So, the Koran says God has no children and that Allah is the God of Abraham. But this contradicts pre-existing, established, Scripture. Genesis describes God creating the universe and becoming a father to a man (and, by extension, his offspring the whole human race).
Adam was made "in our image and likeness" (Gen 1:26-27, 5:1). This means Adam was God's son and so God was Adam's Father (because Gen 5:3 describes Adam fathering a son "in his image and likeness").
Before Adam and Eve sinned they were God's children, with eternal life, and the world had no suffering or bloodshed or death. Their first sin brought those things into the world, causing it to become the violent place as we know it. This also caused an unfathomable and humanly unbridgable rift between God and mankind. (This was an infinite debt.) They lost the divine sonship for themselves and their descendants. But even back then God hinted at humankind's future redemption (Gen 3:15). That hint was fulfilled with the coming of Jesus, God's only-begotten and true son.
That's how much God loves us, His lowly creatures. First He loved us into existance and then he saved us from ourselves, through his own Son Jesus, sacrificed in order to pay the infinite debt we owed to Him. The sacrifice of this God-Man Jesus bridged the gulf that kept us away from almighty all-righteous God. Once again humans can claim the original status of sonship to God, which was lost to us by Adam. When we accept Jesus as our mediator with God and payment for our sins, we become God's child, by adoption, and He becomes our Father. Because of this, we get to spend eternity in Heaven. To die without sonship to God is to spend eternity separated from Him.
God is a true Father. Scripture, which predates the Koran, describes God fathering His family from Creation (Genesis) to Redemption (Gospels) to Final Sanctification and Consummation (Revelation).
Since Allah, as described by the Koran, does not match the God described in Genesis, I can only conclude that Allah is not, after all, the God of Abraham.
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