Differences between YaHuWaH and Allah.

YaHuWaH Elohim (God) of the Bible, that is His name forever (Exodus 3:15, Isaiah 42:8). His shortened name is Yah. Allah Ilah (God) of the Quran. That is his name (Surah Fateeha, the Shahadah). NB: YaHuWaH is the name of the God of Israel, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Jews of old, after Babylonian captivity (6BC), due to reasons like; regarding that name ineffable and very holy and also due to universality, substituted this name which the name Adonai in all Hebrew Scriptures (Torah and Gospel). This Hebrew name Adonai has reached to us after translations as The Lord in English. More than 6800 times in the Scriptures of Truth is the name of God of Israel translated into The Lord or The Lord God from YaHuWaH or YaHuWaH Elohim. YahuShua is the name that Angel Gabriel gave Miriam to name the child we know in English bibles as Jesus.

1. Yah is described as God of Love, loving all people and wanting all of them to come to Him in repentance because all are sinners. What is the greatest act of love Allah has ever accomplished? Yah gave His begotten Son to die for all men. Some of verses showing this attribute of God are quoted below Come now, and let us reason together, saith YaHuWaH: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18) For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) Say unto them, As I live, saith YaHuWaH Elohim, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (Ezekiel 33:11) ...God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16b). Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30) As of Allah, of all his attributes in the Quran, unconditional Love is not mentioned as his core attribute, he mostly loves those who follow him. The Quran, unlike the Bible does not encourage love of strangers or any others who are not 'believers in Allah and his prophet'. The reason for the almost total absence in the Quran of the concept of spiritual love, resides in the fact that the followers of Mohammed fear their god Allah, while in the Judeo- Christian traditions, they LOVE the GOD OF ISRAEL. Some of the verses revealing this attribute of Allah are as follows; Whoever is an enemy to Allah, His Angels, His Messengers, Jibril and Michael, then verily, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers.(2:98) Say: Obey Allah and the Messenger; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not love the unbelievers. (3:32) Contend not on behalf of such as betray their own souls; for Allah loveth not one given to perfidy and sin. (4:107) Those who reject Faith and do wrong,- Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to any way- Except the way of Hell, to dwell therein for ever. And this to Allah is easy. (4:168-169)

2. God of the bible has a Son, Jesus Christ! He has given His Son to redeem fallen man back to Himself, whosoever believes. The Son has a central role in all the plan of God for man. It was mentioned, prophesied and came to be! Necessary verses pointing to God having a Son are shown below; I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto Me, Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten thee. (Psalms 2:7,Hebrews 1,5) Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in His fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is His name, and what is his Son's name, if thou canst tell? (Proverbs 30:4)

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (Luke 1:32) And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mark 1:11) And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:40) While this revelation of God having a Son, the Son of Man, is plainly shown in the bible, Allah does not have a Son as attested by his scriptures, the Quran. According to Mohammed, for Allah to have a son, he has to take a wife! Various verses denying Allah having a Son are shown below; Say He is Allah, the One and Only Allah, the, Eternal, Absolute. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him! (112:1-4) They said, "The Most Gracious has begotten a son"! You have uttered a gross blasphemy. The heavens are about to shatter, the earth is about to tear asunder, and the mountains are about to crumble. Because they claim that the Most Gracious has begotten a son. It is not befitting the Most Gracious that He should beget a son. (19:88-92) It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, "Be", and it is. Quran (19:35) He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have children when He has no wife? He created all things and He is the All-Knower of everything. (6:101) YaHuWaH has given Yahushua/Jesus His Son to suffer and die for sins of all men as per prophecy. He died on the cross as per scriptures and rose from the dead on the third day. The purpose of all this is for the believing man to live forever, attested in the Gospel. This is shown in the verses below; He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken. And He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. (Isaiah 53:3-9) And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me (Yah speaking) whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him (The Messiah), as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10) And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, And shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him: and the third day He shall rise again. (Matthew 20:17-19) For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) This is the bread (Jesus referring to Himself) which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (John 6:50,51) And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid him. (Mark 16:6) The whole good news of The Son of God suffering and dying on the cross for the sins of man and rising on the third day is foreign in the Quran of Allah. Isa in the Quran (Islamic version of Jesus) never died on the cross for anyone. The verses below show this contradiction;

