[Kolokotronis]

“That being the case, why are two different (but similar sounding) words used for god/God in the Adhan?”

And there are 14 in Hebrew, so your point is exactly what? Anyone, anywhere in the world who attended an Antiochian, Melkite or Syriac Divine Liturgy last Sunday heard God called Allah multiple times. I can assure you that Middle Eastern Christians are NOT closet Mohammedans whatever some American protestant may think!

That this sort of nonsense comes up with alarming regularity on FR speaks volumes about the level of knowledge of Christianity on this site!

[Lera]

[[That this sort of nonsense comes up with alarming regularity on FR speaks volumes about the level of knowledge of Christianity on this site!]]

It speaks volumes on FR the amount of people who think that Christians worship the same deity as the muslim because there is only ONE God .

Islam worships a demon that Mohammed met in a cave that tells them to maim , steal , kill and destroy . And Mohammed got the personal name allah from the idols in the Kabbah .

God’s name is NOT allah , allah means a curse .

[HiTech RedNeck]

Thanks, K, for pointing out the obvious. We got to watch out for being shallow... also, Islam definitely reflects a stealing (and twisting) of terminology which had been Judeo-Christian.

That’s the devil’s original game. Steal (or try to steal) God’s glory. It eventually blows up on him, of course.

[Yulee]

In Indonesia and other muslim states Christians have been prosecuted for using the term allah in reference to the G_od of the Bible.

[Yulee]

In India the name “allah” is used as a term for G_d also, but only because they were conquered and had to submit to Islam. They view their many gods as incarnations of one supreme god. Ancient political correctness gone bad. All in the name of peaceful coexistence.

The bumper sticker you see on many cars "coexist", spelled out with the symbols of different religions, forgets that the first letter stands for islam, and islam never coexists. It only waits for the chance to destroy and conquer.

Was the area covered by most of the Orthodox Church conquered at one time by Islam. Did they submit and stop referring to G_d as Yahweh? Did the term “allah” come in, when those areas were conquered?

Unfortunately muslims object to Christians referring to the G_d of the Bible as allah. Christians have been arrested and tried for doing so in other muslim countries.

[angryoldfatman]

Aren’t you an atheist, or am I mistaking you for another Greek-named jerk who likes to scream everybody’s wrong about Christianity, and the Bible is a bunch of badly assembled junk, etc. etc.?