Yeah, I’ve seen this claim before as well, and I don’t agree or disagree with either, and am not equating “Allah” to either the Christian or the Hebrew Elohim. I don’t have an answer on what it is or what caused the Koran.
However, the name they gave him might be an Arabic corruption of the generic Hebrew noun for God, and that generic noun is used to refer to other gods (little g) in the Bible in source texts, so it’s possible that the words are similar enough that it could be a crude translation (but not referring to the same entity).
If it is a “moon god” though I believe it would be called an (other) “elohim”, in Hebrew.
To be clear, I am definitely not saying “the Koran is holy scripture!” It’s a corruption of such. I have a few posts about quirks like, while it does seem to cite the Bible on many issues, and I believe it deems the Bible to be authoritative, and considers Jesus a legitimate prophet, it then teaches not to read any of those source documents because they’ve been corrupted, and garbles the commands pretty significantly. Definitely do your own research and double check me on all this, it’s not a strong subject of mine, though I’ve looked into it.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with the claim, but it’s noticeable that Elohim/Aluahym (“God”) and “Allah” (-hym) are similar words.
Their book and main teachings definitely have a lot of corruptions of scripture though.
Now, “a god” would also definitely be able to masquerade as THE God.
Of course, Wikipedia is not always the authority. But here it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah_as_a_lunar_deity
Yeah, I’ve seen this claim before as well, and I don’t agree or disagree with either, and am not equating “Allah” to either the Christian or the Hebrew Elohim. I don’t have an answer on what it is or what caused the Koran.
However, the name they gave him might be an Arabic corruption of the generic Hebrew noun for God, and that generic noun is used to refer to other gods (little g) in the Bible in source texts, so it’s possible that the words are similar enough that it could be a crude translation (but not referring to the same entity).
If it is a “moon god” though I believe it would be called an (other) “elohim”, in Hebrew.
To be clear, I am definitely not saying “the Koran is holy scripture!” It’s a corruption of such. I have a few posts about quirks like, while it does seem to cite the Bible on many issues, and I believe it deems the Bible to be authoritative, and considers Jesus a legitimate prophet, it then teaches not to read any of those source documents because they’ve been corrupted, and garbles the commands pretty significantly. Definitely do your own research and double check me on all this, it’s not a strong subject of mine, though I’ve looked into it.
Thank you. Finally, we have to make up our own mind. I trust the Bible. That's where I go to.
Anything else, it has to agree with the Bible.
I will definitely look into it because I have actually live in the Northern Africa where they are Muslim countries.