Greetings,

For many months, I have been scoffing at the Muslim claims to having
found Allah in the Bible. However, I noticed something very
interesting while reading last night, and it indicates that Allah, in
fact, IS found in the Old Testament.

The verse in question is II Kings 5:18, and the words were spoken by
Naaman the Syrian general who had just been healed of his leprosy by
Elisha the prophet. Naaman has stated that the God of Israel is the
only God, but is seeking pardon from the Lord by Elisha in the
following:

"In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master [the
king of Syria - Tim] goeth into the house of RIMMON to worship there,
and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of RIMMON:
when I bow down myself in the house of RIMMON, the Lord pardon thy
servant for this thing."

We see Naaman saying that, because of his position of importance to
the king of Syria, he would be required to enter and bow to Rimmon in
that deity's temple in Damascus.

Thus, we see that RIMMON is found in the Bible.

"It is interesting to find that Rammanu, who was RIMMON of Assyria,
Brahman of India, and RAHMAN OF ISLAM, was also known in Babylon as
IL-HALLABU." (S.H. Langdon, The Mythology of All Races, Vol. 5, p.
39, the Archaeological Institute of America)

Rahman, as indicated to us in the Qu'ran, Surah 17:110, is another
name for Allah. Hence, we see that there is a definite connexion,
linguistic and otherwise, between the Rimmon who was worshipped all
throughout Syria, Paddan-Aram, Assyria, and the rest of the northern
Fertile Crescent, and Rahman, or Allah.

Rimmon, as seen above, is connected with the Babylonian Il-hallabu,
which has been shown elsewhere to be a root term containing the IL
particle from which al-ILah, Allah, comes from. This, of course,
leads us right back to Sin, the moon god, with that title "al-
ilah"....Allah.

I guess the Muslims were right all along.

Tim