Ist, I am NOT Ego Eimi. We are not the same person. How can you make such a conclusion. Be honest, check my IP dan his/her.

2nd, I am a Christian. I studies theologies.

3rd, I am not saying the Allah swt of moslem is the same as the Christian. Yes, El is the name of the God of the OT Patriarchs. When translate to Al-Kitab Indonesia/Malay, Allah. But we also must remember that Elohim & Eloah is also translated Allah. Between El as Allah and Elohim as Allah there is much differences. El is the name of the OT Patriarchs God where else, Elohim is just a generic name. Now, this name El was replace by another name, YHWH as a God of the nation of Israel. YHWH which is a proper name became more popular that El. I did not say that the Patriarchs worship Allah, btw they worship El as a true God. I just say that El was translated as Allah in bhs Indonesia and Malay, do you agree?

4th, I do agree that Allah is not a personal/proper name as far as the Bible theologies is concern. Allah is just a generic name. The Jews who spoke Arabic, the Arabic Jews and Arabic Christian before Muhammad/Islam used Allah as a generic name, equivalent to elohim of the Hebrews and theos of the Greek koine as well as GOD of the Anglo-Saxon. It is the moslem/Muhammad who changes Allah from generic name to proper name. But this is also not true historically and theologicallly (I mean Islamic theology), why? Because there are no consensus yet among moslem schorlars regarding the name Allah, some agree Allah is moslem God personal name, some disagree! Thatis why some moslem schorlars still translate Allah of the Quran to God in English. In fact, the Hebrew Quran, Allah was translate as Elohim, likewise the Greek Quran, Allah is Theos!

Sorry, I to reply your article/comments a year latter.

Jesus Bless You.

It may have been the case that Al-ilah got corrupted into the word Allah but now when you want to break apart Allah, you can’t because Allah is not a correct word to begin with.

Allah, even for many centuries before Islam, has been used as a proper name for the highest deity of Mecca. That is where the Islamic war-cry-prayer-call “Allah-hu-Akbar” comes from which means not “Allah is great” but “Allah is greater” to signify that Allah is the cheif diety, greater than the rest.

If you had said that Al-ilah means the God, I wouldn’t have any disagreement with you but when you come around saying that grammatically and from the root words you can deduce that Allah means the God, then you have a real problem in your own research.

You might want to hit the books again doctor. You’ve been duped by your own research.

I doubt that you are doctrate……… Your writing shows that you are fool enough.

So many people in the Bible are using the word ‘I am’ (“EGO EIMI” in koine Greek), for example Sarah, she says, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?’ (Genesis 18:13), question, did she commits blasphemy?

How about Abraham? Read this:

[ The Offering of Isaac ] Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, ” Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Genesis 22:1)

Abraham too commits blasphemy?????

Beside these 2 figures, there are so many others are using the same word, ‘EGO EIMI’ and Kam Weng said they are committed blasphemies:

Esau (Genesis 25:32), Jacob (Genesis 27:11), Isaac (Genesis 27:32), Joseph (Genesis 45:3), Moses (Exodus 3:11, 6:12), they are blasphermous?

And if ‘EGO EIMI’ reflects God, so you have to take Pontius Pilate as ‘God’ as well when he said ‘EGO EIMI’ in (Matthew 27:24)?

Remember this! Exodus never use the word ‘EGO EIMI’ as “I AM” but Greek word “hO ON”, (pls refer to LXX), therefore the word “EGO EIMI” in John 8:58 does not have any connection with “I AM” in Exodus, otherwise the scribe/grammarian will use the same to word to reflect the same, but no! Christians are bias on this, they will try everything to upgare Jesus as God…..start from the council of Nicea onward you are creating your own God…….would you be saved?

BTW, “EGO EIMI OU COSMICBOY” (in Greek – translate “I AM not a COSMICBOY”), once again you make fool of yourself!

