Friday, February 03, 2006

Who is Allah, anyway?

In the news recently there seems to be a misunderstanding that I believe needs to be discussed. It seems to me from listening and reading the news lately that everyone accepts that Allah, the god of Islam, is also the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Judaism, the Father Of Jesus the Christ, the God of Christianity. This is just not so and the proof is so easy to see.

As I understand it, in Islam Jesus is just a prophet, but with less authority than Mohammed. In Judaism He is nothing special, yet. In Christianity he is the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the savior of the whole world. But here is something that puts Judaism and Christianity closer to the same page. The Jewish God is the Father of the Christian God, making Jesus equal to God. Here is the tie that binds Judaism with Christianity that is missing between Islam and Judaism.

So, Allah cannot be Yaweh. The two systems of religious thought are in such opposition to each other they could not have arisen from the same source. The Prophet Yeshua Meschiach, Jesus to you, once said, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined...," Matthew 12:25.

So, since we see with our own eyes the followers of Allah hating and pursuing the destruction of the followers of Yaweh, it seems logical to me that Yaweh and Allah are not two names for the same Creator of us all.

So I ask the question, since I know who Yaweh is, who is Allah? And another question might be since all gods are imaginary, who cares?

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