That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah., but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise (4:157,158) The crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the heart of the faith in Christ. Everything a Christian believes in and hopes for revolves around Jesus' death on the cross for unworthy sinners. The resurrection is the divine vindication of the fact that Jesus did not die for any crime he had committed, but died in place of sinners needing redemption and justification before an infinitely holy and just God. Non believers, others secular historians had recorded information about the execution and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Below are some; Historian Flavius Josephus (37-100AD) said this And there arose about this time Jesus, a wise man, if indeed we should call him a man; for he was a doer of marvelous deeds, a teacher of men who receive the truth with pleasure. He led away many Jews, and also Greeks. This man was the Christ. And when Pilate had condemned him to the cross on his impeachment by the chief men among us, those who had loved him at first did not cease; for he appeared to them on the third day alive again, the divine prophets having spoken these and thousands of other wonderful things about him: and even now the tribe of Christians, so named after him, has not yet died out. Roman historian called Tacitus (56-117AD) in his Annals wrote Nero fabricated scapegoatsand punished with every refinement the notoriously depraved Christians (as they were popularly called). Their originator, Christ, had been executed in Tiberius reign by the governor of Judea, Pontius Pilatus. But in spite of this temporary setback the deadly superstition had broken out afresh, not only in Judea (where the mischief had started) but even in Rome. Lucian of Samosata (115-200AD) a Greek Satirist/Rhetorician said scornfully of Christians The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day--the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account...You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self-devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws. All this they take quite on faith, with the result that they despise all worldly goods alike, regarding them merely as common property Celsus, a Roman philosopher (~178AD) attacked Christianity in his writings, he at one of his works wroteJesus accordingly exhibited after His death only the appearance of wounds received on the cross, and was not in reality so wounded as He is described to have been. 3. God of Israel (YaHuWaH) does not deceive, neither does He lie or condone it. He is against it and He had it written in the Moral Law (the Ten Commandments) as the 9th commandment, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. To deceive, which is to cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage, is not an attribute associated with Yah. Scriptures showing this are quoted below; God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? (Numbers 23:19) And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for He is not a man that He should repent. (1 Samuel 15:29) ...That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...(Hebrews 6:18) In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; (Titus 1:2)

God is of truth, not of lie, thats why it is written, He is The Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. (Deuteronomy 32:4). Deceiving and lying belong to satan and all those who never obey God of the bible. We see Allah in the Quran described as one who can deceive! He is even described as the best deceiver there is (Khayru al-makireena)! Verses below attest to this nature of Allah, as a deceiver. The Arabic root word used in these verses is Makr which means deception. ; But they (the Jews) were deceptive, and Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers (Wamakaroo wamakara Allahu waAllahu khayru al-makireena)! (3:54) And when those who disbelieved deceive/scheme at you to affix/affirm you, or kill you, or bring you out, and they scheme/deceive, and Allah deceives/schemes and Allah (is) best (of) the deceivers/ schemers (Transliterated from: Wa-ith yamkuru bika allatheena kafaroo liyuthbitooka aw yaqtulooka aw yukhrijooka wayamkuroona wayamkuru Allahu waAllahu khayru almakireena) (8:30) Did they secure Allah's scheme/deceit ? So no(one) trusts Allah's scheme/deceit except the nation the losers (Transliterated from: Afaaminoo makra Allahi fala ya/manu makra Allahi illa alqawmu alkhasiroona)(7:99) Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allh, but it is He Who deceives them. And when they stand up for As-Salt (the prayer), they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allh but little (Transliterated from: Inna almunafiqeena yukhadiAAoona Allaha wahuwa khadiAAuhum wa-itha qamoo ila alssalati qamoo kusala yuraoona alnnasa wala yathkuroona Allaha illa qaleelan).(4:142) And if We made the people taste/experience mercy from after calamity/disastrous distress touched them, then for them (is) cheatery/deceit/schemes in Our verses/evidences . Say: "Allah (is) quicker/faster (in) cunning/scheming , that Our messengers write what you cheat/ deceive/scheme."...Tranliterated from: Wa-itha athaqna alnnasa rahmatan min baAAdi darraa massat-hum itha lahum makrun fee ayatina quli Allahu asraAAu makran inna rusulana yaktuboona ma tamkuroona (10:21). And those from before them had cheated/deceived/schemed, so to Allah (is) all the cheatery/ deceit/scheme. He knows what every self gains/acquires , and the disbelievers will know to whom (is) the house's/home's end/turn (result)...Transliterated from: Waqad makara allatheena min qablihim falillahi almakru jameeAAan yaAAlamu ma taksibu kullu nafsin wasayaAAlamu alkuffaru liman AAuqba alddari (13:42) In Arabic language, Miim-Kaf-Ra = To practice deceit or guile or circumvention, practice evasion or elusion, to plot, to exercise art or craft or cunning, act with policy, practice stratagem. Jesus Christ knows satan thats why He said, to those who wouldnt understand His speech, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (Deuteronomy 32:4). Jesus said He is The Truth. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)

