A Refutation: Why Allah’s Character (as Defined in Islam) Is Ungodly

A Refutation: Why Allah’s Character (as Defined in Islam) Is Ungodly

The statement that “Allah does not love sinners, only those who repent” reveals a serious moral and theological deficiency in the Islamic concept of God. It does not defend Allah’s holiness; it exposes his lack of redemptive love.

1. Love Reduced to Approval Is Not Divine Love

Islam claims that Allah’s love means approval, pleasure, or acceptance, not relational or sacrificial love. This is precisely the problem.

A god who only “loves” what already conforms to his demands is not loving—he is transactional. This is not holiness; it is conditional favoritism.

In contrast, the Bible reveals a God whose love is initiating, restorative, and self-giving:

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

Biblically, God does not love sin—but He does love sinners, precisely because they are lost. Love that waits for repentance before it exists is not love; it is reward.

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2. Allah’s Love Is Reactive, Not Redemptive

The Qur’an repeatedly states that Allah only loves people after they repent (Qur’an 2:222), meaning:

• No love before repentance

• No love during brokenness

• No love toward the lost

This makes repentance a precondition for love, not a response to love.

Biblically, repentance flows from God’s love, not toward it:

“Do you despise the riches of His goodness… not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” (Romans 2:4)

Allah demands repentance to earn love.
The God of Scripture gives love to produce repentance.

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3. Mercy Without Love Is Empty

Islam often substitutes mercy for love, but mercy without love is merely temporary suspension of punishment, not transformation.

Allah forgives without entering history.
Allah pardons without sacrifice.
Allah shows mercy without self-giving.

This is not moral greatness—it is detached authority.

The biblical God absorbs the cost of forgiveness Himself:

“The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10)

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

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4. A God Who Does Not Love the Sinner Is Not Good

If Allah does not love sinners as sinners, then:

• He does not love the weak

• He does not love the broken

• He does not love humanity as it truly is

Such a being may be powerful—but not morally perfect.

Jesus explicitly contradicts this view:

“Love your enemies… that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:44–45)

If humans are commanded to love enemies, yet Allah does not, then Allah falls below the moral standard he supposedly authored.

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5. The Islamic Position Confuses Holiness With Absence of Love

Islam argues that loving sinners would mean approving sin. This is a false dilemma.

The Bible clearly separates:

• Loving the person

• Hating the sin

Only an ungodly concept of deity collapses these into one.

Jesus ate with sinners without approving sin.
Allah, by contrast, withholds love until moral correction occurs.

That is not holiness.
That is distance.

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Conclusion: The Issue Is Not Education—It Is Revelation

This debate is not about ignorance; it is about which God has revealed Himself.

• Allah loves the morally acceptable

• The God of the Bible loves the morally broken

One demands ascent.
The other descends.

One waits for repentance.
The other creates it through love.

A god who cannot love sinners until they change is not the God who saves sinners.

“For God so loved the world…” (John 3:16)
—not the repented world,
—not the purified world,
—but the fallen world.

That is the difference between ungodly authority and holy love.