11-15-2013, 04:43 AM
Before I was "converted" to Peshitta primacy, I read a little bit of Etheridge's translation to my father (who is also my Pastor) after I had ordered it on Amazon and the first thing he said was in reaction to Alaha (or as Etheridge put it Aloha): "That sounds like Allah!" I find it very sad that Muslims have made Western Christians and Jews afraid to say Allah in reference to the God of Israel. I probably wouldn't use it myself because I admittedly would feel uncomfortable and because my fellow Western Christians (not to mention my fellow Western Kentucky Christians) would accuse me of saying my God was the god of Islam or that I was saying that YHWH and Allah are the same being.