Allah is not the God of the Bible

Submitted by Pastor Keith Piper PhD (Australia), Aug 9, 2014 at 08:45

476. Allah the Moon god of Arabia. Why is the moon the symbol of Islam?

Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 4:15-19. www.youtube.com Allah - The Pagan Moon God (rednck13)
Where did the Moon god Allah come from? Islam the false religion (franz karl)

ISLAM IS BAAL WORSHIP * Islam is Antichrist * They reject Jesus is the son of God (MrTrott2hot)

Introduction: The Quran (29:46) commands Muslims to tell Christians "say (to them): We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you; our ilah (God) and your Ilah (God) is One (ie. Allah), and to Him we have submitted." This is an attempt to convert Christians to Islam.

Question: Is Allah, the god of Islam, the same as Jehovah, the God of Abraham and the Bible prophets?

Question: Why is Allah never defined in the Quran? Why did Mohammad assume that the pagan Arabs already knew who Allah was? If Allah was a pre-Islamic idol in the Kaba, then we reject Islam as pagan.

Question: Why did the pagan Arabs never accuse Mohammad of preaching a different Allah than the one they already worshipped? This was Allah the moon god according to archaeological evidence.

1. Nabonidus (555-539BC), the last king of Babylon, built Tayma in Arabia as a centre of moon worship.
2. The moon-god's name "Sin" is part of the Arabic word 'Sinai' & the 'wilderness of Sin' (Ex.16:1;17:1)
3. G. Caton Thompson (1944) uncovered a moon-god temple in Hureidha, South Arabia, with the moon god idol itself, 21 inscriptions of "Sin" & crescent moon symbols. 'Tombs & Moon Temple of Hureidha'.
4. According to many inscriptions, while the name of the moon-god was "Sin", his title was "Al-Ilah" (the god or the chief god among the gods). As Carlton S. Coon points out "The god Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the moon-god." (C.S.Coon, Southern Arabia, Smithsonian, 1944, p.398,399).
The moon-god was called "al-ilah" (the god), which was shortened to Allah in pre-Islamic times.
5. Pagan Arabs named their children after the idol "Allah". Moh father & cousin were called 'Abd-Allah'.
His uncle was called Obied-Allah. Mohammad was raised in the moon-god religion of Allah. Pagan Arabs believed Allah was the greatest of all gods. Mohammad added that Allah was the only god. He did not take away the Allah that they already worshipped. He only took away Allah's 3 daughters and the other idols in the Kabah. Mohammad told the pagan Arabs that he still believed in their moon-god Allah. He told Jews & Christians that Allah was their god also. Jews and Christians rejected his false god Allah.
6. Al-Kindi, an early Christian debater of Muslims, stated that Islam and Allah did not come from the Bible, but from the pagan Sabeans. They did not worship Jehovah, the God of the Bible, but the moon-god Allah and his daughters al-Uzza, al-Lat and Manat. (The Early Christian-Muslim debates, N.A.Newman, p.357,413,426). Newman concludes, "Islam …sprung up from idolatry." (p 719).
7. Caesar Farah, Islamic scholar, concludes, "There is no reason to accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslims from the Christians and the Jews." (C Farah, Islam: Beliefs and Observations, 1987, p.28).
Question: Where is Allah in the Bible? Nowhere! Where is Allah in pre-Islamic Arabia? Everywhere.
What authority do pagan pre-Islamic Arabs have to tell us about the God of the Bible? None!
8. Why is the crescent moon the symbol of Islam? Why is a crescent moon on top of Sunni mosques, minarets and on Islamic flags? Why does Ramadan begin and end with the appearance of the crescent moon? Because Islam originates from pre-Islamic worship of Allah the moon-god.
9. Why do Muslims see no problem with borrowing their god from pagan idol worshippers? Bias!

10. Why did the Quran discuss Allah's three daughters, each being idols in the Kaba? Allah is pagan.
"Have you then considered Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza (2 idols of the pagan Arabs) and Manat (another idol of the pagan Arabs)?" (Q 53:19,20). Allah the moon god married the sun goddess, who had 3 daughters.

Al-Uzza was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times and was worshiped as one of the daughters of Allah by the pre-Islamic Arabs along with Al-lat and Manat.
The temple dedicated to al-Uzza and the statue itself was destroyed by Khalid ibn al Walid in Nakhla.
11. The Quraysh would walk around the Ka'bah and say, "By al-Lat and al-Uzza, And al-Manat, the third idol besides. Verily they are al-gharaniq (most exalted females) Whose intercession is to be sought."
Their shrines were found near Mecca: Al-Lat at Taif, al-Uzza at Nakhlah and al-Manat near Qudayd.

12. Many rituals performed by Muslims today existed in pagan worship in Arabia before Islam.
The yearly pagan pilgrimage to the Kabah included the Ramadan fast, running around the Kabah seven times, kissing the black stone, shaving the head, animal sacrifices, running up and down two hills, throwing stones at the devil, praying five times a day toward Mecca, giving alms, Friday prayers (10).
13. All over the ancient world, the crescent moon is found on seals, steles, pottery, clay tablets, amulets, cylinders, weights,earrings, necklaces,wall murals. In Ur, the Stela of Nammu has a moon as the top god.

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