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To: BMC1

The Aramaic "el" and Arabic "ilah" share a proto-Semetic root mean small-g god. "Allah" is a contraction of "al-ilah", and means "the [one] God." Any decent Arabic-language Bible will use "Allah" for "God." As you have shown, "Allah" is much closer to the term that Jesus used for His Father than the Germanic "God".


24 posted on 12/04/2006 11:14:02 AM PST by zimdog
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To: zimdog
The Aramaic "el" and Arabic "ilah" share a proto-Semetic root mean small-g god. "Allah" is a contraction of "al-ilah", and means "the [one] God." Any decent Arabic-language Bible will use "Allah" for "God." As you have shown, "Allah" is much closer to the term that Jesus used for His Father than the Germanic "God".

I was startled the first time I attended a Mass in Turkish to hear the Creed open with profession of belief in Allah. However, that's not the name of a god, it's simply the Turkish word for God.

96 posted on 12/04/2006 4:46:10 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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