What was that you said?

Submitted by Oliver (United States), Mar 12, 2008 at 16:58

"الاله

4) "‘Christian' translations of the ‘Tanakh' (Hebrew) and the ‘New Testament' (Greek) into Arabic, dating from about the 9^th century CE, use the word Allah, as opposed to al-ilah (the ‘word' used by pre-Islamic Christian Missionaries to differentiate their god from Allah), in reference to the both the Jewish god and the Christian god, respectively."

In your first quote you point out that ‘your' tri-lingual inscription uses the term ‘al-ilah' – NOT the elided term Allah – then you say "Why was this done? The answer is simple; the term "the divine" (I read this as ‘al-ilah' = "the divine") was used to differentiate Christian monotheistic belief to Arab pagan beliefs by CHRISTIAN missionaries."

Now - when I agree with your obvious declaration that ‘al-ilah' was used to differentiate the Christian god from the Arabian god(s) – in particular Allah – what else? – you backpedal with

So what I am I to think of your ‘scholarship' – I mean double-talk – now?

You say this is a tri-lingual inscription – I want to ‘see' the Greek for ‘al-ilah' – please.

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