God is not "allah"

From the Associated Press:

AMSTERDAM - A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims.
Bishop Tiny Muskens, from the southern diocese of Breda, told Dutch television on Monday that God did not mind what he was named and that in Indonesia, where Muskens spent eight years, priests used the word "Allah" while celebrating Mass.
"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? ... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem."

Are you a Christian? You say yes. What makes you a Christian? "I believe in God" you say. You might even say "I believe in Jesus", which I will take to mean that you believe Jesus was the son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, and died for our salvation. What about the Holy Spirit (or Ghost, if you prefer)? Not something you probably think about much, but we'll let that go for the moment.

As a Christian, what do you think of the news story above? Many people assume that Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and we just have different names for him. That's what the media tells us. All three started with the Old Testament, Abraham, etc. God and allah are the same guy, right?

Wrong. God is not Allah. A Christian believes (or is supposed to believe) in a Triune god - a Trinity. Father - Son - Holy Spirit. Separate, but one. Muslims believe that the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemous idolatry. Allah is the arabic translation for the word god, but when Muslims refer to Allah they are referring to the subject of the Koran, not the Christian god.

"Wait, H.K.," you interrupt. "Muslims believe in Jesus. I saw it on TV, dickhead." Yes, to my knowledge, Muslims believe Jesus existed. They believe he was one of Allah's prophets, but not the son of God. Not a redeemer.

Referring to God as "allah" is not referring to God at all. It would be like referring to your best friend Hank as Bob. Hank is not Bob, and vice versa. Jews, Muslims and Christians do not believe in the same God.

I ask again, are you a Christian? If so, you wouldn't start referring to God as "allah". In fact, this is what you're supposed to believe, as the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod puts it:

On the basis of the Holy Scriptures we teach the sublime article of the Holy Trinity; that is, we teach that the one true God, Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:4, is the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, three distinct persons, but of one and the same divine essence, equal in power, equal in eternity, equal in majesty, because each person possesses the one divine essence entire, Col. 2:9, Matt. 28:19. We hold that all teachers and communions that deny the doctrine of the Holy Trinity are outside the pale of the Christian Church. The Triune God is the God who is gracious to man, John 3:16-18, 1 Cor. 12:3. Since the Fall, no man can believe in the "fatherhood" of God except he believe in the eternal Son of God, who became man and reconciled us to God by His vicarious satisfaction, 1 John 2:23; John 14:6.

Are you sure you are a Christian?