Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

Arabic-speaking Christians called God "Allah" before Islam existed, and they still do. Allah is not a name — it is the Arabic word for God, the way Dieu is the French one, and it appears in Arabic Bibles on the first line of Genesis.

In this video: what the word actually is and where it comes from (al-ilah, "the god", cognate with Hebrew Eloah), why that settles the linguistic question and not the theological one, and where the real disagreement sits — which is not over the word at all.

The word is the easy part. It always was.

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