الصراط المستقيم

The Right Way – Al-Siraat Al-Mustaqem

HOW CAN GOD BE ONE OF A TRINITY?

  • Don’t initiate the discussion on the trinity.
  • Don’t trust your opinion, nor your experience, but what the Bible says, in both the Old Testament and New Testament (see Blackham’s paper)
  • The word ‘Trinity’ is not in the Bible, nor ‘Tawhid’ in the Qur’an?

Tri-unity (coined by Tertullian 125 A.D.).  Not mathematical (1+1+1, or 1x1x1, or 4x4x4) but organic: (i.e.: son, father, husband,  brother,  pen, water, sun, author, egg, body mind and spirit); not Sabellian (3 consecutive ‘gods’) nor Arian (‘man becomes God’)

  • Qur’an stands against ‘Christian’ polytheism (S.4:17;5:73), but has a mistaken trinity, as it includes Mary (Sura 5:116)
  • Qur’an = Jesus = God’s word, both eternal (S.85:22) ≠ ‘Tawhid’ since if Qur’an was created (Mutazilites) then at one time God was without his word
  • Many mysteries we can’t explain (i.e. God’s omnipresence, eternity, virgin birth, or electricity etc…), yet we accept them
  • Allah’s names include Love, Mercy & Compassion: yet all 3 require objects, so these names only exist due to Man’s creation, & not found or exampled in a 1-dimensional monad Allah, but found & exemplified in a trinitarian context!
  • So Allah requires Man’s existence, while Yahweh chooses Man’s existence
  • Personal man isn’t from impersonal God – except as Imago Dei (Gen.1:26-27)
  • The Tawhid of Allah breeds totalitarian Ummah (many swallowed into the 1), exampled in Muslim family, community…
  • The Trinity of Yahweh breeds individuals relating in community, exampled in Christian families, communities…
  • Islamic trinity = Allah (S.13:16; 14:10), Ruh (S.50:16; 56:83), & Eternal tablets (S.85:22)
  • Baptism of Christ (Luke 3:22)=voice of God the father, dove as spirit of God, and Son as Jesus. (Matt.6:11-13 = Lord’s Prayer)