How does Allah relate to the God of Christians and Jews?

Answer 1

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of The Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 2

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of the Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 3

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of The Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 4

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of the Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 5

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of the Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 6

Monotheistic, yes . . . Allah is the name of God for the Arabs, YHWH for the Jews, and Christ and the Christian Trinity.

Allah= just Arabs, who are mostly Muslim, and non-Arab Muslims, who may be white, black, hispanic, or any mixture of ancestry such as all types of European and/or Asian ancestry.

Christians/Jews=worship the same God, but have different beliefs (Jews reject the New Testament, while Christians live according to it, as for them it is fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies)

First of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. This is because "Allah" is a word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural, a fact which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God.

To say that Muslims worship a different "God" because they say "Allah" is just as illogical as saying that French people worship another God because they use the word "Dieu", that Spanish-speaking people worship a different God because they say "Dios" or that the Hebrews worshipped a different God because they sometimes call Him "YHWH." Certainly, reasoning like this is quite ridiculous! It should also be mentioned, that claiming that any one language uses the only the correct word for God is tantamount to denying the universality of God's message to mankind, which was to all nations, tribes and people through various prophets who spoke different languages.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God but in different ways.

Answer:

Allah is God in English and same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. All the three God religions worship same God (or Allah in Arabic). Even in Arabic versions of the Bible God is written as Allah

.

Another View:

Simply put, Allah does not relate to the Judeo-Christian God .

It is often said that Islam and Christianity claim belief in one God, but the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are not one and the same. "Islam begins and ends with the concept that there is no God but Allah. Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and unknowable" (David Burnett, Clash of Worlds, 2002, p. 114, emphasis added throughout).

Though the Arabic word Allah means "God," the fact that Allah is pictured in the Koran as so distant, abstract and transcendent as to be unknowable helps to show that Allah is not just another name for the Christian God, as some mistakenly believe.

The Christian (and Jewish) Creator has revealed His personhood and His merciful, compassionate nature in His Word (Jesus Christ). In contrast to the Muslim view of Allah, the God of the Bible is knowable! In the book of Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 24, He says, "But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me." Jesus Christ said in His prayer to the Father not long before His suffering and death on behalf of mankind, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (see John 17:3).

Answer 7

Christians, Jews and Muslims believe in only one God. Allah is the Arabic name for God. Although Islam differs in some important respects from Judaism and Christianity, the God whom they all worship is the same.

Answer 8

Another Answer:
In reality, there really is no similarity to best describe the Judeo-Christian beliefs of God to the Muslim Islamic belief.

Judaism and Christianity have the Old Testament in common. Islam believes both OT and NT have been partially corrupted in transmission while the Koran is believed by Muslims to be the final and infallible revelation of God's will.

Though Muslims believe in God whom they call Allah, Islam teaches that Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and 'unknowable' while Judaism and Christianity both teach that the Creator God is knowable through His revealed characteristics: merciful, compassionate and loving (see Jeremiah 9:24 and John 17:3).

The Christian text teaches the God of the Old Testament was the Word and it was He who Abraham and the other patriarchs and prophets worshipped. Islam teaches the Word, aka Jesus 'as one of perhaps 124,000 messengers or prophets Allah has sent and is one of the 25 listed in the Koran - but He is not the redeemer' (Marvin Olasky, "Islam vs. Liberty," World, Sept 10, 2011).

All in all, there are more differences and conflicts between the Judeo-Christian texts and the Muslim text, as well as the Koranic conflicts with secular history.

Answer 9

Prior to the prophet Muhammad, most people on the Arabian peninsula were pagans, but there was a substantial minority of both Christians and Jews. We have good evidence that Muhammad would have had a basic knowledge of Christian and Jewish beliefs.

When the time came to spread the message of Islam, the God of Islam was the God of the Christians and Jews, and the prophets of Islam were, apart from Muhammad himself, the prophets of Christians and Jews. Allah, which means 'God' in Arabic, is the God of Christians and Jews.

Answer 10

In reality, there really is no similarity to best describe the Judeo-Christian beliefs of God to the Muslim Islamic belief.

Judaism and Christianity have the Old Testament in common. Islam believes both OT and NT have been partially corrupted in transmission while the Koran is believed by Muslims to be the final and infallible revelation of God's will.

Though Muslims believe in God which they call Allah, Islam teaches that Allah is all-powerful, sovereign and 'unknowable' while Judaism and Christianity both teach the Creator God to be revealed as merciful, compassionate and knowable (see Jeremiah 9:24 and John 17:3).

The Christian text teaches the God of the Old Testament was the Word and it was He who Abraham and the other patriarchs and prophets worshiped. Islam teaches the Word, aka Jesus 'as one of perhaps 124,000 messengers of prophets Allah has sent and is one of the 25 listed in the Koran - but He is not the redeemer' (Marvin Olasky, "Islam vs. Liberty," World, Sept 10, 2011).