It's a case of modern Islamic eisegesis of the Christian Scriptures no matter how many times the claim is restated. Thus far not a single shred of evidence has been presented from Islamic scholarship from the first thousand years, as I requested, only obfuscation of the claims made and circular reasoning. Imagine unironically saying "I was a Christian for 30 years" as if that somehow proves anything.
The name God the Father appears in the first verse of the first chapter of the
first written New Testament document, St. Paul's epistle to the Galatians, right next to our Lord Jesus Christ. Nowhere does the Qur'an or Hadiths refer to Allah as the Father, but does often call him "your Lord", so it's amusing that Muslims have equated Allah with God the Father in these verses and not our Lord Jesus.
Furthermore, the names of God are eternal as I'm sure you would agree, so if Allah is called Merciful, it necessitates that he has always been merciful as it is part of his nature. As in Christianity, if God is called the Father, it reveals something about his nature and his relationship to the only-begotten Son and
his nature. God did not
become the Father, he was so from the 'beginning', which necessitates that he had a Son from the beginning. Christians also call the Son the Word of God and say he is uncreated but became incarnated in the man Jesus Christ. Ironically, Muslims say something similar: that the Word of Allah became incarnated in the form of the Qur'an, therefore the
Qur'an is uncreated, but since only God is uncreated it follows that the Qur'an is Allah. Despite this, only Christians are accused of committing 'shirk'; just one of the many double-standards of Islam.
Another point, if we are to assume that God is only a father metaphorically because the believers are his sons: the Qur'an uses the term "sons of Allah" only once, when it accusing Jews and Christians of saying it (
Sura 5:18). Therefore the Qur'an does not allow for the interpretation that Allah is the God the Father, either literally or metaphorically, so the assertion that you're just making it up according to your own fancy is vindicated by the evidence.
It's ironic that you've accused me of derailing the thread after I brought into question something
you said in response to another commenter who posted something unrelated to the thread. You didn't accuse
him of de-railing but only me after you were exposed. You even created this thread to supposedly counteract all the "anti-Islam threads"; where are they? As of writing this, 8 of the top 11 threads in this sub are related to Islam, and only like two can be construed as anti-Islamic. The Muslims are keeping their threads alive in spite of all the other religious discussion that could take place, running other members off, and playing the victim when they're called out on it like you were in a recent
thread (and this one). But yeah, it's 'always been all about me'.