STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON"T SHINE!
You question my religion yet who the hell are you?
Just because I support the President does not make me an idiot. You profess you voted for him twice so what does that make you? You talk of me knowing little about the President well you know jack about me so do not try to surmise over a few post here at Greybeards you can have me figured out or what my beliefs are. I can go on line and all day fine references to Allah in the Bible and remarks of Scholars that say what I have posted. So they are all wrong just because little old dee does not agree I do not think so. Another Example:
This article originally appeared in the
The BibleTranslator:Technical Papers,
Vol. 52:3 (July 2001), 301-305.
Reprinted by permission.
Kenneth J. Thomas is a UBS
(United Bible Societies) Translation
Consultant based in New York.
The question is asked by certain groups whether Allah can validly
be used to translate words for God in the Bible. It is inconceivable
to many that a word that is commonly associated with the Islamic
religion would be found in a Christian Bible. There are some English speakers,
for example, who say that the words Allah and God refer to different
deities and therefore that Allah should never be used in any translation of the
Bible. One person who has written a book arguing against the use of Allah by
Christians is a Nigerian, G. J. O. Moshay. In his book, Who Is This Allah?, he
writes, “For long we had assumed that Christians and Muslims serve the same
God, and that it is only in the language of expression and mode of worship
that they differ.”1 But he concludes that they are not the same. Significantly,
this objection does not come from traditional Arab Christians, most of whom
live in the Islamic heartland.
The basic question is whether the word “Allah” can be considered a generic
term for the supreme being that can be used to translate elohim or theos, which
are themselves generic terms in Hebrew and Greek. The Arab philologists discussed
the etymology of the word at great length. Some held that it was a loan
word from Syriac or Hebrew, but most regarded it as a contraction of al ilāh
(“the god”).2 Western scholars are fairly unanimous that the source of the word
Allah probably is through Aramaic from the Syriac alāhā (“the god”).3 In either
case, the Arabs used the word Allah for the supreme being before the time of
Muhammad.4 Inscriptions with Allah have been discovered in Northern and
Southern Arabia from as early as the fifth century b.c.5 Christians have used
the word Allah from pre-Islamic times, and Allah has been used continuously
in Arabic translations of the Bible from the earliest known versions in the
eighth century to this day. One Arabic translation of the New Testament using
the word may even be pre-Islamic.6
Jews, Christians, and Muslims have used Allah in their citations and translations
of the Bible since the first centuries of Islam. Jewish commentators writing
in Arabic used Allah in their translations and citations. Sa´adiah Ga`on b.
Joseph, a 9th-10th century a.d. Rabbanite translator of the Hebrew into Arabic
(using Hebrew characters), used Allah for elohim. For example, for Genesis 1:4
I do not support Muslums nor have I ever. However you and others here with your nitpicking the President because of his remarks on we all worship the same God is wrong as I have shown proof to the contrary. Wether you want to believe it or not us your perogative. I know who God is I used the Internet for examples for my post not because I do not know God. I could give a rats ass if you do not agree with me but your can take your insinuations that I am not smart and stick them!