Hard times come with hard questions, and our cultural context exerts enormous pressure on Christians to affirm common ground at the expense of theological differences. But the cost of getting this question wrong is the loss of the Gospel.
If one can use Allah and explain what one means by it and this is a bridge for sharing Christian beliefs, by all means use it. If among a different group of people, it is inextricable from distinctively Islamic tenets, one may have to abandon it.
Long before Muhammad was born, Arabic Christians already were referring to God as Allah—and millions continue to do so today. The Allah of Islam, however, is definitely not the God of the Bible.
Like two acquaintances who think they are talking about the same mutual friend but aren't, so too are Christianity and Islam once you take out a picture of Jesus.
In his new book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi tell his own powerful story of the clash between Islam and Christianity. Learn how Qureshi's faith in Allah was dramatically conquered by the truth of Christ’s resurrection and deity (more at NabeelQureshi.com).
It is common today to hear people talk about a God of love, often connected with the idea that all religions teach about a God of love. But is that true?
As we seek to understand some of the major differences between Christianity and Islam, it is impossible to ignore 1,400 years of a conflicted history. It is a story more often written in blood than with ink.
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