Why did God change name?

Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, %26quot;Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.





Surah Al Asraa鈥?(17), Aayah 110: Say: 鈥淐all upon Allah, or call upon Rahman; by whatever name ye call him (it is well).







Why do you think God change name from yahweh to allah?

Why did God change name?The muslims changed God's identity and converted him to islam and named him Allah



before becoming a muslim allah's name was lord ulin
Why did God change name?
First thing you need to keep in mind is that the Torah is in Hebrew and the Quran is in Arabic. Have you forgotten that the name of God in the Torah also includes Ha-El, Elohim, Eloah? This are the Hebrew forms meaning God, The God. In Arabic (derived from Aramaic), the word Allah is actually a compound noun meaning Al-Ilah, The God.



What about Ha-Shem? %26quot;The Name%26quot;? Adonai? %26quot;Lord%26quot;? And for your information, the Arab Christians and Jews refer to God as Allah as well, in the Arabic translations. God has several names in the Torah alone, much more than I already listed.



Asker:



The name Yahweh itself is an attribute meaning %26quot;He is%26quot; or %26quot;He exists%26quot;. That itself is an attribute. All names are attributes.



Soofi:



Brother, you are mistaken about the Hebrew word Yahweh. This word is conjugated from the verb %26quot;haya%26quot; meaning %26quot;to be%26quot;. The word Yahweh is conjugated in the singular, third person form and thus literally translate to: He is, He exists.
Why did God change name?
Allah is simply the Arabic word for ''God.''



''Rahman'' means Merciful.



So the verse practically says this : ''Call upon God, call upon Merciful; by whatever name ye call him (it is well).''



Plus, it's not like in the Bible, God refers to Himslef only as Yahweh. He is called Lord, He is also called Merciful as far as I remember, these are just His attributes. So, His name didn't change, He simply allowed to be referred to by ATTRIBUTES!



99 of them are in Qur'an.



EDIT: Why is Yahweh allowing people to call Him Father? Changed His name? Of course not. I'm not as blind as you to treat it as such. Just another attribute of His.



EDIT: Your arguments are so flawed, man! Sure I'd be offended if someone called me Cutie, but we're not talking about human feelings here, we're talking about ...errrr, God. Isn't He supposed to be above our petty reasoning? Geez.
Because he is part of everything in existence and is everything, so he would have many names, no matter what religion. He also changes his name to things like %26quot; the God of Abraham%26quot; or %26quot; the God of Jacob%26quot; to identify himself as the father of everyone and everything. No specific name perfectly describes him, so he is all of them.
Arab christians call Him Allah..

Can you ask the same question to Arab Christians

Western christians call Him God, can you ask same question to western christians?



current bible itself give him different name like Elohim, Word. So, why does bible contradict itself before you refer to Quran?
HIS NAME IS ALLAH, not YA HOWA.

If Jehovah is the name of God Almighty, and if the 27 Books of the New Testament were inspired by Him, then it is an anomaly of the highest order, that He (Jehovah) signally failed to have His Own Name recorded in %26quot;His Word%26quot; (N.T.) the Christian addition to the Jewish Bible. The Christians claim that they have in their possession over twenty-four thousand so-called %26quot;originals%26quot; of their Holy Writ in the Greek language, and yet not a single parchment has %26quot;Jehovah%26quot; written in it. Curiously this %26quot;name of God%26quot; (?) has been sacrilegiously replaced by the Greek words ky'ri.os and the.os', which mean 'Lord' and 'God.' Yet, miracle of miracles - Alleluya! - no devil or saint has been able to eliminate the word %26quot;ALLAH%26quot; from the so-called New Testament of the Christians.



YHWH or Yehova or Yahuwa all mean the very same thing. %26quot;Ya%26quot; is a vocative and an exclamatory particle in both Hebrew and Arabic, meaning Oh! And %26quot;Huwa%26quot; or %26quot;Hu%26quot; means He, again in both Hebrew and Arabic. Together they mean Oh He! So instead of YHWH ELOHIM, we now have Oh He! ELOHIM

The suffix %26quot;IM%26quot; of the word %26quot;ELOHIM%26quot; is a plural of respect in Hebrew.



Hence ELOHIM = ELOH + IM. Now I want you to perform an exercise. Do you see the words: YA-HUWA ELOH-IM? Place your left hand index finger on the first two letters %26quot;YA%26quot; meaning oh! and the other index finger on the %26quot;IM%26quot; a plural of respect. What you now have remaining in Huwa Eloh or Huwa Elah. El in Hebrew means god, and Elah or Eloh also stands for the same name - god. Therefore, %26quot;Huwa el Elah%26quot; or HUWA 'L LAH, which is identical to the Quranic expression - Huwal lah hu (meaning: HE IS ALLAH) of the verse QUL HUWAL LAH HU AHUD



%26quot;Do you remember your Gospel narrative, that when Christ was supposed to have been on the cross, he cried out with a loud voice:



%26quot;ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?%26quot; (Mark 15:34).



Naturally, Matthew's accent would be more Semitic (Hebrew and Arabic) than that of Mark. Matthew records the same scene as Mark 15:34, but note the variation of the dialect:



Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me'? (Matthew 27:46).



%26quot;Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.%26quot; (Eli - pronounced like L and I in English) Utter the words - ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI; ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI, to your Christian friends and neighbours and ask them whether these words - %26quot;Eli, Eli,%26quot; sounds like %26quot;Jehovah, Jehovah!%26quot; to them? No! is the answer if they are not deaf. Ask further, whether %26quot;Eli, Eli,%26quot; sounds like %26quot;Abba, Abba!%26quot; (meaning father, father! in Hebrew) to them! Again the reply will be %26quot;No!%26quot; if they are not deaf. Can't they see that the cry is to Allah? %26quot;Eli, Eli - Elah, Elah, Allah, Allah!%26quot; Let them hear these words from your lips and watch their reactions. No honest per- son can help agreeing with you.



Then what is Alleluya! The last syllable %26quot;YA%26quot; is a vocative and an exclamatory particle in both Arabic and Hebrew meaning %26quot;OH!%26quot; In other words YA = OH, (the vocative); and YA = (!), a note of exclamation, or an exclamatory particle, or as is more commonly known an exclamation mark.

Unbiased Christians will not fail to recognise Allah as none other than his - El, Eli, Alle, Elah, Alah, Allah. Call upon Him by any name, for His are the Most Beautiful names




In your 'Additional Details', you are trying to liken The Creator (God) with His creation (us). We need a name to identify ourselves as we are many but God don't need a name. He is One.