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Allah is a phase of the sun, translation “The Dawn”, interpretation: Morning Star or Rising Sun. Allah is the contracted form from Alilah and the transliteral is this: The/god/ascends. The reason for the confusion is because the word “Allah” is borrowed from the Chaldean language.
It is not a Aramaic word. More than two thousand years ago the Aramaic word for God was El, and “Elah”, which means “The God”, reading right to left. Another example is the Chaldean word for (sundown),”Me’al”, reading right to left, but also written here left to right for the english language. And as for the Arabs that did worship the God of Abraham, they called Him “Elohiym”, which means “God of the Living”.
The New testament scripture of Matthew 22:37 repeats Deu. 6:5. If this verse were represented in Hebrew, it would, show YHWH, not Allah as the one you should love as the God of you. The translations clearly show that LORD is a substitute for the word YHWH and not a replacement. The problem is the fact that “ALLAH” isn’t used as a replacement for YHWH in the Arabic bible.
Jesus is reported to have cried out in Aramaic: ELOI, ELOI,LAMA SABACHTHANI? If Allah was valid, how come Jesus called out in Aramaic “Eloi”. Although those who have translated the Bible into Arabic used allah as a term for God.
from http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2007/04/allah-origins.html
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