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To: Mark17; rwa265
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.

314 posted on 10/16/2015 7:58:30 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

The key phrase.....before Muhammad. The god of Islam is not Jehovah. To continue to persist in trying to equate the two shows a lack of knowledge as to who Jehovah is.


315 posted on 10/16/2015 8:28:29 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: af_vet_1981
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.

I understand what the word Allah means, God. The Muzzies, along with others, engage in "cult speak." We have to almost define every word and every term we use. When I say "God," it brings up the Trinity, the loving Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with the Son being the one who died for me. When a Muzzie says "God," it conjures up a whole different concept in his mind, one of a difficult to approach, tyrant type of God, with no son and no Holy Spirit. The Muzzies worship a God that does not exist, and if they worship any God, it is the god of this world, Satan. They do surely engage in cult speak.

342 posted on 10/16/2015 3:41:15 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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