Quran Issues
Allah is the same God worshiped by Christians, as both the Arabic Bible and the Quran refer to Him as Allah.
Quick answer
While both the Arabic Bible and the Quran use the term 'Allah', the origins and characteristics attributed to Allah in Islam differ significantly from the God of Christianity. The historical context reveals that the Allah worshiped by Muhammad's tribe had pagan roots, which contradicts the biblical understanding of God as revealed in Scripture.
Full argument
Key verses
Deuteronomy 32:16-17bible
They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to demons, which are not God...
1 Corinthians 10:19-21bible
Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God...
2 Corinthians 6:14-16bible
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
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