For many years it has been assumed by many that‎Christians and Muslims served the same God, that its only
in the mode of worship or language involved that they ‎differed. That belief is however being challenged today by ‎the upsurge of islamic attacks and persecution of the ‎Christian faith in many parts of the world. Logically, when ‎there are two opposing religious views, both cannot be ‎true and cannot be from the same source. 
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Perhaps in an ‎attempt to evade this chasm, Muhammad tried to psyche
the Christians and Jews of his time 

“…Our God is the ‎same as your God, and we are surrendered unto
him” (sura 29:45). 

But elsewhere, this gnomic claim is
quickly thrown aside where he says to Christians “…the ‎Law and the gospel and all the revelation that has come‎ to you from YOUR LORD” (5:68).
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 A way to approach the ‎issue is to compare the God revealed in the Quran with the ‎God who has revealed Himself in the Bible. The God of the ‎Bible is called Yahweh nearly 9,000 times but Allah is not ‎called by that name even once in the Quran. While God is ‎referred to as Elohim more than 2,500 times in the Bible, ‎the word never appears for Allah in the Quran. 

God ‎revealed Himself to Moses as “the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob” and He told Moses “this is my name for ever, ‎and this is my memorial unto all generations” (Ex 3:15).
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But Allah was never addressed as this even once. The ‎God of the Bible is called “the God of Israel”. He calls the ‎Jews His chosen people. He says they are “the apple of
[My] eye” (Zec 2: and gave the land of Israel to them as ‎an inheritance forever as the Bible shows. But the Allah of ‎Islam has a special hatred against the the Jews. 

In Sura ‎5:51, muslims are warned: “Take not the Jews and
Christians as friends…” I‎n Sura 98:6, Jews are called “the
worst of creatures” and “the vilest of animals in Allah’s ‎sight” (8:55). Sura 5:78 also says the children of Israel
are cursed by the tongue of David and of Jesus. 

Would ‎Jesus curse His own brothers in the flesh blessed by God? ‎No. 

Allah can’t be the same as the God speaking in the ‎Bible. In several places in Scripture, God chose Jerusalem ‎as His holy city. Forty times He calls Jerusalem “the city
of David” and repeated promised that the Messiah will be ‎descended from David and rule on David’s throne in ‎Jerusalem over the world (2Chr. 6:6, 33:7, Ps 89:3-29).
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Never does the Bible refer to Mecca or Medina, whereas ‎Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times. 
The God of the Bible ‎has a Son. Psalm 2:12 says “Kiss the Son…” Proverbs ‎30:4 says of God “What is His name and what is HIS
SON’S name…?” Angel Gabriel told Mary that Jesus is
“the Son of the Highest” and “the Son of God” who will sit
on “the throne of His father David” – a throne that is
definitely not in Mecca (Lk 1:31-35).

 But Allah says: ‎“They say Allah has a son? NEVER!…”(2:116) “…Far be it
that he should have a son” (4:171). Concerning Christians ‎who insist that Jesus is the Son of God, the Quran says: ‎“Allah’s curse be upon them! How they are deluded away
from the truth!” (9:30). 

Allah can’t be the God of the Bible.
God revealed Himself as a Father. But no where in the ‎Quran is Allah called a “father”. He is not a father, he has ‎no Son and he is not a Spirit. While man was made in ‎God’s likeness (Gen 1:25-27), the Quran says there is ‎nothing in Allah’s likeness (Q 112:4). 

In the Bible, God ‎revealed Himself to Abraham (Gen 18), Jacob (28:13),
Moses and the 70 elders of Israel (Ex 24:10) and in the ‎Person of Jesus Christ. He desires all men to know and ‎love Him. But Allah has never manifested himself or‎
spoken to anyone. 
He is a remote and unknowable deity.‎ 

While the God of the Bible is the essence of love (“God is
love…”1Jn. 4: , nowhere is Allah called love. The name ‎“Allah” is not the Arabic name for God. The name cannot ‎even be translated into French as Dieu or Spanish as
Dios. Some modern Muslims use “God” in place of “Allah” ‎in their speech, but that still does not make Allah the ‎same as the God revealed in Scripture.

 We could both be ‎calling someone “Mike” yet not referring to the same
person. People ask: “what about the name ‘Allah’ in the ‎Arabic Bible?” The Arabic Bible was a translation made ‎around 900 A. D. which was 3 centuries after Islam ‎emerged. The translators used that name for God due to ‎political pressure because this was the name the people
had been familiar with for long. But no writer of the Bible ‎ever called God by that name for it was neither a Hebrew ‎nor Greek name for God. 

Many Arab Christians today ‎prefer to use the Persian name “Khoda” for God. Even ‎Hausa Christians now use the name Uban-giji and not ‎Allah for God. Muslims in Malaysia have even convinced ‎the government to ban the non-muslim use of the name ‎“Allah”. Allah is not the God of the Bible, but a false god.‎
(Credit-Victor Ayeni Salvador)‎

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