Mainline Christian Denomination Praying to Allah?

CBN ^ | 6/28/16

[Lera]

The Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. is raising eyebrows after lifting up prayers to Allah at its General Assembly meeting last week.

"Allah bless us and bless our families and bless our Lord. Lead us on the straight path - the path of all prophets: Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad."

These were the words that rang out over the congregation at The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA meeting in Portland, Oregon. Wajidi Said, co-founder of the Muslim Education Trust, led the attendees in the prayer to the Islamic deity - a move arranged by the Ecumenical and Interfaith ministry staff at the assembly.

The prayer was part of the "first order of business" during the meeting's opening session, a time dedicated to praying for those affected by the Orlando shooting that occured just weeks before.

"In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, let us praise the Lord... Peace be upon them and peace be upon Allah," Said prayed. He also prayed peace on the "bigots" and "Islamaphobes."

[jjotto]

Most of these arguments do not take into account the differences in alphabets and actual pronunciations.

For example, an ‘ah’ sound in English may be the letter aleph in Hebrew, or it may be how the placeholder vav is approximately pronounced in the context of a Hebrew word.

Depending on the letters and their native pronunciation, words that look similar when transliterated can have very different meanings.

Arabic and Hebrew are from the same language family. Think of French and Spanish and Italian from the Romance language family. Words can be kind of similar, but be very different in spelling and exact meaning.

[Lera]

I would never try to convince you that he doesn’t because I believe he does .

After all we call Jesus Jesus an English transliteration from the greek when his real name is Yeshua .
He still knows us if we love and follow him and trust only in him to clean us up .

But the allah of the muslims happens to be a differnt god and their Issa (jesus) is also a different from the Jesus of the bible . Their issa is a muslim that did not die on the cross for your sins and he is not the Son of God.
The illah of the muslim which they call allah (the god) is no God but a demon and muslim Iman’s have no business preaching a sermon or leading a prayer to a demon in a Christian church, it is confusion and an abomination.

[angryoldfatman]

This was the explanation I was looking for when I consulted the “experts” in this thread. Thank you.

[sport]

No. They may be a mainline domination, but they are not a mainline Christian Domination. Though it may appear insignificent, there is a difference between the two. Like where the members of each will spend eternity.

[angryoldfatman]

Below is a link to the explanation I was looking for. It is more intelligible than rattling on about alphabets and unrelated linguistic minutiae.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3444703/posts?page=104#104

Thank you, Campion.

[Iscool]

We are a small PCUSA church in the middle of nowhere. We have been seeking gracious release for about 3 years, but the desire began 30 years ago. We are down to about the last two months of negotiating and have a vote coming up in July. We need to have 3/4 of active members present and 2/3 have to vote to leave. Last time we took a vote it was 100%. We are praying all goes well and we will be out.

That doesn't make sense to me...Just don't show up...That means you left...Find a vacant building...Pick a name for your group if you so desire and you're back to worshiping Jesus...

[Iscool]

I am a member of the First Presbyterian Church here in Seattle. This is a historical church that was formed before Washington became a state. Our pastor, elders, and congregation became disgusted with the conduct of Presbyterian Churches USA and voted unanimously to depart from that domination. A lawsuit ensued over the property rights of the building. We lost the suit and now have a court order to vacate the premises. So, now we have a congregation that has no place to worship God. This is quite sad as we have many older people that have worshipped here all their life and have tithed large sums of money in their life as members, now being kicked out of their place of worship. Pray for us, that we may survive and find a place to worship.

It's just a building...Means nothing to God...If you want a building to worship God in, he'll provide one...Just make sure you don't take the name of that ungodly religion you are leaving...

[Campion]

And the bible was not given in Arabic but Hebrew

But trying to attach a meaning to an Arabic word based on a similar sounding word in Hebrew is nonsense.

Let me give you a similar example, from two other related languages. You know what a "gift" is in English, right? German is rather closely related to English. In German, the word "Gift" (pronounced almost exactly like the English word) means "poison". Don't accept gifts, Lera! They're really poison!

BTW, God's name is actually not "God," either.