Comment from Kam Weng
To read my response read the following post
http://www.krisispraxis.com/archives/2009/11/rejoinder-allah-is-not-a-personal-name-more-evidence-needed-not-mere-assertions/

Really their comments is not much worth responding, but I have used to occasion to offer more historical evidence to those interested to do more research in this issue

A quick technical check shows that Cosmic Boy and Ego Eimi is the same person – how interesting.

By the way, anyone who uses the name ego eimi as a self-designation commits blasphemy. Exodus 3:14 and some verses from Isaiah, like 45:22 show how stupendous Jesus Christ’s claim was in John 8:58. The hostile Jews would not believe that Jesus was God. For them, Jesus was committing blasphemy when he used the word ego eimi. They naturally sought to stone Jesus. You can see the connection clearly from the Greek text of the Septuagint. Is Cosmic Boy etc acting out of sheer ignorance or deliberate blasphemy? I can tolerate provocative rudeness, but blasphemy?…

At its simplest el is just the singular word description for God, while elohim is the plural form of el. Both of these words are general words (in contrast to YHWH which is the one and only personal name of the covenant God of Israel.

Of course given the plural ending of elohim – it can also refer generically to the ‘gods outside Israel, if the context evidently refers to these ‘gods’.

But elohim in the Hebrew scriptures also takes a singular verb.

This plural form that operates as a single subject is most enlightening. Some Christians see this grammatical peculiarity as an anticipation of the later fuller revelation of the Trinity

Other Hebrew grammarians are more modest and view the grammatical construction as referring to a “plural of majesty.” GKC (Gesenius, Cowley and Kautzsch) Hebrew Grammar, the authoritative grammar on Hebrew calls it a “plural of deliberation”. Lastly, Bruce Walke and O’Connor in their Hebrew textbook, Introd to Biblical Syntax describe elohim 2500X as plural of honorific distinction or intensification

From this little comment it can be seen that Cosmic Boy has missed the fundamental principle of lexicography which is that the meaning of a word is it’s immediate syntax (usage) rather than etymology and it is not just a simple correlation that his article seems to suggests.

Having gotten his premises on the Hebrew words of el and elohim wrong it is natural Cosmic Boy’s discussion of the link Allah and el, elohim and eloah, remains unclear, if not confused (until he cites relevant linguistic references)

I shall only give some short (incomplete) citations from some standard Hebrew lexicons which should be self-explanatory.

A. TWOT (Theological Wordbook Old Testament by Harris, Archer and Walke)- Brief entry

el noun common masculine singular absolute homonym 5
elohim noun common masculine plural absolute

0093elh (elh) Assumed root of the following.
(93a) el god, God.
(93b) eloah god, God.
(93c) elohim gods, God.

B. From William Holladay, A Concise Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament – based on the most authoritative modern Hebrew Lexicon HALOT – Koehler, Baumgartner and Stamm’s The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

el noun common masculine singular absolute homonym 5
Hol436 el
V el: sf. elae (11 ×); pl. elim Ex 15:11
1. distinct from Yahweh.: a) the high god El Ez 28:2, kôk bê el Isaiah14:13 el elyon Gn 14:18-22; b) pl. gods (subordinate to Y.) Ex 15:11, bene elim Ps 291

elohim noun common masculine plural absolute
Hol454 H;Ala/
1. a God/god Psa 18:32, kœl-eloah any god Dn 11:37, lo eloah non-god(s) Dt 32:17; — 2. the true God Jb 3:4.

1. gods, kol elohe misrayim Ex 12:12, °lohe ha elohim God of gods Dt 10:17, elohim aherim(64 aher beneha elohim Gn 6:2 sons of the gods (oth.: sons of God) Jb 16:21 387, †, cf. bene elim — 2. as a sg.: God, Deity; a) fm. the form, occasionally construed as pl., hitu elohîm Gn 20:13, °elohîm hayyîm living God Dt 5:23; b) construed as sg., yhwh hû° ha elohîm it is Y. who is God Dt 4:35; occurs both w. & w/o def. art. w/o difference of mng.; euphony & free choice?