limitations of an entity!

The next big step has actually been around for quite some time in Hinduism.

The One WITH ATTRIBUTES.
v.
The One WITHOUT ATTRIBUTES.

If a person can get past the severe limitations that we put on God by assigning attributes, then they have made a giant leap in insight.
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Answer 9

Allah IS God

Answer 10

Ultimately words point to only one reality. The names we use are arbitrarily chosen. The important question to ask is who this God is rather than his name. What are the attributes, characteristics, etc. What does God expect of man. What has he revealed about himself. This is where Allah and the Christian God differ. The Koran paints a different picture who God is. The christian God calls for its followers to lay their life down for him even if it means death but never to cause death for its name sake.

Answer 11

Yes it is. Always has been. People who say that it is not the same God referenced have not read the Koran. Is the name Allah not simply an arabic word for "the one God?"