Is Allah the same as God in the Bible?

[hetrodoxly]

Spoken to a brother more studied on the topic than I and after a few words he guided me to this.

http://www.marifah.n...dinalsuyuti.pdf

You asked as to who was he a servant to and I stated to you that it was a strong possibility that it was God, and I was not qualified to state anything that was unknown to me in hopes of making a point sir.

Ibn al-Jawzī enumerates in al-Talqīh the names of nine who refused to worship

idols in the time of the Jahiliyya: Abū Bakr al-Siddīq, Zayd ibn `Amr ibn Nufayl,

`Abdullāh ibn Jahsh, `Uthmān ibn al-Huwayrith, Waraqā ibn Nawfal, Rabab ibn alBarrā’, As`ad ibn Kurayb al-Humayrī, Qass ibn Sa`īda al-Iyādī, Abū Qays ibn Sarma.

Sorry but this is nonsense and Abū Bakr al-Siddīq was Mohammed's father in law, not an idol in the kaaba

[odas]

Sorry but this is nonsense and Abū Bakr al-Siddīq was Mohammed's father in law, not an idol in the kaaba

He sais nine people who refused to pray to idols among them Abu Bakr. Please read a post more carefuly before you respond. Thank you.

[hetrodoxly]

He sais nine people who refused to pray to idols among them Abu Bakr. Please read a post more carefuly before you respond. Thank you.

Please read a post more carefully before you respond. Thank you.

I can now see he left a large gap between sentences, why?

is he replying to the right post because his reply has no relevance to my post?

He wrote, "idols in the time of the Jahiliyya: Abū Bakr al-Siddīq, Zayd ibn `Amr ibn Nufayl,

`Abdullāh ibn Jahsh, `Uthmān ibn al-Huwayrith, Waraqā ibn Nawfal, Rabab ibn alBarrā’, As`ad ibn Kurayb al-Humayrī, Qass ibn Sa`īda al-Iyādī, Abū Qays ibn Sarma"

[lightly]

He used to be.

[eight bits]

Well, let's do an experiment. If three creative works each incorporates a character based on one single traditional character, is the character "the same" in all three works?

Let's take a religious figure. Hercules, the son of the most high god. Here are three films, each of which features a character named Hercules. Each work has obviously drawn on the same body of myths, traditions and legends. Also, earlier works are available for authors of later works to draw upon as well.

A 1997 cartoon feature,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119282/

A television series contemporary with the cartoon,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111999/

A Handel oratorio, here in a 2005 production,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456974/

Does the same character appear in all three works? No, of course not. Each author has selected some things from the common corpus, and left the rest. Each creator has added original matter to what was taken from the common source. Each author has allowed the genre (animation, serial, musical drama) to influence the selection and creation of material.

The result is three unqiue characters with the same name and many parallels, but there is no possibility, none whatsoever, of one charcater being mistaken for either of the others.

OK, now let's do YHWH-God-Allah.

YHWH is the the collective product of the Hebrew national imagination. Jesus is a (probable) historical character whose deification results in the Triune God, utterly unknown to the Hebrews, and utterly irrelevant to modern Jewish religion. Allah is the original and sole creation of Mohammed, based skettchily on both Hebrew and (mainly heretical) Christian sources, with many original elements and adaptations to the folklore of his people.

And Abraham? He worshipped the Canaanite God El, according to the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 6: 2-3). Or Yahweh, since there supposed to be the same, or Allah, since they're supposed to be the same, or Jesus (Before Abraham was, I am), since they're supposed to be the same.

Finally, the same analysis can be run on Jesus. Is Jesus, the (probable) historical character, the same person as St Paul's Jesus? Nicene Christians say yes, Muslims say no. So much for the same God theory right there. Is either of those Jesuses the same as the Jehovah's Witnesses Jesus? That would be Archangel Michael to Nicenes. Are any of those Jesuses the Mormon Jesus? The Gnostic Jesus? Marcion's Jesus? The Nestorian Jesus?

Of course not.

Edited June 21, 2012 by eight bits

[Uncle Pockets]

Sorry but this is nonsense and Abū Bakr al-Siddīq was Mohammed's father in law, not an idol in the kaaba

You misread that sir. States that he was one of the 9 men who refused to worship. Not sure why it appeared like that.

[Philangeli]

I do not agree with this statement. While, yes, there is a difference in belief, Jews, Christians and Sabinians are reffered to as people of the book.

