My friend, I fully agree that Islam is a false religion. I would sooner die than confess its false teachings. I’m an Orthodox Christian who confesses one God in the three Persons of the Holy Trinity and confesses Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man.
My point is that my brothers in Christ who worship in Arabic use the word Allah to refer to God, because that is the word for God in Arabic!
We know that the God of the Bible is Allah when we’re speaking in Arabic, because that’s how you say God in Arabic! The god confessed by Muslims is false, but just as in English, the presence of false religions that refer to “God” doesn’t mean that right-believing Christians are forbidden to use the word “God” to refer to the true God!
Orthodox Christians around the world sing the Trisagion Hymn before the reading of the Epistle and Gospel during the Divine Liturgy (the Sunday morning worship service). It is Trinitarian. I myself have been the chanter singing this in these three languages, as is done in Arabic speaking Orthodox churches in the US. We’re saying the EXACT same thing in all three.
Arabic:
قدوسٌ الله ،
قدوسٌ القوي ،
قدوسٌ الذي لا يموت إرحمنا
Quduson Allah,
Quduson il-qawi,
Quduson alladi,
La ya mut irhamna.
English:
Holy God,
Holy Mighty,
Holy Immortal,
have mercy on us.
You’re welcome, and I forgive you! It’s not easy being an Arab Christian in America (I am not one but was in a bilingual parish for a few years). American-born Christians often don’t realize that such a thing exists, which causes a lot of confusion with things like this and the issue of Palestine.
My friend, I fully agree that Islam is a false religion. I would sooner die than confess its false teachings. I’m an Orthodox Christian who confesses one God in the three Persons of the Holy Trinity and confesses Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man.
My point is that my brothers in Christ who worship in Arabic use the word Allah to refer to God, because that is the word for God in Arabic!
We know that the God of the Bible is Allah when we’re speaking in Arabic, because that’s how you say God in Arabic! The god confessed by Muslims is false, but just as in English, the presence of false religions that refer to “God” doesn’t mean that right-believing Christians are forbidden to use the word “God” to refer to the true God!
Orthodox Christians around the world sing the Trisagion Hymn before the reading of the Epistle and Gospel during the Divine Liturgy (the Sunday morning worship service). It is Trinitarian. I myself have been the chanter singing this in these three languages, as is done in Arabic speaking Orthodox churches in the US. We’re saying the EXACT same thing in all three.
Arabic: قدوسٌ الله ، قدوسٌ القوي ، قدوسٌ الذي لا يموت إرحمنا Quduson Allah, Quduson il-qawi, Quduson alladi, La ya mut irhamna.
English: Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.
Greek: Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός, Ἅγιος ἰσχυρός, Ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς Agios O Theos, Agios Iskhiros, Agios Athanatos, eleison imas.
Forgive me, I misread you. Thank you for educating me. I appreciate you.
I see, in the form of a noun that refers to the person of the One true God, not as the name of a false idol.
You’re welcome, and I forgive you! It’s not easy being an Arab Christian in America (I am not one but was in a bilingual parish for a few years). American-born Christians often don’t realize that such a thing exists, which causes a lot of confusion with things like this and the issue of Palestine.