What Do Arab Christians Call God?

correction, Hausa call Him Ubangiji, its the muslims that call their god Allah

yes, You may be rite about that, but that's simply because of the prevailing diction. it's a well known fact that the allah of the muslims and the Jehovah God of the Jews and Christians CANNOT be the same Person.

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i don't quite agree with you there, i believe we all serve the same God regardless of religion or beliefs. Arabic christians call God Allah, the same God that muslims also serve. I don't think you should be so biased on your views about religion, u sound like an extremist. Also please note that God or Allah is not a person, he is the supreme being, cheers.

Allah is the arabic word for God. The only thing is that the personality attached to the name is different for christians and muslims.

Allah of course, since we ar talking about language nt religion

The word ALLAH is the Arabic word for God, whether the person is an Arabic Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc.


This has nothing to do with religion or whatever. Afterall, one would not say Igbos don't worship God, but Chineke, while both are the same only that Chineke is the Igbo word for God.

Debosky, while you're not entirely wrong about Hausas calling God "Ubangiji", that is just one of their praise names for God. Primarily, God is called Allah by Hausa christians. It is just like God has several symbolic names in English language: Creator, Lord, Father, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Ancient of Days, etc etc.

  He sounds like an "extremist" for daring to say that the christian God is not the same as the muslim god?

Yes arab christians call God allah as that is the language . . .  but they know that the allah they worship is radically different from that of the quran. It is not a question of bias or extremism (the language of shallow muslims afraid to question their quran), it is simply a matter of doctrine.
No matter how "unbiased" you pretend to be even a 5yr old knows the quran and bible could not have originated from the same source.

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what makes you think or say that the christian God is manipulative,inconsistent and hypocritical???hmmmmmmn words !

  you go hear from me tomorrow!! 

i must say im rather disappointed in you, how can you classify Allah as a muslim god, its really a shame. all i can say is that if you don't try to learn or understand other peoples beliefs, you may reamin biased forever, ill recommend a book for you, the complete idiot's guide to understanding Islam, check it out on the net. maybe then ull understand just how radical you sound. Even pastors preach against bias, u should try to understand where other people are coming from and not judge just because u dnt understand.

What then is Allah? the hindu or Rosicrucian god? Did you ever stop to think at all before expressing your "disappointment" and "shame"?


Honestly i admit a complete impossibility to understand the tripe you have written here. Since when has it become "bias" to declare that the christian God is different from that of the quran?
What is "radical" in declaring the truth that the God who inspired the bible CANNOT/CAN NEVER BE the same god who claims to have inspired the insipid quran? Pastors preach against "bias" but have you wondered what kind of bias? Please show me a church that uses the quran alongside the bible!

What have i judged? that Jesus Christ, Lord and Saviour of the christian faith is NOT the same as the allah in the quran?

I am honestly flummoxed at your silly resort to adhominems and knee-jerk reaction to an obvious issue. Perhaps you need to read the very book you recommended. . . The cardinal point of the bible is the death and resurrection of God who came down in human flesh, the quran clearly rejects this and yet you cry about "bias, judging and radicality" for pointing out these glaring differences?

Am i allowed to wonder why people are so quick to insult people when they express opposing oppinions?

@ davidylan,

God ( by whatever name you call him) CANNOT DIE. If yours came to eartyh and then tasted death (which he created by the way) then you are correct that can not be the same Creator of heaven, earth and all there is that Arabs (its just a language bro!) call Allah.

And the capital G thing, as you can see grammar even affects the God spelling, so its just that, language.

And i understand your firm stand on your faith, its good. i mean if your pastor came upon sunday with a salamu alaykun greeting in church wouldnt you think he was possesed?

live your faith bro, God (Allah, Chi, Olorun, Jehova) etc) knows whom best serve him.

Davidylan

It is because of people like you that the world is the way it is

Your mindset is no different from the BinLadens of this world.

I wonder how many virgins you hope to win in heaven though.

nah, we live in an age of denial and it is precisely because of those who choose to bury their heads in the sand rather than confront issues of controversy that the world is today in upheaval no thanks to dear old "peaceful" allah.

The bible does not tell me to await any heavenly virgins, infact it precisely makes me understand that there will be no marriage in heaven so those seeking eternal erotic pleasures had better look elsewhere. I hear allah promises that in his own heaven. Ask him.