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Recently a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands made a pronouncement that people who call themselves Christians are perfectly fine to refer to God by the name, Allah, so as to ease tensions with our Muslim neighbors...

The God who created and sustains this world is ... the only true God. 

There is no other. 

Oh sure, people have referred to things as gods, 

from those who worshipped imaginary gods of the things seen in nature, 

to man-made idols, 

to the Mormon belief that male humans can become gods one day. 

None of these false gods are backed by reality. 

There is no truth in them. 

There is no truth in following after them.

Among these false gods is Allah. Early Meccans were pagan idolaters who worshipped the stars, the sun, the moon, as well as the planets, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. One of the gods was deemed to be superior to all the rest, the moon god, Allah. Mohammed selected him to honor, and having studied Judaism, pressed the claim that Allah is the only god. 

Allah is not the same as the Creator. 

The name, Allah, is not just another way of saying "God."

The true God wants us to know Him in a personal and practical way. 

He has revealed Himself through the Scriptures and through His Son, Jesus Christ.

"I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other" Isaiah 45:5-6

-roger wright