Comments on: What’s Your Name, Holy God, What’s Your Name?

By: TSFC

TSFC — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:02:06 +0000

Hey! Thank you for posting this. The Archie bit fits me quite well. Still, that’s no excuse because I should’ve picked up a Bible and made sure I got this correct. For the longest time I was truly under the impression that we were all sharing the same God religiously…but I see now I was incorrect. (Have a bit of prayer to do tonight…)

Well then, the next time someone shoves that bit of CRAP in my face, I’ll make sure to steer clear of it. If they continue, then I’ll make sure they know I don’t share their God.

*sighs* It’s sad how incredibly ignorant one can become.

Take care Scott.

By: Shwiggie

Shwiggie — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:32:45 +0000

Thanks for the reply, even though it seems to me that you ignored the bulk of the article to insert sarcasm.

You are wrong in asserting that “Allah” the is the equivalent of “God” in Arabic. “Allah” may be the Islamic name for “God”, but the Arabic name for “God” is, in fact, “Ilah”. For an example, notice Surah 4:171, an excerpt of which reads in English, “Allah is only one God.” The Arabic uses “Ilah” for “God” there.

To provide some context, the Arabic “Ilah” corresponds with the Aramaic “Elah”, which in turn corresponds with the Hebrew “El”, the short version of “Elohim”, the original name used for God (and translated into English as “God”) in the book of Genesis. Furthermore, the name “Allah” is a contracted representation of “Al-Ilah”, which means the chief God.

In light of this information, that “Allah” finds its way into Arabic Bibles can only be, at best, a sincere mistake, but it is still a mistake. The easiest illustration of the misnomer being any reference to Jesus as the “Son of Allah”. That’s blasphemy for both Muslims and Christians, as Allah claims no son (again, referring to Surah 4:171), and Jesus is by no means the Son of any other god!

Soooooo, I’m not calling my God by a pagan name never recorded, let alone attributed to Him in His own Word, the Bible, regardless of what you or anyone else thinks about it. And I’ll quit being legitimately afraid of Islam when its adherents en masse repudiate and put an end to the senseless murder and oppression of my brothers and sisters in such areas as Darfur and Malaysia.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:22:26 +0000

Sooo, what should a syrian or a lebanese christian call God? Well last Time I was in Lebanon, Christians called God “Allah”. Because “God” is derived from German. “Allah” is God in arabic.
I’ll agree with you the Muslim and Christian concept of god differs, But the general Idea is the same.

Sooooo, stop being so islamophobic.