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To: redleghunter
No my comments did not indicate such. Please stop attributing ideas or comments that are not mine.

Odd, I read a comment from your user id " no son."

How many times must I say "the Allah of Quran"?

Every time you write "Allah" and intend to present Islamic theology

Both Christians and Moslems use the Arabic word "Allah" to refer to "The God" of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All of my comments were directed to your unqualified use of the Arabic word. I am not an apologist for Islamic theology and did not raise objections to your qualified use of the term. It is not a sin to be born into a language other than Hebrew and Greek.

40 posted on 11/30/2015 12:03:24 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
Perhaps we should ask an Arab Christian to opine on the matter. Best I could find is that the first Arab language Bible using "Allah" as God is by the 867 AD.

Here's some background. As a disclaimer I do not know much of the author's previous works, faith or political affiliation:

As of this time, the oldest dated Arabic bible known is the Mt. Sinai Arabic Codex 151, dated to 867 CE. Bishr Ibn Al-Sirri, an Assyrian Monk, and the original manuscript was completed in Damascus, Syria. Its importance was recognized by Aziz Attiya of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was closely associated with the microfilming of the manuscripts in 1950. He sent a copy to Harvy Staal at the University of Michigan , who published it in both English and Arabic in 1985.

Bishr Ibn Al-Sirri's translation of the Arabic codex was made about 200 years after the Arab conquest of the Middle East. How the manuscript came to be in St Catherine's Monastery is not certain. Perhaps it was brought to monastery during the Crusades, where it has remained ever since. (http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/121182)

So how Arab Christians address the issue of The Name is not clear. But the issue we were discussing was whether or not the Allah of Quran is the God YHWH of the Bible. The answer is no.

41 posted on 12/01/2015 6:28:13 AM PST by redleghunter (Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation)
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