The book refers to, not only to the bible, but to the, acording to the Quran, one boom in heavens that contains all three scriptures. According to the Quran, all three scriptures are one whose message is delivered in stages. Unfortunately most christians as well as many, many muslims do not understand the Quranic meaning of infidel ot unbeliever and to whom it is directed. It is no different as the old testament.

In Islam, all non-Muslims are called unbelievers or infidels. The treatment of the infidels in Islam is divided into two categories. The polytheists, pagans, idolaters and heathens had the choice of converting to Islam or suffer death.

The Jews and Christians, whom the Quran calls people of the book, could keep their religion, but on the sufferance of accepting humiliation and subjugation to Islam and payment of Jizyah (poll-tax) to the Islamic rulers.

There are many verses in the Quran, supposedly spoken by Allah to Mohammed, encouraging him to wage war and kill the 'infidels', too many to list here (see link below).

Why would God instruct Mohammed to attack (in the name of God) others who already believed in God? A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.

http://www.****************.com/Quran/023-violence.htm

[Philangeli]

Because, I as a muslim, have only one father and only one mother and neither one of them is divine.

We call God, our Father (capital F), as, according to the Bible, he created us. He is the Father of mankind.

The word, father, has an extended meaning to just being the literal progenitor of a child, e.g. 'The father of lies'.

Edited June 22, 2012 by Philangeli

[Mr Walker]

Well, let's do an experiment. If three creative works each incorporates a character based on one single traditional character, is the character "the same" in all three works?

Let's take a religious figure. Hercules, the son of the most high god. Here are three films, each of which features a character named Hercules. Each work has obviously drawn on the same body of myths, traditions and legends. Also, earlier works are available for authors of later works to draw upon as well.

A 1997 cartoon feature,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119282/

A television series contemporary with the cartoon,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111999/

A Handel oratorio, here in a 2005 production,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456974/

Does the same character appear in all three works? No, of course not. Each author has selected some things from the common corpus, and left the rest. Each creator has added original matter to what was taken from the common source. Each author has allowed the genre (animation, serial, musical drama) to influence the selection and creation of material.

The result is three unqiue characters with the same name and many parallels, but there is no possibility, none whatsoever, of one charcater being mistaken for either of the others.

OK, now let's do YHWH-God-Allah.

YHWH is the the collective product of the Hebrew national imagination. Jesus is a (probable) historical character whose deification results in the Triune God, utterly unknown to the Hebrews, and utterly irrelevant to modern Jewish religion. Allah is the original and sole creation of Mohammed, based skettchily on both Hebrew and (mainly heretical) Christian sources, with many original elements and adaptations to the folklore of his people.

And Abraham? He worshipped the Canaanite God El, according to the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 6: 2-3). Or Yahweh, since there supposed to be the same, or Allah, since they're supposed to be the same, or Jesus (Before Abraham was, I am), since they're supposed to be the same.

Finally, the same analysis can be run on Jesus. Is Jesus, the (probable) historical character, the same person as St Paul's Jesus? Nicene Christians say yes, Muslims say no. So much for the same God theory right there. Is either of those Jesuses the same as the Jehovah's Witnesses Jesus? That would be Archangel Michael to Nicenes. Are any of those Jesuses the Mormon Jesus? The Gnostic Jesus? Marcion's Jesus? The Nestorian Jesus?

Of course not.

To take you first example. Yes they are the same character (the mythological figure of hercules) In terms of being the same "person" but they do not hold all the common characteristics of the one person . In some cases they may even be transferred through space and time.

The same is tue for the multitude of films and variants on robin hood. "Everyone" who sees these films understands they are referencing the one character, despite many portrayed differences. This is also true for merlin and arthur.

In the same way, the jesus of jews, muslims, christians, ( including mormons) is the same character even though the character is viewed and referenced through widely varying perspectives and emphases.

In short, the "character " referenced is the same one, even where the character of the "character" varies widely.

[eight bits]

In a recent post in a different thread, I invoked a Jason whose Argo was decocrated with Pennzoil, Bud Light and Doritos decals. Is my Jason "the same as" as the Jason of the ancients? No, that was neither my intention, nor the effect my posting had.

I invoked an archetype and juxtaposed two instances of it, an ancient Jason and a modern race car driver. Because I could rely on the reader knowing what I was talking about, I created something new, something that is neither Jason, although that was the character's name, nor it it any race car driver whao has ever been, either.

