Allah vs. Yahweh: Why Islam’s God Is Not the God of the Bible

🌙✝️Allah vs. Yahweh: The False God of Islam

🕌 The Crescent Against the Cross Article 5

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1. From the Sword to Its Source

In our last study, we watched Islam’s story shift from words in Mecca to the sword in Medina. What began as a fragile movement hardened into a political machine, spreading by conquest and fear. But this raises a deeper question: what kind of god produces such a kingdom?

Jesus declared, “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). To confuse Allah with Yahweh is not a small mistake—it is to mistake darkness for light, slavery for sonship, death for life.

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2. Allah: Unitarian and Arbitrary

The Qur’an presents Allah as utterly solitary, defined by will and power but shrouded in distance.

“Say: He is Allah, One; Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is begotten, nor is there to Him any equivalent” (Qur’an 112:1–4).

Unlike the God of Scripture, Allah is not covenantal—he does not bind himself in steadfast love. He is not relational but remote, unknowable except through submission.

This absolute unitarianism breeds arbitrariness. In Islam, Allah may forgive or condemn without reason. He guides some and leads others astray according to his will (Qur’an 14:4). There is no assurance, no adoption, no Abba, Father. The believer lives under fatalism: one can only submit and hope for mercy, never resting secure in love.

As scholar Montgomery Watt observes: “Allah is above law himself, and can act capriciously if he chooses” (Islamic Political Thought, 1968). Such a god produces not freedom, but fear.

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3. Allah: The Best of Deceivers

Even more troubling, the Qur’an repeatedly calls Allah “khayru al-makireen”—“the best of deceivers” (Qur’an 3:54; 8:30; 10:21). Muslim apologists often soften this to mean “the best of planners,” but the plain sense is a god who schemes, misleads, and outwits.

By contrast, Scripture is clear: “God is not man, that he should lie” (Num. 23:19). Indeed, “it is impossible for God to lie” (Heb. 6:18). The God of the Bible is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).

The Bible reserves the title “father of lies” for Satan himself (John 8:44). Yet the qualities attributed to Allah in the Qur’an—scheming, misleading, deceiving—align more with the adversary than with the Holy One of Israel. This is not the God who is truth, but a counterfeit god who bears the marks of the liar from the beginning.

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4. Yahweh: Triune and Covenantal

By contrast, the God of Scripture reveals Himself not as solitary will but as eternal communion—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

At the burning bush He declared: “I AM who I AM” (Exodus 3:14)—self-existent, unchanging, faithful.

In Christ, He is revealed as “the only true God” (John 17:3).

And in His very nature, “God is love” (1 John 4:8).

This love is not sentimental but covenantal. From Abraham’s promises to the new covenant in Christ’s blood, God binds Himself to His people with steadfast faithfulness. His character is consistent—holy, just, merciful, and true.

And because God is Triune, He has always been love. Before the world was made, the Father loved the Son in the Spirit. Love is not something God does, but who He is.

This is why His people have assurance: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1). In covenant with the Triune God, believers rest secure.

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5. The Fruits of Each God

Jesus said: “You will recognize them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16). If you want to know a god, look at the kingdom he produces.

The fruit of Allah is oppression, uncertainty, deception, and violence. Fatalism leads to despair, coercion leads to cruelty, and jihad flows naturally from a god defined by will and deceit rather than love.

The fruit of Yahweh is freedom, assurance, and flourishing. His covenant love produces martyrs who sing in the flames, missionaries who serve at great cost, and nations transformed by justice and mercy.

Where Allah’s worshipers bow in fear, Yahweh’s children cry “Abba, Father.”

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6. Applications for the Church

Expose. Do not fall for the lie that Allah and Yahweh are the same God under different names. They are not. The one is a counterfeit marked by deceit; the other is the living God of truth.

Rejoice. Marvel that the Triune God has made Himself known—not as unknowable power, but as the covenant-keeping Father, the redeeming Son, and the indwelling Spirit.

Equip. When speaking with Muslims, gently but firmly point them to the God who is personal, faithful, and loving—unlike the arbitrary deceiver they have been taught to fear.

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7. Conclusion: The God Who Is vs. The God Who Isn’t

The difference between Allah and Yahweh is not a matter of cultural variation. It is the difference between light and darkness, truth and lie, life and death. To say “we worship the same God” is to deny the gospel itself.

But the good news is this: Muslims need not remain under the shadow of a counterfeit. The living God has revealed Himself in Christ. He invites them, as He invites us all, into covenant fellowship with Father, Son, and Spirit.

Next, we turn to the heart of the matter: if Islam distorts God, how much more does it distort Christ? This brings us to Article 6: Christ in the Qur’an: The Real Jesus vs. the Islamic ‘Isa.’

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✍️ Reflection & Application

Personal: How does knowing God as Father, Son, and Spirit deepen your assurance in His love?

Church: How can your congregation teach the differences between Allah and Yahweh with clarity and compassion?

Mission: What ways can you lovingly explain to Muslims that the god they fear is not the God who saves?

For Families:

Teach your children that God has always been Father, Son, and Spirit—forever love.

Pray together that Muslims might come to know the true God and find eternal life in Him.

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📚 Key Sources Consulted:

Qur’an: 3:54; 8:30; 10:21; 14:4; 112:1–4.

Exodus 3:14; Num. 23:19; John 17:3; John 8:44; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 4:8; Matt. 7:16.

Montgomery Watt, Islamic Political Thought (1968).

F.E. Peters, Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians (2003).

Gerald Bray, The Doctrine of God (1993).

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