What Does God Care What We Call Him?

Let's face it. Allah is not the Christian God. He is the old Moon god of Arabia jacked up to first place from among the 359 other gods in their pantheon on the word of Mohammad. Every day, five times a day, Muslims must face the direction of and pray to the Stone That Fell From Heaven. (Doesn't that sound familiar? In Acts the pagans worshipped Diana of the Ephesians, the stone that fell from heaven.) Different rock, but a meteor is a meteor. In the Koran Allah never admits to loving anyone, and seems to feel that all humans should go to hell. He gives the impression that god incarnating to die to save others from their sin is just a sick depravity. To say that God loves the sinner but hates the sin is just pure heresy to a Muslim, for which you should be burned at the stake or stoned. Now if you wanted to use Allah as a synonym for Devil...

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No one has mentioned, either in the article or the comments, about the dangers of calling God, Allah, around people that are neither Muslim or Christian. What sort of message are we sending? When someone pursues their relationship with diety, who will they find? And who will be to blame?

An example as though from God:
"My followers call me God, it is my label, not my identity. If you call me Allah, and Allah you call God, I Am still who I Am. Those who knew me by my Word and actions will still know and worship me despite my trading labels. But what about those who don't yet know me? What path might they go down searching for me under someone elses label? Will they find me? What are the consequences of this label trading? Are followers of a false religion to be placated at the expense of My namesake and the salvation of those who want to know me?!"

Luke 17
1He said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!
2"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.

3"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

On the surface it may seem a non issue, I believe there is a good point made in the article. Even though Allah may be the generic term for god, if you ask a Muslim who is Allah, I am pretty sure you will get a specific description that will point you to the god of their scripture. Also, it would be interesting to speak to a former Muslim, converted to Christianity and see what name they use when they pray. I think you will find that much like English there are gods and there is God. when a Muslim prays, they are not praying to an allah, but the Allah.

I don't agree that saying the word Allah is a "heresy" or that it is wrong. Discussion w/ members of the Islamic faith have led me to the understanding that Allah is simply the word for God in Arabic. It is not the name of God. If a person was born and rised in a Arabic speaking country and believed in Jesus Christ as Savior they would still call God Allah. Allah means God in Arabic the same way Dios means God in Spanish. The statement Allah so loved the world that He gave His only Son is just as true as Dios so loved the world... or God so loved the world. The problem comes in when we think that Allah is the name of a deity and not the Arabic word for God. Muslims say Allah because Arabic was the language of their people & faith. If the Koran is translated from Arabic into all English the word "Allah" would be translated "God". Proper names would stay the same. Christians make God personal, not Muslims. Allah is a word not a name. Jesus broke every barrier & we still erect them.

I agree , there are no Js in the hebrew.
I like to use Our Heavenly Farther ,some times Dear Farther
but using some other deitys name is like giving satan a foot
hold inside to destroy what we hold dear to our hearts.

I had a comment and question on this one that seems to be gone now. I agree that we are not to use Allah for God's Holy Name.

However why don’t we really use God’s Holy Name, YHVH (Yahweh) , instead of the generic LORD?

And why don’t we use Yeshua instead of Jesus. If we really wanted to use there Holy and Real Names then we would be also doing this as well. After all, LORD was not God’s Name and Jesus was not God’s Son’s Name.

My question was if this was too much for us to do?

39:7
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute

An interesting and accurate article, to be sure. I was disappointed to see that one of the more "glaring" facts about who Allah is was left out: that Allah is Satan himself. How do we know this? By doing some serious digging and research one will come to understand that the name "Allah" is a direct derivative of the old pantheistic deity "el ailyah" (not sure on the spelling of that at this moment) - which was the top god of a whole bunch of gods that the folks living in Mecca at the time had. "Allah" is a form of transliteration (so to speak) that basically rolled all the many gods of Mecca up into one to make the basis for the new emerging "monotheistic" religion being cobbled together by some bloke (who happened to be demon-possessed, mentally un-balanced and illiterate) call Mohamed. THAT is the best reason for us not to go anywhere near the term "Allah" - unless we are comfortable equating Satan with the God of the universe...

I believe that His name should be held in upmost reverence and not be refered to casually. He should be addressed as our Heavenly Father, in prayer and in conversation with others. His name is sacred, and should only be used in sacred settings. Casual repeating of His name makes us tend to forget how sacred He really is.

I believe it certainly does matter how we address God. He is God with a capital "G". To refer to Him as Allah (in my belief) would be accepting the Muslim doctrine, which I do not. My Bible tells me that Jesus was God come to earth in the flesh to be the ultimate sacrafice for the sins of mankind. No other prophet can forgive the sins of man.

I will continue to call on God as God. He always has been and always will be God. There is not equal to Him.

Is it a different God or a different understanding about God? Both Christians and Muslims are monotheistic. If there's one God, then isn't Allah simply a different name for God? Muslims may have serious misunderstandings about God/Allah, but how can we say its a different God.

I don't get the argument about God saying what he wanted to be called. Since what he said then was neither God nor Allah, it seems pretty irrelevant to a discussion of using the name Allah in place of the name God. In fact, God is called by a number of names in scripture.

I really don't see Christians wholesale dumping the name God in favor of Allah. But I also don't see any good reason to object if Christians in certain contexts do use the name Allah. If they're understanding Allah as the one who sent Jesus Christ, I don't see a problem. The one name by which we are saved is neither God nor Allah.