It is a insult to Jews to say that Christians and Muslims worship the God of their Hebrew ancestors, in whose name both have murdered Jews wholesale. It is an insult to Chrsitians to say that Allah, who faked the death of the Christian God to bamboozle the Jews, is the Christian God. It is an insult to Muslims to say that they worship a God who has a son. who is his peer. It is an insult to Mormons to say that their God had a son without having sex with the child's mother, and a compound insult that the child's mother wasn't God's wife.

Things which are the same have no differences among them. The Abrahamic Gods.have diffrences among them. They are not the same. That was the question posed to the community. The answer is no.

[Mr Walker]

In a recent post in a different thread, I invoked a Jason whose Argo was decocrated with Pennzoil, Bud Light and Doritos decals. Is my Jason "the same as" as the Jason of the ancients? No, that was neither my intention, nor the effect my posting had.

I invoked an archetype and juxtaposed two instances of it, an ancient Jason and a modern race car driver. Because I could rely on the reader knowing what I was talking about, I created something new, something that is neither Jason, although that was the character's name, nor it it any race car driver whao has ever been, either.

It is a insult to Jews to say that Christians and Muslims worship the God of their Hebrew ancestors, in whose name both have murdered Jews wholesale. It is an insult to Chrsitians to say that Allah, who faked the death of the Christian God to bamboozle the Jews, is the Christian God. It is an insult to Muslims to say that they worship a God who has a son. who is his peer. It is an insult to Mormons to say that their God had a son without having sex with the child's mother, and a compound insult that the child's mother wasn't God's wife.

Things which are the same have no differences among them. The Abrahamic Gods.have diffrences among them. They are not the same. That was the question posed to the community. The answer is no.

Some people are easily insulted. I can sort of see your pov ,but it is too "weird" for me to take seriously. Humans kill other humans over all sorts of things. We shouldn't, but we do, and we do it very well. I dont get insulted because the english killed my scottish ancestors Or by the fact that they had differing religious views.

Whether the god is real or a construct, indeed christians muslims and jews worship the one entity. They kill and fight over perceived differences in that entity, but that is a common human failing and not the fault of god, either real or construct.

I dont even "get" your references to faking death etc. Again, these are human attributions, not who or what the god is, either in reality or in construction. Did robin marry marion or not? It doesnt matter in terms of the character of robin and his significance in our literary and cultural history and beliefs.

It is human choice. To see the sameness in god and to live in harmony with that, or to see the differences and kill over them.

All human beings are the same, yet every one of us has differences from all the rest. Some of those differences are small, some large, but none outweigh the basic commonness of us all. Do we allow those differences to divide us and bring conflict, or embrace the basic oneness of all, and use that to bring peace to the world?

Edited June 22, 2012 by Mr Walker

[Philangeli]

Because, I as a muslim, have only one father and only one mother and neither one of them is divine.

Out of interest, do you consider fellow muslims as your 'brothers'?

Wouldn't it be nice if that could be expanded to include all mankind as your brothers and sisters, rather than classing them as believers and non-believers?

And ... as a world family of brothers and sisters, and thus children of God (according to Abrahamic religion), so God, then, is our ... [fill in the gap].

Edited June 22, 2012 by Philangeli

[Uncle Pockets]

Out of interest, do you consider fellow muslims as your 'brothers'?

Wouldn't it be nice if that could be expanded to include all mankind as your brothers and sisters, rather than classing them as believers and non-believers?

And ... as a world family of brothers and sisters, and thus children of God (according to Abrahamic religion), so God, then, is our ... [fill in the gap].

There was an Arab scholar who said," You have people who are brothers and sisters through your faith, and you also have people who are equal to you."

Good character is a very important part of faith, and should be shown to all no matter the faith. This is one of the best ways of sharing your beliefs with another.

[eight bits]

Mr Walker

I dont even "get" your references to faking death etc.

In the Koran, at. 4: 157-158, Mohammed describes how Allah orchestrated a false Jewish belief that they crucified Jesus. It is an extraordinary passage, not only for hitting both Christians and Jews with one shot, but also for how it depists Allah congratulating himself for using falsehood to comfort his messenger, by deciving the people to whom the messenger was sent.

If you haven't read this passage, then of course that severly limits the possibility of our discussing it fruitfully.

In any case, the Nicene Christian view is that Jesus is God. The belief is well founded throughout John and elsewhere in the New Testament. It is clear that neither Jews nor Muslims believe that Jesus is their God.

