Christian/Muslim ThreadsAllah used By Christians and Jews before Islam ?Karaite wrote:I know the Hebrew language, and by what it seems, I know it much better than you. The term El is a generic term for God, not just the god of Israel, but ANY GOD! It is for the most part, used to "indicate" or "speak" of the God of Israel, but that is not the NAME! It is a title, an attribute of this god, that is "ruler" of the world. That is why in their chants, they usually say "king of the universe". In fact, God called Moses by that same word, Elohim.
It is not the name of God, it is a term for god, ruler, mighty, judge.
Now here you go again. What does that have to do with what I said
H2O wrote:Does that answer your question ? I am not the only muslim that hold this view either, Nor have I ever seen a Jew or Christian say this, the closes is that Allah is synonym of Yhwh asocciating the word with "el/il"
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(Arabic: “God”), the one and only God in the religion of Islam. Etymologically, the name Allah is probably a contraction of the Arabic al-Ilah, “the God.” The name's origin can be traced back to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for god was Il or El, the latter being an Old Testament synonym for Yahweh. Allah is the standard Arabic word for “God” and is used by Arab Christians as well as by Muslims.
www.britannica.com
Even thus is contradicted by the Arabic Lexicons
Does it sound like I was agreeing to what the britannica was saying? I was showing what is said about it not agreeing about it.
Over and Over you keep making statements that I never said. I guess it shows your backwardness in paying attention to what I post.
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