Hi Cariad, be patient and I will be your teacher!
Since I am an Arabic guy and I master the language, no one can fool me with my language.
I have copied these 2 paragraphs from that link:
"Remember, this is a name, a proper noun. In this case, since there is no equivalent, we had better keep it as is (note: the Jews never changed YHWH�s name to �Adonai�, meaning �Lord�. They simply substituted �Adonai� for it when reading aloud, initially out of not wanting to desecrate the sacred Name, but later out of tradition)
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In summary, ArabBible uses the definite, common noun, �al-ilaah� to refer to God, rather than the Islamic proper noun, �Allah�. We believe this is based on good Biblical and linguistic precedents. Though this will certainly cause some shock waves�
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The second part is not right. The Arabic Christian believe the name of their god is "Allah". So if you as a Christian do not believe in Allah as a name of your creator then you are contradicting your fellow Arabic Christian. I think you must know how Allah is written in Arabic. Read the link below from a page in the Arabic Bible and see how many times have been mentioned:
http://www.injeel.com/Read.aspx?vn=1,3&t=1
Also you can try the dictionary of the Aramaic language on line, Jesus's language, write the word god and read the results:
http://www.atour.com/ go down a little in the page to see the dictionary window
About the first part, pls read these 2 articles in the links:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/allah1.htm and
http://www.answering-christianity.com/moongod1.htm
Also I have a question for you: Is that easy to change the words of god in the Bible by people? And you still call it the word of God
Exodus 20:07 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name".
Also the word "YHWH" are 4 capital letters, this way is not used in the English language, which it means they are abbreviations of something, or just a simple.
The concept of Trinity is very easy to be understood. The Amazing thing about Christians is that: the Jews (who believe in Moses), Sabea Mandae (who believe in John) and Muslims (who believe in Mohammed), they are all on the opposite of you in their concepts of faith.
Which verse(s)?
Y not, an academic one
Thats fine for me... You can call me for Christianity, but I need a book that has not been changed by mankind to follow ((This is my condition)).
Peace to you
BRMM
Salaam Alaikom, we make assumptions about each other, ya. hope you are not offended by the link as not all muslims have Arabic I speak some but writing not so good. I don't know how you work those quotes in posts so I will try and address your points as made.
Firstly the name. What's in a name? Yahweh used by Hebrews to mean God..not name of God. Jehovah is a mistranslation of Hebrew. Yahweh is the secret name of the Jews revealed to Moses. El is the head of the Babylonian Gods (Elohim; plural for God. Meaning the "Gods.")
El, made a covenant with the Jews and in doing so they promised to worship only him in exchange for some land. Originally the Jews were Henotheistic. They worshiped one god out of many.
You will find God called by many more names in the bible. In many cases these are compounds of 'El."
"El the great." "El the mighty." and so on.
Eloi's actual meaning is "My God" "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" I have never heard Eloi spelled Aloi..so you see it as Allah. But even that is the case Allah is not name but title, meaning God. Do you think God needs to be called by name? God knows himself and he knows who is true to him not by what name they call him by but how they perceive him in their hearts.
�Jehovah� is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name but is not correct. �Yahweh� is favored by most Hebrew scholars. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants, commonly called the Tetragrammaton (from Greek te‧tra-, meaning �four,� and gram′ma, �letter�). These four letters when transliterated into English as YHWH (or, JHVH). The Hebrew consonants of the name are therefore known, but which vowels are to be combined with those consonants? Vowel points did not come into use in Hebrew until the second half of the first millennium also because of a religious superstition that had begun centuries earlier, the vowel pointing found in Hebrew manuscripts does not provide the key for determining which vowels should appear in the divine name. So it is commonly represented by the four consonants YHWH.
Your question why we trust the Bible, easy answer because God promised he would keep the scriptures safe. It doesn't matter how many people penned the words those words were penned under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Gods promise is good enough for me and you cannot prove the claims you make.
Regarding the divinity of Christ New Testament is full of references to the divinity of Christ.
(Titus 2:13) (Philippians 2:5-8) (Hebrews 1:8). Jesus is directly referred to as the Creator Himself (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17). Other biblical passages teach Christ's deity (Revelation 1:7, 2:8; 1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 5:4).
By His actions (Mark 2:3-12). Jesus also receives worship several times in the Gospels (Matthew 2:11, 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38; 20:28).
By fulfilment of prophecy. (1 Corinthians 15:3-7; Matthew 28:9; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:26-30, 21:1-14; Acts 1:3-6). Many of these witnesses were willing to die for this belief, and several of them did!
There is not a book on earth which has been penned by men that will not bear the mark of men. You make the claim for the Quran yet how can you prove? It has to be a matter of faith. How do you know that the Quran is unchanged as Mohammed gave it? What is the destruction of the Uthman Qurans, possible something was lost. One only has ones faith in God that the essence of his word is true. God is not in a book he writes his message on the hearts of men he guides where he wills.