Whatever the name might have meant at one time, I am told that Allah is simply Arabic for "God," and that Allah is the name used for God in Arabic translations of the Bible. Can someone confirm this?
That's correct. Arab Christians also refer to God as Allah.
Allah is originally a moon god.
To be blunt, Mohammed pulled his whole religion out of his rear end . . .grafting together Arab pagan moon practices with most of the old and new testament.
It's fundamentally inconsistent and theologically unsound.
I will confirm. I have been to the mid-east. Allah is Arabic for God and middle-eastern Christians use the same word.
That's correct. And "Allah" is the Arabic form of the word "Elohim", which is the Hebrew word for God as used in the Hebrew Bible.
I found an idependent resource re: origin of "Allah." Actually written. Sorry no link, I am copying from a book (yes, paper and everything!):
"Allah (allah, al-ilah, the god) was the principal, though not the only, deity of Makkah [an Arabic tribe]. The name is an ancient one. It occurs in two South Arabic inscriptions, one a Minaean found at al-'Ula and the other a Sabaean, but abounds in the form HLH in the Lihyanite inscriptions of the fifth century- B.C. Lihyan, which evidently got the god from Syria, was the first Centre of the worship of this deity in Arabia. The name occurs as Hallah in the Safa inscriptions five centuries before Islam."
History Of The Arabs, Philip K. Hitti, 1937, p 96.