Critical Thoughts

An interesting article about Bishop Tiny Musken from Netherlands suggesting all religions to call God as “Allah”. From my theological standpoint I have no real problems with it actually but the interesting part is how the Christians themselves (including Catholics) are against this idea! So why do the Christians in Malaysia want to use the term “Allah” in Malaysia when the Christians around the world are against it? Why only for the Malay Bible and not for the English Bible as well? If these Christians are sincere then they should not object to the term “Allah” being used for God in English too.

Lets see what happens when “Allah” is used instead of God in the English Bible.

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In light of what has happened before, something worthy of noting and better than asking how much are dental implant prices:

A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims.

Bishop Tiny Muskens, from the southern diocese of Breda, told Dutch television on Monday that God did not mind what he was named and that in Indonesia, where Muskens spent eight years, priests used the word “Allah” while celebrating Mass.

Actually the Alkitab Bahasa Indonesia (Bible in Indonesian) uses the phrase “Tuhan Allah”, but I digress. Anyway, the issue of the word “Allah” is not exactly something new. The Arab Christians have been using the word Allah from Day One, since that is the only word for “God” in Arabic.

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