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heya “Seek” ... we have to stop meeting like this ... smiles

you asked me:
If the word used for God in Arabic were so confusing, then explain to me how Arabic Christians came into existence BEFORE Muhammad.
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Do I really have to answer that ... LoL?

I guess my best answer would be that the Power of the Holy Spirit is so Great that there is no stronghold or language barrier that can keep it from where it needs to be.

My second response would be:

It is probably more confusing for us in this present age right now because we-(meaning myself and others that think like I do), have come to associate it with the negative and dark influences of islam, and that’s very understandable coming from us who are on the outside looking in at it all.

It’s a tough call, and I’m not one to settle for happy mediums. I like things cut and dried. It’s yay or nay with me, and I just have to let things sort themselves out in the end.

I”m not there dealing with it, and I’m not running the show either. But the “One” who is, searches our hearts and our minds, and He knows who we mean when we speak to Him.

It’s like the name of Christ Jesus. Do you know how much it bothered me to know that His name has been so discombobulated over the years with all the different language transliterations? It’s like the letter “J” wasn’t even created until like the 17th century if I remember correctly.

It was Yahushua/Yehowshua in Hebrew,
To Yeshua in Aramaic
To Iesous in Greek,
To Iesus in Latin,

Then the letter (I/i) is changed to a (J/j) a few hundred years ago, and we end up with,
Jesus in English and comparable to Joshua really.

Every name we use in the Bible that starts with a “J” is supposed to be a “Y”. Like Jacob is really “Ya’aqob”

Even the name of our LORD ended up with a “J” in front of it like when they say Jehovah, and the vowels are even different. I look at my Strongs Concordance and they even have that name in there too, and I’m like wow, what happened to Yahuweh or Yahuveh, or at least Yah? But no... they have “Jah” up in there.

Everything has become so corrupted over the centuries and it causes a lot of confusion for some of us folks who are striving to rise above it all and do the right thing.

Oh well ... sorry for my rant again.
I’ve been venting a lot here these days, and as I said before, I’m thoroughly disgusted with the whole world and I just wish it would stop and take a good look at itself, and let me off at the same time too ... sighs

Take care grasshopper...
All things will be revealed in the end, and if I don’t see you here, I will see you there ... smiles

Do I really have to answer that ... LoL?

Yes, you do. Because the main reason for the questioning in this thread appears to be to prove to everyone that these folks should (and apparently "have" to) continue to use the word Allah because no other word suffices. This is why I have felt for awhile now that this is just a game.

There is no "have to". Whatever word is chosen would be explained to them as the appropriate substitute since Allah now has evil connotations and should NOT be used in Christianity. You're right. Any translation confusions will work themselves out with the help of the Holy Spirit. It's happened in the past and it will continue in the future. And people have still converted!

Like you said what that word would be isn't up to us. As a Catholic, I would expect the Catholic Church to decide the appropriate word so that it is used uniformly. However, as I stated way back, the Church these days doesn't seem to have a problem with the word because, after all since Vatican II, Allah and our God is the same God to them (which really was my main thrust in this thread and somehow got sucked into a so-called "discussion" about what word Arabs used before Islam and what word we should change it to).