Islam Is Not An Abrahamic Religion

Right Side News ^ | February 3, 2016 | Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret)

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Islam is not a religion period.

[CharlesOConnell]

Arabic speaking Christians call God Allah, so comparisons can dispense with the God vs. Allah issue. Islam’s God has supreme will so that He can arbitrarily reverse the course of physical and moral nature, He can summarily declare evil to be good, He can tell us to lie, the Old Testament on that subject notwithstanding. The Christian God’s will is to send His Son to die for us, to temporarily suspend His omnipotence, to allow His creatures to commit the sacrilege of Deicide. It’s a difference in Islam vs. Christianity’s conception of Will: We say that will is the decision to love. Satan’s crime could be construed as a perversion of the decision to love, to love himself to a disordered extent in violation of his primary duty to love God. Islam’s God seems to be pretty sensitive on the issue of His creatures having regard for His omnipotence, as if it were in question.

[Bryanw92]

I read your post three times and can’t figure out if you are agreeing with the OP or not. So, are you saying that Allah is God or not?

[kidd]

Islam vs. Christianity’s conception of Will: We say that will is the decision to love ... Islam’s God seems to be pretty sensitive on the issue of His creatures having regard for His omnipotence, as if it were in question.

Exactly.

[angryoldfatman]

Islamic Call to Prayer, phonetic and translated to English from Arabic:

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Allahu Akbar
God is Great

Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah
I bear witness that there is no god except the One God.
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There are not two occurrences of the word “Allah” in the second line. “Allah” is a proper name, not the term for a generic deity, unlike our word “God”.

[heartwood]

My version: Christianity believes that goodness is intrinsic part of of God’s nature, just as it is the nature of water to be wet.

Islam believes that this imposes a limit upon God’s power, and that good is whatever he declares it to be. If he says it to be so, murder, rape, and deceit are good, and water will be dry.

The Muslim Allah is a god of pure and primary power, alien to his creation.

Islam does not permit Mohammed or his version of God to be judged by any human standard, any outside evidence, any cry of the conscience.

[JoeProBono]

[JimRed]

There is no Allah but Satan, and Muhammad was his murdering pedophile.

[JimRed]

Allah may be a corruption of JHWH.

[JimRed]

Zakat, giving charity to those in need, applies only to fellow Muslims.

[Raymann]

I’ve read the Koran and studied islamic history as I think most people should. It’s full of a lot of twisted, deviant stuff but it is clearly heavily influenced by Christianity and Judaism.

Like every religion however, there is a difference between the ‘holy’ book and the religion. Islam is a pagan practice with judeo-christian elements added in. In the end, it depends on how you define Abrahamic religions. Muslims, along with Mormons believe that they are.

[Maelstrom]

God’s Will is life and love. allah’s will is death and war. Arabia has been conquered, Christians speaking Arabic MUST call God “allah”.

“allah” of course is the moon god from Muhammad’s local village.

[Bryanw92]

>>but it is clearly heavily influenced by Christianity and Judaism.

The influence is the kind that you would expect if Satan wanted to write an “anti-bible” to weaken and discredit the gospel.

[Ransomed]

What did Arabic Christians call God in Arabic before Islam?

Freegards

[cloudmountain]

Wonderful photo of the famous "Trojan Horse."

As long as we keep our hold on the middle east petroleum, we will be dealing with those countries.
Indonesia is, by the way, by far, the largest Muslim nation in the world.
Wikipedia: Indonesia has an estimated population of over 255 million people and is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world.

I THINK that we are allowing everyone else to deplete their petroleum/natural gas sources before we start in on getting ours out of the ground. Just a guess.

[fishtank]

More like Ba’al,

Pronounced:

“Bah all”.

[af_vet_1981]

This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 1 (2002). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Since September 11, scores of commentaries have been written about terrorism and Islam, many from Christian leaders. It is remarkable how writers unfamiliar with the Arabic language have ventured comments, if not judgments, relating to the term Allah. It is as if anything to do with Allah must be demonized in order for us to feel righteous and justified.

