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To set the tone for the articles I’ll begin with a letter which appeared
August 27, 2007 in which the writer tried to defend the use of Allah for
God’s name. He didn’t like a commentary written by Bradley Gitz, a
weekly contributor to the Op-Ed page. The main point the writer
contested was that Gitz didn’t think it was right that Dutch Roman
Catholic Bishop Tiny Muskens’s suggestion that Christians begin calling
God ‘Allah’ as a means of easing Muslim-Christians relations. The writer
used The New Encyclopedia Britannica (1987) printing to prove the point.
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While the word means God in Arabic, it isn’t as innocent sounding when
examined. According to the source used for this refutation, Allah isn’t
a name, but a descriptor that means literally, "the god". All pagan
cultures have these generic terms that refer to their "top god" as "the
god". The word is from pagan origin and has no relationship to Jehovah
(Ex 3:13; 6:3) and Jesus, the name of God (theos-Greek) found in Acts
4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
The word name in Greek is onoma and means the name by which a person
is called, the proper name of a person. That name isn’t Allah; it isn’t
Mohammed, and it isn’t any other name either. The name by which we are
saved is Jesus, the Christ; the Son of the living God, the Creator and
God (Elohim) of the Jews.
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In order for a Christian to pay homage to the false god Allah, then it
has to be accepted that Mohammed is his son and has equal standing with
Jesus as the Son of God. One can’t have Allah without the false teacher
and charlatan, Mohammed. With that being said, it is obvious that the
letter writer knew very little bout the origin of Allah and the use of
the terms for God and Christ in the bible.
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