Use of the Arabic Word "allah" in Christian Witness to Muslims

Submitted by John Marion (United States), Jun 20, 2008 at 19:14

I wrote an article about the use of the Arabic word "allah" in Christian witness to Muslims a while back. It's available online here: http://www.truthformuslims.com/articles/marion_2005_07_25_arabic_allah.htm.

A link from that page shows a scanned page from an Arabic - English Bible using the Arabic word "allah: in John 3:16 and a scanned page from the Dari (Afghan Farsi / Afghan Persian) New Testament which uses the Persian word "khodah" for God, which is used both by Muslims and Christians in Persian speaker areas (Iran - Farsi, Afghanistan - Dari, Tajikistan - Tajik) instead of the word "allah."

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