Why Allah and Yahweh are different?
The names and character of Allah The Qur’an refers to Allah as the Lord of the Worlds. Unlike the biblical Yahweh (sometimes misread as Jehovah), he has no personal name, and his traditional 99 names are really epithets. These include the Creator, the King, the Almighty, and the All-Seer.
Are Yahweh and El the same God?
El was the name of the god of Israel in the Bronze Age and Yahweh becomes the proper name of the god of the Israelites in the Iron Age.
What is Allah called in Hebrew?
In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means “the god”, and is linguistically related to the Hebrew words El (Elohim), Elah and the Aramaic word ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlâhâ) for God.
Is Yahweh also El Elyon?
The father and manager of the gods, El Elyon, is still around; he just becomes redundant. With no gang of gods to run anymore, he goes into retirement. Yahweh is the last god standing in effect. Also, “El” and “Elyon” are the same god, “El Elyon” actually, and El Elyon is a different god than Elohim (Yahweh).
Who is the father of Yahweh?
El (deity)
| El | |
|---|---|
| King of the Gods | |
| Gilded statuette of El from Megiddo | |
| Other names | El Elyon El Shaddai El Olam Adon Ilim Toru El Abu Bani Eli Batniu Binwati Abu Adami Qaniyunu Olam Hatikuka Abu Shamima El Gibbor |
| Symbol | Bull |
What is the difference between Yahweh and God?
Yahweh is the one true God of Judaism. Jesus, Yahweh and the Holy Spirit are three persons making up the Godhood (altogether called the trinity) in Christianity. Allah is the God of Islam, and is supposed to be the same God of the biblical old testament.
Where is Yahweh from?
Yahweh is the name of the state god of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and, later, the Kingdom of Judah. His name is composed of four Hebrew consonants (YHWH, known as the Tetragrammaton) which the prophet Moses is said to have revealed to his people.
Is Allah just another name for Yahweh?
Similarly, for some Christians, Allah is just another name for the one God of the universe. For others, however, the Muslim Allah and the biblical Yahweh are contradictory and cannot refer to the same being, for, they say, “how can the God of Muhammad be the Father of Jesus Christ?”
Is Allah the same God as God of the universe?
This is similar to the word “Allah.” For most Muslims, Allah is the only God and therefore must be the same God as the one that the Jews and Christians worship. Similarly, for some Christians, Allah is just another name for the one God of the universe.
Why don’t Christians believe that Allah is Yahweh?
Allah is Yahweh. I think the inclusion of Jesus throughout the Qur’an is one of the reasons Christians (and others) vehemently reject the idea that Allah is Yahweh. Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet of Allah and they do not believe in the Trinity. Christians worship Jesus as God and Jesus IS Yahweh according to the Trinity dogma.
Is Yahweh the only God in the Qur’an?
Notice here that now, instead of Yahweh, the name Jehovah is substituted. The Qur’an also insists there no god but One God. In the Qur’an, however, we notice two significant differences from the previous scriptures.