Oferta de Programas

Having examined the history of Islam and its persecution of Christians, we now turn our attention to the Arabic word “Allah” Is it really a proper name for the God that Christians worship?

The following propositions will reveal that the word “Allah” shou ld not be used as a name for the God of the Bible.

1.It is not a BIBLICAL name for God. The patriarchs, prophets, Jesus, and the apostles never at any time prayed to or worshiped a god that they called “Allah.”

2. It is not a REVEALED name for God. God revealed to the prophets in the Bible many different names by which He wanted men to call Him. But not once in the Bible did He ever reveal that “Allah” was his name.

3. If, as some believe but others deny, the linguistic root or stem of Allah may share a common origin with other gods of the Fertile Crescent such as Baal or E1, this does not logically imply that they are all the same God. A common linguistic stem does not logically imply a common deity: otherwise Allah is Baal and Baal is Allah or Elohim is Baal and Baal is Elohim.

4. In pre-Islamic times, “Allah” was a pagan name for a pagan deity among pagan Arabians. 5. In Southern Arabia, “Allah” was the name of the moon god who was married to the sun goddess. Together they had three daughters who were called the “daughters of Allah.”

6. Throughout Arabia, Allah was viewed as only one of the “High” gods who were worshiped at the Kabah in Mecca.

7. The “daughters of Allah” were worshiped by the tribe into which Muhammad was born. 8. The Qur’an does not explain who “Allah” was because Muhammad assumed that the pagan Arabians already knew who he was. He was right. Allah was one of the 360 pagan gods

worshiped at the Kabah!

9. As “Allah” slowly became a generic name in the Middle East and in Asia for deity in general, other religions used it as an Arabic name for their gods. But this does not logically imply that they believed that the god of Islam was their god. The name may have been the same but the concept different.

10. By the 9th Century, because of the dominance of Islam in the Middle East, the word “Allah” was used as a generic name for deity in the Arabic Bible. But this was done by Christians who out of fear for their lives used “Allah” as a means to appease their Muslim oppressors and to escape death. But the time has come to correct their error and to tell the truth that “Allah” is a  pagan name for a pagan god.

11. Modern Islamic countries such as Malaysia have decreed that the name “Allah” is the exclusive name of the god of Islam and not the God of Christians. Thus the Malaysian

government has decreed that Christians may NOT use “Allah” in their Bibles, books, or hymns. They are in the process of confiscating and destroying all non-Muslim literature which uses the word “Allah.”

IV. Conclusion

Since the Muslims are now saying that the word “Allah” is NOT a generic term for deity in general but it is a name that refers specifically to their anti-Christ concept of deity, the intelligent Christian cannot use the word “Allah” for God.

A. The Concept of Allah in Islam

The use of the generic Arabic word “Allah” in translations of the Bible or a common Semitic root with Elohim does not have any logical bearing on the issue of whether or not the god of Islam and the God of the Bible are the same God. In logic, formal similarities mean nothing.

The real issue is whether the concept of “Allah” in Islam is the same as that of the Christian God. If they are defined differently and if they have different and contradictory attributes, then there is no logical way to escape the conclusion that they are different deities.

The fact is that the Triune God of the Bible is not Islam’s Allah. Thus the god of Islam is not the God of the Bible any more than it would be proper to say that the “God” of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is the Christian God.

The following propositions demonstrate to the rational mind that Allah is not the God of the Bible. For the documentation, please consult the book The Islamic Invasion (Harvest House). 1. Since Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God and that God is a Father, it “denies the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22–23). Thus Islam is an

2. anti-Christ religion. It cannot be both a biblical religion and an anti-Christ religion at the same time.

3. Allah’s attributes are radically different from the biblical God. For example, Allah is unknowable and unpredictable. He is not a Trinity. He did not become incarnate for man’s salvation. He is not a person or a spirit. He is not limited by anything, not even by his own nature; it is impossible to enter into a personal relationship with Allah, etc.

4. Just because you believe in one god does not logically imply that you have the right one. A Greek pagan could have proclaimed Zeus the one true God just as Muhammad proclaimed Allah.

The irrefutable fact that Muslims have consistently persecuted Christians as “infidels”

reveals that when “the rubber meets the road” Muslims believe that their god “Allah” is NOT the same God that Christians worship. Otherwise, Christians would have never bee n viewed or treated as infidels.

The Muslim god “Allah” is not the same God that Christians worship. The vast majority of Muslims know this to be true. This is why they call Christians “infidels” and persecute them. Those Muslims in the West who claim otherwise, do so as an evangelistic tool to convert

ignorant and unwary Westerners to Islam. That they knowingly and openly use deception is not right and it doesn’t speak well of the religion of Islam.