[Mark17]

Do you know any Arab Christians? If you would have a conversation with them, you would probably find out why you are having such a difficult

I don't quite know if this qualifies, but I have known one Palestinian Christian and one Iranian Christian. Their understanding of the Trinity was identical to mine. The man from Iran, was one of the most Godly men I have ever met. A true man of God.

[af_vet_1981]

I don't quite know if this qualifies, but I have known one Palestinian Christian and one Iranian Christian. Their understanding of the Trinity was identical to mine. The man from Iran, was one of the most Godly men I

The issue was the use of the Arabic word and the English word, Allah and God in the context of general linguistic ignorance on the part of those who stumble over it needlessly. Arabic Christians have used Allah to refer to "the God" of Abraham, Isaac. and Jacob for centuries before Islam was formed.

IIRC you have appealed to the Navigators previously. The Navigators, a well-known evangelical Christian organization, published the following:

“…It’s interesting to observe that, in rejecting the Athenian’s erroneous concept of God, Paul did not reject the word they used for God, Theos, which was the common Greek word for God.

Some Christians unthinkingly say ‘Allah is not God.’ This is the ultimate blasphemy to Muslims, and furthermore, it is difficult to understand. Allah is the primary Arabic word for God. It means ‘The God.’ There are some minor exceptions. For example, the Bible in some Muslim lands uses a word for God other than Allah (Farsi and Urdu are examples). But for more than five hundred years before Muhammad, the vast majority of Jews and Christians in Arabia called God by the name Allah. How, then, can we say that Allah is an invalid name for God? If it is, to whom have these Jews and Christians been praying?

And what about the 10 to 12 million Arab Christians today? They have been calling God ‘Allah’ in their Bibles, hymns, poems, writings, and worship for over nineteen centuries. What an insult to them when we tell them not to use this word ‘Allah’! Instead of bridging the distance between Muslims and Christians, we widen the gulf of separation between them and us when we promote such a doctrine. Those who still insist that it is blasphemy to refer to God as Allah should also consider that Muhammad’s father was named Abd Allah, ‘God’s servant,’ many years before his son was born or Islam was founded!”

—excerpted from Building Bridges by Fouad Accad (Colorado Springs, CO: Navpress), p. 22.