4. The Plan of salvation and eternal life by God of bible is plain. All men are sinners and are to repent from sins and turn to Jesus, the Son of God for forgiveness and will receive eternal life. Gods gift to man is His Son, who is also the Grace and Mercy of God. Faith in the crucified and risen Messiah is central and obedience to His commands (the Ten) is required. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17,18) I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (John 6:51) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John 14:21) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his

blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:23-25) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8,9) Although God in the bible gives salvation and eternal life to a believer who repents and has only Faith in His Son, it is not so for Allah of Quran. God in the bible says you can never be good enough for God to pardon your sins and give you eternal life! Your righteous acts are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). Thus God provided The Lamb for sins of man. Islam teaches that there will be a Judgment Day when a mans good works will be weighed against his bad works. If the outcome is deemed positive, he will be allowed to enter Paradise. The verses below show this; To those who believe and do deeds of righteousness hath Allah promised forgiveness and a great reward. (5:9) But those who believe and work righteousness,- no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear, they will be Companions of the Garden, therein to dwell (forever). (7:42) As to those who believe and work righteousness, verily We shall not suffer to perish the reward of any who do a (single) righteous deed. (18:30) But after them there followed a posterity who missed prayers and followed after lusts soon, then, will they face Destruction,-Except those who repent and believe, and work righteousness: for these will enter the Garden and will not be wronged in the least,-Gardens of Eternity, those which (Allah) Most Gracious has promised to His servants in the Unseen: for His promise must (necessarily) come to pass. 19:59-61 Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: On them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. 2:277 Even those who believe and have done good deeds shall still enter hell-fire for sometime. Why should you enter hell if you were a believer and did good works? Mohammed himself was not sure if he would end in paradise! Check the Quran verses below for confirmation. There is not one of you but will pass over it (Hell); this is with your Lord; a Decree which must be accomplished. (19:71) Say (O Muhammad SAW):"I am not a new thing among the Messengers (of Allh) (i.e. I am not the first Messenger) nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I only follow that which is revealed to me, and I am but a plain warner." (46:9) If Mohammed was doubtful of his final destination and he is regarded as holy by Muslims, what about Muslims?

5. Hell-fire torment and everlasting burning. God, in the bible has stated that whosoever sins shall die. Even Adam, for disobeying God, he was to die, and he did and died. Those who do not repent of their all sins and believe in the shed blood of The Lamb till the end, shall be cast into the second death. The second death, of which Jesus Christ symbolically called it everlasting fire, was prepared for satan and his angels, but also unrepentant sinful men will also end there. The verses in the bible used to teach this have been mistranslated and misinterpreted. The verses show the fate of sinners; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17) The soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezekiel 18:20a) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Revelation 21:8) God is NOT going to burn sinful people for ever in hell-fire because they sinned! These people are going to be blotted out of the Book of Life. They shall not live anywhere, they will be unmade. They will cease to exist, together with satan and his angels. The fate of disbelievers, those who do not believe in Allah and Mohammed, declared by Allah in the Quran is hell-fire torment forever. This is different from what YaHuWaH declares in the bible and blasphemy! The Quran has nearly 500 verses from 87 Suras that speak of Hell alone. Here are some of the verses that describe the horrors of Allahs sinners/disbelievers;

Surely! Those who disbelieved in Our Ayt (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) We shall burn them in Fire. As often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for other skins that they may taste the punishment. Truly, Allh is Ever Most Powerful, All-Wise. (4:56) Verily, We have prepared for the Zlimn (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.), a Fire whose walls will be surrounding them (disbelievers in the Oneness of Allh). And if they ask for help (relief, water, etc.) they will be granted water like boiling oil that will scald their faces. Terrible the drink, and an evil Murtafaq (dwelling, resting place, etc.)! (Quran 18: 29) These two opponents (believers and disbelievers) dispute with each other about their Lord; then as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling water will be poured down over their heads. With it will melt or vanish away what is within their bellies, as well as (their) skins. And for them are hooked rods of iron (to punish them). (22:19-21) Those who deny the Book (this Qur'n), and that with which We sent Our Messengers (i.e. to worship none but Allh Alone sincerely, and to reject all false deities and to confess resurrection after the death for recompense) they will come to know (when they will be cast into the Fire of Hell). When iron collars will be rounded over their necks, and the chains, they shall be dragged along. In the boiling water, then they will be burned in the Fire. (40:70-72) Verily, the Mujrimn (criminals, sinners, disbelievers, etc.) will be in the torment of Hell to abide therein forever. (The torment) will not be lightened for them, and they will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair therein. We wronged them not, but they were the Zlimn (polytheists, wrong-doers, etc.). And they will cry: "O Malik (Keeper of Hell)! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily you shall abide forever." (43:74-77) But if he (the dying person) be of the denying (of the Resurrection), the erring (away from the Right Path of Islmic Monotheism), Then for him is entertainment with boiling water. And burning in Hell-fire. (56:92-94) you who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allh, but do that which they are commanded. (66:6) Verily, We have prepared for the disbelievers iron chains, iron collars, and a blazing Fire. (76:4) God will not use scare tactics to woo men to Himself, He uses Love because He Himself is Love. In the end, Love will have conquered the repentant. Only a god, who is most evil than hitler can do what Allah will do to disbelievers!

Fred Maingi.