So, is it your opinion that changing the word ‘Allah’ to ‘Illah’ would be better for Christians when they refer to God?
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I was just trying to use an example from the quran how the arabic word for “god/God” is “ilah/Illah” and not “allah/Allah”.
The only opinion I have at this point is that it saddens me to ever know that any Christian, whether they are arab or not, use that word “allah” at all. Even if it has been used centuries before islam ever came along.
To me it will always be the name of a pagan deity, and I don’t even utter it when I speak out loud.
When I first started studying islam I knew there were people already named by that pagan deity.
Like the name abdullah mean’t slave to allah long before islam even appeared.
Just like al’lat, al’uzza, and manat who are supposedly the 3 daughters of allah. They are all names of pagan deities.
The kaaba housed a pantheon of pagan deities.
From what I gathered there were 365 pagan deities up in that black cubicle and at one time I had found out there were even a set of horns on the inside that were left in place when islam was first making its mark on the world.
For us to continue to believe that “allah” is just a arabic word for “god/God” when I can see from their own book in arabic that it is not and then it makes me wonder how did it all get corrupted in such a way that we have so much confusion over it all ... and then I think satan ... you sly, slippery creature always hijacking stuff and causing chaos.
That is why the proper reference to God should be “ Yaweh “.
Bravo!
RE: For us to continue to believe that “allah” is just a arabic word for “god/God” when I can see from their own book in arabic that it is not and then it makes me wonder how did it all get corrupted in such a way that we have so much confusion over it all ... and then I think satan ... you sly, slippery creature always hijacking stuff and causing chaos.
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OK, let’s accept your argument that using “allah” to refer to the God Christians and Jews worship is not only confusing but a bad idea...
This of course begs the question — WHAT NAME SHOULD CHRISTIANS USE WHEN THEY EVANGELIZE?