Allah is Not The God of the Bible

Submitted by Wayne (United States), Sep 11, 2006 at 16:59

Hi Again Rizwan,

We still have a problem that you seem to bypass. I mentioned before that "Allah" is NOT a foreign word, nor even the Syriac word for God. It is pure Arabic and neither is it a Hebrew or Greek word for God as found in the Bible. How could Allah be introduced by the Prophets prior to the Prophet Mohammad if he is not even mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures? Unless, of course, you are talking about other scriptures. As I said before, the god you worship, Allah, is NOT the God of the Bible. However, it is true that the God of the Bible is only One, not many, but His attributes differ greatly compared to the Allah of the Quran.

You also apparently continue to think that the Bible was composed by one person as I gather by your statement: "Even the fact that it was compiled by the person who was a Jewish preacher and was also involved in crucification of Jesses tells the tale of the authenticity of the current Bible. If you really see the Jews actually wanted to make Christians weak and that was the reason that they only put the scriptures that talk about peace and not of war." No, Mr. Rizwan, what do you think the early Christian Church was composed of, all Gentiles? The 12 apostles of Jesus Christ were all Jews. Yes, the Apostle Paul wrote most of the New Testament, but what about the Apostles Peter, James (the half-brother of Jesus) John, Mark, Matthew & Jude? Do you not realize they are all Jews and wrote parts of the New Testament? Also, where do you get the information that a Jewish preacher was involved in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? It was the priests and Jewish leaders that called for His death, not a Jewish preacher.

You are also mistaken about the New Testament NOT talking about war because it does, but it is not a war against flesh and blood, but a spiritual war. I quote from what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians: "Finally, my bretheren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." (Ephesians 6:10-13) That is in no way similar to the principles of Jihad that IS a war against flesh and blood.

Might I comment on your paragraph: "I want to add that most of the meaning the west understand about Jihad, Mujahid and Muslims etc are not so true. (Published at websites News paper or any other form are mostly biased. Previous I thought that it was not the case but after going into this subject and doing some research I found that many entities claiming to be telling just the truth and nothing but the truth actually don't necessarily tell the truth or tell it with a twist, so a truth with a twist is no truth at all)" Agreed, a truth with a twist is no truth at all. However it seems that a Philosopher, Ibn Taymiyah (1263-1328) wrote a book titled The Sword on the Neck of the Accuser of Muhammad. In it he described how Muslims should live in the weakened stage: "Believers when in a weakened stage in a non-Muslim country should forgive and be patient with people of the book [i.e., Jews and Christians] when they insult Allah and his prophet by any means. Believers should lie to people of the book to protect their lives and religion." I've heard that there's a simple Islamic proverb that says, "If you can't cut your enemies' hand, kiss it." I sure hope you're not going along with those ideas.

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