http://www.godallah.com/A great example of Islamic taqiyyah or dissimulation, and this by a self-proclaimed exChristian pastor turned Islamic antichrist, who must surely know better.
"Allah
Does it Mean God?
The word "Allah" is the perfect description of the "One God" of monotheism for Jews, Christians and Muslims!
Is "Allah" only for Islam and Muslims?
[No! It is for All Three Abrahamic Faiths.]
Rubbish.
"Allah" is the same word used by Christian Arabs and Jewish Arabs in their Bible, centuries before Islam came.
Even if this were true - which it can hardly be since the Arabic language was spread across the Arabian peninsula through Islamic conquest - it could have only been for as many as
3 centuries before Islam came along, since
there was no such thing as written Arabic, before about the 3rd century AD."The rise of Arabic to the status of a major world language is inextricably intertwined with the rise of Islam as a major world religion.
Before the appearance of Islam, Arabic was a minor member of the southern branch of the Semitic language family,
used by a small number of largely nomadic tribes in the Arabian peninsula,
with an extremely poorly documented textual history."
"Like all other Semitic languages, Arabic is the descendant of a so-called "Proto-Semitic" language, which is currently believed to have developed in East Africa and which never evolved in a written form. Arabic and Amharic, the two most recent Semitic languages, both arose in the mid-300s."
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=2561.0On page one [1] of Genesis in the Old Testament, we find the word "Allah" seventeen [17] times.
Perhaps in an Arabic Bible, but
the fact of the matter is that
the NAME of the ONE true God of the Jews and Christians is
YHWH, as it
occurs nearly 7,000 times in scripture, as can be confirmed by even the most cursory search of the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YHWH#OccurrencesThe name of the one true God YHWH, is confirmed in paleo-Hebrew engraving discovered, that dates to as early as the 9th century BC. For more on the name of the one true God:
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=2640.0For more on the name of the Arabian pagan's deity "Allah":
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=2265.0Every hotel and motel has a Bible. Next time you see one look in the introduction, you will find samples of the different languages they have translated. For Arabic they have translated the verse in the New Testament in Arabic from the famous verse in the Gospel John 3:16 -
"For God so loved the world..."
- and the word the translators used in Arabic for "God" is the very same word used by Muslims around the planet, "Allah."
Where Does the word "Allah" Come From?
"Allah" comes from the Arabic word "elah"a god' or something worshiped. - (Arabic) means '
The etymology of the name "Allah", suggests it sprang from the name of the Arabian pagan's moon god, which is covered at this link.
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/the_name_allah.htmThis word (elah) can be made plural (gods), as in "aleha" and it can be male or female just as the word in English can be "goddess."
"Allah" comes from "elaha" but it brings more clarification and understanding.
Allah = Has no gender (not male and not female)
"He" is used only out of respect and dignity - not for gender
Allah = Always singular - Never plural
"We" is used only as the "Royal WE" just as in English for royalty
Allah = Means "The Only One to be Worshipped"
The greatest tragedy being Muhammad's followers not being able to see the name of the one true God of the scriptures YHWH, going head to head with the Arabian pagan's name of their deity "Allah", which would have gone a long way toward further helping them see that they cannot possibly be worshiping the same God as Jews and Christians.
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/index.htm