Those that are the same have no differences among them. The Gods of the several Abrahamic scriptures have differences among them. Allah isn't the same as God in the Bible. It's a yes-or-no question, Mr Walker. The answer is no.

Edited June 23, 2012 by eight bits

[ZaraKitty]

They're all the same to me.

[Uncle Pockets]

Mr Walker

In the Koran, at. 4: 157-158, Mohammed describes how Allah orchestrated a false Jewish belief that they crucified Jesus. It is an extraordinary passage, not only for hitting both Christians and Jews with one shot, but also for how it depists Allah congratulating himself for using falsehood to comfort his messenger, by deciving the people to whom the messenger was sent.

If you haven't read this passage, then of course that severly limits the possibility of our discussing it fruitfully.

In any case, the Nicene Christian view is that Jesus is God. The belief is well founded throughout John and elsewhere in the New Testament. It is clear that neither Jews nor Muslims believe that Jesus is their God.

Those that are the same have no differences among them. The Gods of the several Abrahamic scriptures have differences among them. Allah isn't the same as God in the Bible. It's a yes-or-no question, Mr Walker. The answer is no.

Deceiving the people? These are the same people who came to Mariam R.A. and doubted the virgin birth of Jesus pbuh. Jesus pbuh continually found himself insulted on this issue when he invited people towards what is right. His stay may have been brief but the hardship experienced was a heavy burden.

The hadith's that speak of Jesus speak well of the doubt that the Apostles continually showed even with all of the miracles that Jesus pbuh was able to perform with the will of the Creator. Indeed, they planned against him but God is the greatest of planners. If you approach what happened with an open mind, it makes complete sense.

Allah (swt) clearly says: I am as my slave thinks I am.

[eight bits]

Deceiving the people? These are the same people who came to Mariam R.A. and doubted the virgin birth of Jesus pbuh. Jesus pbuh continually found himself insulted on this issue when he invited people towards what is right. His stay may have been brief but the hardship experienced was a heavy burden.

The passage I cited depicts Allah saying that he created a false appearance in order that the Jews would believe something that wasn't true. In English, that is called deception.

It is interesting that in a thread about the possible identity of the several religions' deities that you append "pbuh" to the name of the Nicene Christian God, Jesus. According to these Christians, Jesus isn't dead right now. There is no "peace" to be "upon him." He is, in their view but not yours, as alive as you or I are alive, no less so for now and hereafter being bodily incorruptible, and of course being God comes with its own perks.

If you approach what happened with an open mind, it makes complete sense.

I am agnostic, actually, more often criticized for an excess of open-mindedness than any want of it.. I didn't comment whether or not anything made sense, I only said what it was. Since the topic is the similariites and differences among the Abrahamic deities, this was on-topic. It illustrates a difference, one among many, between Jews and Muslims about how God behaves when he sends a messenger. Of course, from the Christian perspective, Jesus is nobody's message boy in the first place.

[Uncle Pockets]

Jesus pbuh made the supplication as a child, "Salam (peace) be upon me the day l was born, and the day l die and the day l shall be raised alive."

Your perception of it is your own. Best to find a scholarly explanation of the passage that you read.

A more fit thought to have is how we behaved when God sent messengers to us. Religion cannot be changed to fit our modern society. Innovation is a scary ordeal.

[Philangeli]

Religion cannot be changed to fit our modern society. Innovation is a scary ordeal.

Yes, it's very scary, like going from stoning women to death for supposed adultery, to giving them a fair say in court.

[Fox.Mulder]

Yep

the same God in the Holy Bible

in Islam there is no God except only one God

Same thing in Jews and Christians they and we Believe in one True God

but there is some mistake when they say that Jesus is a God ! Jesus he is nut a God he is one of God

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

[odas]

It is interesting that in a thread about the possible identity of the several religions' deities that you append "pbuh" to the name of the Nicene Christian God, Jesus. According to these Christians, Jesus isn't dead right now. There is no "peace" to be "upon him." He is, in their view but not yours, as alive as you or I are alive, no less so for now and hereafter being bodily incorruptible, and of course being God comes with its own perks.

In Islam a person does not realy die and muslims refer to someones death as "moving". Pbh we say to anyone who is not with us on this earth in the shell that we are used to see and identify someone as such. Therefore the person is not dead but has moved to another place until judgment day.

