Origin of Allah(Al-illah)

[DeistPaladin]

I will mention this on another thread which I intend to open later "Similarities between Islam and Christianity."

I look forward to this discussion. My experiences so far in reading the Koran is a sense of deja vu. Muslim apologists that I've exchanged posts with on YouTube sound nearly identical to their Christian counterparts, using the same faulty reasoning and strikingly similar canned answers. Christians who claim that Muslims worship a different god, as you've already said to Godschild, clearly know nothing of Islam.

It seems to me that Muhammad did to Jesus exactly what the followers of Jesus did to John the Baptist. When incorporating a religion, it's usually most effective to adopt their iconic figures and make them servants to yours. The early Christians were rivals of the Mandaens, followers of JtB. The Gospel of Mark appears to try to co opt them by making JtB submit to Jesus. Subsequent Gospels see John kneeling lower and lower, taking a less significant role until the Gospel of John glosses over his role completely. JtB never baptizes Jesus in the Gospel of John! He only recognizes Jesus as the Messiah.

Same thing was done to Paul in the Book of Acts. Paul was the primary prophet for the Marcionite Christians and he noticeably takes a passive, submissive role in Acts (in contrast to his willful and prideful nature in his epistles).

Muhammad seemed to learn well from these examples. If you can't annihilate, assimilate.