"Allah" is identified with Islam, zazz

Submitted by jennifer solis (United States), Mar 21, 2008 at 01:33

There is no CONCRETE evidence that "Allah" was EVER used by Christians, pre-dating Islam, OR the 9th century, for that matter.

The reason Arabic translations of the Bible use "Allah" is due to intimidation and fear on behalf of the translator; that does not make it accurate, and it flies in the fact that "Allah" was a SPECIFIC NAME given to a SPECIFIC GOD of a SPECIFIC RELIGION.

That is why I used the illustration of former Muslims - if a former Muslim was of your opinions, he would have no qualm, on fact he would attomatically attribute his Christianity to "Allah".

BUT THEY DON"T.

Why not?

If you PERSONNALLY know former Muslims who's native language is Arabic and now call the God of Christianity "Allah", I would be surprised..

What about the AYA, 9.111, zazz?

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