[eight bits]

In Islam a person does not realy die and muslims refer to someones death as "moving". Pbh we say to anyone who is not with us on this earth in the shell that we are used to see and identify someone as such. Therefore the person is not dead but has moved to another place until judgment day

Thank you for that, but the (Nicene) Christian view is that Jesus is currently in a shell, his body, the same sort of human body that eventually all people will have. His is more durable than our equipment, but it is a body, a human body, and it is his. Also, while Christians expect Jesus to appear on Judgment Day, he is not confined to heaven in the meantime.

For example, they believe that he appeared personally to Paul and spoke, obviously a bodily function and obviously indicating his bodily presence on Earth. That would be the same body in which he interacted with his other Apostles, after his Resurrection. To the extent that Jesus is usually in heaven nowadays, it is not because he died, but rather because he ascended there bodily, very much alive, after having been dead for a short while. Besides, he has duties in heaven to attend to, namely running the Universe, as God.

Christians, like Muslims, often wish peace on dead people (whom they believe to be spiritually alive, now possibly asleep or confined somewhere awaiting final judgment), and say along with their names formulae like "John, God rest his soul." (Exact formulae vary with culture, of course).

No Christian would ever say "Jesus, God rest his soul," or any such formula.

It is not my purpose to say that one person is right and the other is wrong. The question posed in the thread is "same or different?" Root and branch, from the most abstruse theology to the most common formula used when referring to the dead, Muslims and Christians worship different Gods.

[odas]

Yep

the same God in the Holy Bible

in Islam there is no God except only one God

Same thing in Jews and Christians they and we Believe in one True God

but there is some mistake when they say that Jesus is a God ! Jesus he is nut a God he is one of God

http://en.wikipedia..../Jesus_in_Islam

Many times people who speak arabic have tried to translate the term Allah and make it understandable to non arabs. The term Allah is derived from Al (the) and Illah (god) meaning The God, Allah. The Eshaded sais, Eshhedu en Lah illahe il Allah... There is no god but The God...

Yes, Allah, in pre-Islamic Mecca was one of many gods, regarded as possibly the supreeme god, hence was called the God. This needs further explanation by someone who is fluent in both, arabic and english.

Arabic speaking christians, jews use the term Allah. The Aramaic word for God is Elaha or Alaha. This word was very likely used by Jesus himself.

Hebrew and arabic are semitic languages hence the similarity of Allah and the bibilical Eloah.

We all, Jews, Christians (especialy them) and Muslims have to understand that our monontheistic religions have roots in pagan cultures where there were many gods but one that was the supreeme one. It is pointless to point fingers at the other believe system, mostly to hide irregularities within their own religion.

Above I singled out a bit the christian faith since some members of it are very strong in their accusations that Islam and Allah are not the same God as in the bible and that it is not an Abrahamic religion. I am not going to defend either one, they are able to defend themself, but ask a few questions in regard to Christian belief and the monotheistic abrahamic religion.

I am Lord, thy God

Does it say he is one ore a part of a trinity? In islam an judaism this is not the case.

Thou shall not have other gods

Again, how come christians believe in trinity since it implicates that there are more gods or one god assembled by three. ( Honestly no insult I just can not understand this as being opposit of the comandment, forgive my unintendent ignoracy) In judaism and islam this is not the case.

No graven immages or likenesses

How come christians have so many immages and likenesses ( unlike judaism and islam) . How come christians pray to the statues they have build to represent eith god or a deity they think it is?

How come christians can pray to regular people who they call saints?

It seems to me that few questions could be asked here to those who say that Islam is not an abrahamic religion and that Allah is not the same God as in the bible.. Why is christianity so much different from Judaism and Islam?

Why do christians pray to other gods or godlike statues?

Is christianity realy a monotheistic religion?

[Philangeli]

I was afraid this topic would wander off down other roads of counter-criticism - yes, some perfectly valid questions, but why not start a separate topic?

I've asked the question several times, but I don't think it has been answered:

If Allah is the same God as in the Bible, why did he exhort his messenger to attack others who already believed in Him? I posted the link earlier where there are dozens of examples in the Quran.

Edited June 25, 2012 by Philangeli

[Knight Of Shadows]

I was afraid this topic would wander off down other roads of counter-criticism - yes, some perfectly valid questions, but why not start a separate topic?

I've asked the question several times, but I don't think it has been answered:

If Allah is the same God as in the Bible, why did he exhort his messenger to attack others who already believed in Him? I posted the link earlier where there are dozens of examples in the Quran.

your question is lacking with all due respect

can you tell me who god in the bible is ? so we can answer you clearly ?