In a news clip on KFUO-AM Radio in St. Louis, shortly after the 9-11 tragedy, Tim LaHaye, noted evangelical speaker and coauthor of the Left Behind series, said, “Allah is not the God the Bible. He is an evil spirit that results in murder.” I have to assume Tim LaHaye is not fluent in Arabic! He is, however, not alone in referring to a Qur’anic interpretation or concept of God. Many Westerners seem unaware that Allah is the God Arabic-speaking Christians worship. The Arabic Bible is replete with the word Allah, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation. Jesus Christ is even called the son of Allah in the Arabic Scriptures.

Arabic-speaking Coptic, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Maronite, evangelical, and Reformed Christians worship Allah, which is simply the word or term for God in another language. Islam does not hold a copyright to the term. In fact, Arab Christians existed before Islam appeared on the scene. Christians who worship Allah number in the millions, and their biblical version of Allah differs from the Qur’anic version. To demean or demonize the word for God in another language does a great disservice to believers who speak that language. Opportunities to win a hearing or dialogue between Christians and Arabic-speaking Muslims vis-à-vis Jesus Christ are also minimized.

It is time for all of us, especially Christians, to exercise caution when it comes to attacking the term for God in a language foreign to most of us. No other term exists in Arabic for the God Christians claim to be the one, true God. Western Christians do not normally use Hebrew terms for God in their languages. They cannot expect Arab Christians to use any other term or word for theirs. Allah is equivalent to the English God, the French Dieu, or the Spanish Dios.

In a World magazine issue on terrorism and Islam, Marvin Olasky, editor, referred to Allah as not being the God of the Bible. He wrote, “Muslims say their God is all-wise and all-compassionate, but Allah merely displays man’s understanding of what wisdom and compassion are” (World, 27 October 2001). This statement causes confusion. To say rather that the Muslim concept of Allah differs from the Christian concept of Allah, in my opinion, would be helpful.

Throughout Western history, many people have corrupted the term God. For instance, the Ku Klux Klan demeans, diminishes, and denigrates the English word God; yet, English-speaking Christians have not permitted such corruptions to rob them of their use of the term God. Likewise, the same is true for God in Arabic. Terrorists may misuse the term Allah, but they cannot rob millions of their word for God.

Perhaps we could better understand this error if we translate some of these judgments and criticisms into English. For example, some Christians might say, “God is not the God of the Bible.” They also might say, “God is a demonic force causing murder,” and so on. How can Christians then proclaim Christ to people who know of God by that term? If God is demonized, it also becomes impossible to encourage people to love God, to worship God, or to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Would we be willing to give God a different term after centuries of using God in our language? Some are linguistically destroying the term for God used by millions of their coreligionists in other parts of the world. God loves the world, including those who speak Arabic.

It is imperative that the term Allah not be totally destroyed in Western minds. Otherwise, even Arab Christians will be questioned as to their authenticity and worship of the one, triune God, according to Christian orthodoxy. Such linguistic destruction also threatens to harm relationships with Muslims and potentially arouses hatred. The problem is linguistic, not theological.

Arabic was spoken at Pentecost, a watershed event in church history (Acts 2:8–11). Its usage regarding the worship of God predates English. In fact, Muhammad may have borrowed the term from Christians and Jews of his day. A Washington University anthropology professor states, “Allah is the south Semitic version of the north Semitic Elohim…so that the Eloh and Allah versions appear to come from the same Semitic root.” Let’s exercise caution in speaking of Islam’s different tenets and not demonize Allah, who is found throughout the Old and New Testaments in the Arabic Bible, as is God in our English version. The apostle John said, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Allah, and the Word was Allah” (see John 1:1). We can join our Arab brothers and sisters in Christ who often say, “Allah be praised!”

Christian Research Institute

[Maelstrom]

Yahweh

[Ransomed]

Everything I have looked at says they used ‘Allah’ long before Islam.

I searched ‘what did arabic jews and christians call god before islam.’ I haven’t seen any results yet to claim they used Yahweh when speaking Arabic.

Freegards