When Muslims say “Allah” and Christians say “God,” we are both referring to the Creator God, who alone is God over all.
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Allah is the standard Arabic word for God and is used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews as well as by Muslims.
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It is also used by some Christians and others in areas which were ruled by the Ottoman Empire: Serbs, Romanians, Christian Albanians, Bulgarians and Macedonians say “машала” (“mašala”), often in the sense of “a job well done”; also some Georgians, Armenians, Bosnian Croats, Pontic Greeks (descendants of those that came …
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In addition to the personal name of God YHWH (pronounced with the vocalizations Yahweh or Jehovah), titles of God used by Christians include the Hebrew titles Elohim, El-Shaddai, and Adonai, as well as Ancient of Days, Father/Abba which is Hebrew, “Most High”.
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Muslims do not recognize the Old or the New Testament. They judge the Bible muharraf, or “falsified.” This does not mean that they do not know God, but it does mean that getting to a “yes” answer on the same God question is not as easy as pointing to the case of the Jews.
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Arabic-speaking Christians call God Allah, and Gideon bibles, quoting John 3:16 in different languages, assert that Allah sent his son into the world.
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Most mainstream Muslims would generally agree they worship the same God that Christians — or Jews — worship. Zeki Saritoprak, a professor of Islamic studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, points out that in the Quran there’s the Biblical story of Jacob asking his sons whom they’ll worship after his death.
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Indeed, Arabic-speaking Christians call God Allah. That may be jarring to modern day US Christians (who tend to think of Allah as “the god of Islam”), but the term existed in the Arabic world long before Islam arrived on the scene, and it is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew word Elohim.
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Jesus’ name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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In Abrahamic religions, eating pig flesh is clearly forbidden by Jewish (kashrut), Islamic (haram,) and Adventist (kosher animals) dietary laws. Although Christianity is also an Abrahamic religion, most of its adherents do not follow these aspects of Mosaic law and are permitted to consume pork.
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It is typical in the speech of Arab Christians, for instance, although they may occasionally substitute religious expressions that are specific to the Christian community. It is most typically used to express hope that a certain future event will come about, like the English-language expression God willing.
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For Muslims, the term — which translates to “If God wills” — is auspicious: If you want something to happen, you should say inshallah before you say anything else about it.
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Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
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The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
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The Qur’an is the sacred scripture of Islam, and is believed by Muslims to be God’s final revelation to humankind. The Qur’an was revealed in Arabic to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel over a period of 22 years, beginning in 610 CE and ending in 632 CE.
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He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man’s height at the time.
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The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues. He preached from Jewish text, from the Bible.
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Mainstream Bible translations in the language use Allah as the translation of Hebrew Elohim (translated in English Bibles as “God”). This goes back to early translation work by Francis Xavier in the 16th century.
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The name of God used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew: יהוה, romanized: YHWH). Jews traditionally do not pronounce it, and instead refer to God as HaShem, literally “the Name”. In prayer, the Tetragrammaton is substituted with the pronunciation Adonai, meaning “My Lord”.
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Knowing that versions written in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament does predate the Quran, Christians reason the Quran as being derived directly or indirectly from the earlier materials.
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Christianity developed out of Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE. It is founded on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and those who follow it are called Christians. Islam developed in the 7th century CE.
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So, yes, Muslims believe in the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ as given to us in the Qur’an and as exemplified in the life model of Prophet Muhammed.
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