Allah - false God

Allah cannot and will not incarnate. Muslims and Christians believe that there is one God, but the way they conceptualize God in their respective theologies is radically different. For example, while the God of the Bible is an incarnate Being who entered into human time at creation and into human flesh at redemption in order to be Emmanuel, God with us, the God of the Koran cannot and will not incarnate. He is remote, inscrutable, utterly inaccessible to human knowledge. Though human beings are his creatures, no interpersonal relationship is possible with Allah.

To Muslims, Christ as the Son of God is blasphemous. For Muslims the biblical teaching that Christ is the Son of God is blasphemous. "They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a Trinity, for there is no God except One God" (Surah 5:76). Islam's teaching of the absolute Oneness of God stems from their believe that God is "far above" and beyond any intimate relationship. He lives in solitary aloofness. Such a teaching derives from gnostic sects that lived in Saudi Arabia at the time of Muhammad.

By contrast, the God of the Bible was not content to bless His creation from outside of it. He humbled himself to the point of becoming part of his created order through the incarnation of His Son Jesus Christ. By becoming part of His created order, God sanctified humanity. The Sonship of Jesus in the Bible, is a testimony of divine love - a love that transcends human understanding.

Portions excerpted from Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi in Endtime Issues No. 86.