"Allah vs. God
Allah is not a personal god:
◦ As Islam scholar Jamal J. Elias points out, “Human Beings can know God through his attributes (such as mercy, justice, compassion, wrath, and so on), but the ultimate essence of God remains unknowable.” There is no personal fellowship to the Allah of the Quran. The main emphasis in Islam is not personal fellowship with God, but rather service, obedience and allegiance to him. There is no concept of God as father at all.
◦ In other words, Allah does not personally manifest himself to those he is “close” to.
Allah is not Triune:
◦ Allah is not a Trinity according to the Koran, “O People of the Book [Bible], exceed not the limits of your religion…And say not, Three [Trinity]. Desist, it is better for you. Allah is only one God.” (Sura 4:171)
◦ The Koran says, “They are unbelievers who say, ‘God is the Third of Three. No god is there but one God.’” (Sura 5:73)
Allah does not love sinners:
◦ “And Allah loves not an ungrateful sinner.” (Sura 2:276)
◦ “Allah surely loves not the disbelievers.” (Sura 3:32)
◦ “Surely Allah loves not such as are proud, boastful.” (Sura 4:36)
◦ “Surely He [Allah] loves not the prodigals.” (Sura 6:141)
◦ The concept that Allah does not love sinners is repeated twenty-four times in the Koran.
This is quite different from the God of the Bible. Over and over again, we read of God’s personal message of love, salvation and grace to mankind.
The Christian God is personal and knowable:
◦ John 17:3 says, “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
◦ In Eph. 1:5, we are also adopted into the family of God, “having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself”
◦ And we can address God as Father:
• In Matthew 6:9 Jesus teaches us, “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven”
• Romans 8:15 says, “but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’”
As Dr. John MacArthur points out, “Abba is an informal Aramaic term for Father, connoting intimacy, tenderness, dependence… Modern English equivalents would be Daddy, or Papa.”
The God of the Bible is Triune:
The unity of the Three can be seen in the following verses:
◦ Matt. 28:19 – “baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
◦ 1 Cor. 12:4-6 – “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences in ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God [the Father]”
◦ 2 Cor. 13:14 – “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.”
◦ Eph. 2:18 – “For through Him [Christ] we both have access by one Spirit to the Father...” Full text: Apologetics: Islam
lain: His wrath was not meant for you. Why will you die the second death? Jn 3:36, Re 20:14. Hell was created for the devil and his angels (Mt 25:41).
