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So... Allah is Yahweh. And Allah, being "worshipped" in error (somehow) commands his adherents to kill Jews... whom Yahweh set apart?

Really?

I think YOUR comments are spot on with your own church. The problem is your church doesn't hold the scriptures in enough esteem to use them as the prime source for truth. Sadly, it seems more and more I hear from adherents to the Catholic faith that CCC 841 is actually correct: Catholics DO worship the same god as Mohammedans!

You need to spend some more time in the Bible and not listening to a bunch of RCC pap... er, "tradition."

And, just as an aside, the Athenians weren't quite in the same league as Mohammedans. Plus, Islam wasn't around in Paul's day... and the Athenians were polytheists. They worshipped many gods. Mohammedans? Allah. Not Yahweh.

Read your Bible. It'll do you good.

Hoss

So... Allah is Yahweh. And Allah, being "worshipped" in error (somehow) commands his adherents to kill Jews... whom Yahweh set apart? Really?

I think YOUR comments are spot on with your own church. The problem is your church doesn't hold the scriptures in enough esteem to use them as the prime source for truth. Sadly, it seems more and more I hear from adherents to the Catholic faith that CCC 841 is actually correct: Catholics DO worship the same god as Mohammedans!

You need to spend some more time in the Bible and not listening to a bunch of RCC pap... er, "tradition."

And, just as an aside, the Athenians weren't quite in the same league as Mohammedans. Plus, Islam wasn't around in Paul's day... and the Athenians were polytheists. They worshipped many gods. Mohammedans? Allah. Not Yahweh.

Read your Bible. It'll do you good.

Hoss

Hoss, does it escape you wrote an English transliteration for a Hebrew name which you do not know how to pronounce ?

Are you familiar with the first verse if Genesis in Hebrew ? The word translated as "God" in that verse is commonly transliterated in English as Elohim which is a good approximation for the Arabic for for "God" commonly transliterated into English as Allah, with neither word, Elohim nor Allah. themselves alone, a name for God Almighty (El Shaddai). It is common to use "El" or its Arabic cousin "Allah" combined with another word to form one of the names of God. I'm unaware of any Arabic equivalent to ineffable, and temporarily unpronounceable, name of God given to Moses.

I must confess to a personal bias against Islam formed by personal events beyond my control but not involving recognized sin on my part. Although my words have been harsh in general at times, I have tried to treat Moslems as equitably as the LORD God of Abraham allows and directs.

Allah (English pronunciation: /ˈælə/ or /ˈɑːlə/;[1] Arabic: الله‎ Allāh, IPA: [ʔalˤˈlˤɑːh]) is the Arabic word for God (al ilāh, literally "the God").[2][3][4] The word has cognates in other Semitic languages, including Elah in Aramaic, ʾĒl in Canaanite and Elohim in Hebrew.[5][6]

It is used mainly by Muslims to refer to God in Islam,[7] but it has also been used by Arab Christians since pre-Islamic times.[8] It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used by Bábists, Bahá'ís, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Mizrahi Jews.[5][9][10] Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia also use and have used the word to refer to God. This has caused political and legal controversies there as the law in West Malaysia prohibits non-Islamic uses of the word.[11][12][13][14]

And, just as an aside, the Athenians weren't quite in the same league as Mohammedans. Plus, Islam wasn't around in Paul's day... and the Athenians were polytheists. They worshipped many gods. Mohammedans? Allah. Not Yahweh.

Read your Bible. It'll do you good.

Do you believe what Paul wrote, that the Athenians were, in fact, worshipping the one true God who made them, albeit in ignorance ?