O
people of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say
of Allah aught but truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no
more than) an Apostle of Allah and His Word which He bestowed on
Mary and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and
His Apostles. Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be
better for you: for Allah is One God: glory be to him: (for
Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in
the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of
affairs. [Holy Qur'an 4:171]
We
gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of
Apostles; We gave Jesus the son of Mary clear (Signs) and
strengthened him with the holy spirit. [Holy Qur'an 2:87]
".......It
is difficult in the second half of the 20th century to offer a
clear, objective and straightforward account of the revelation,
doctrinal evolution, and theological elaboration of the Mystery
of the trinity. Trinitarian discussion, Roman Catholic as well
as other, present a somewhat unsteady silhouette. Two things
have happened. There is the recognition on the part of exegetes
and Biblical theologians, including a constantly growing number
of Roman Catholics, that ONE SHOULD NOT SPEAK OF
TRINITARIANISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WITHOUT SERIOUS
QUALIFICATION. There is also the closely parallel
recognition on the part of historians of dogma and systematic
theologians that when one does speak of an unqualified
Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian
origins to, say, THE LAST QUADRANT OF THE 4TH CENTURY. IT WAS
ONLY THEN THAT WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED THE DEFINITIVE TRINITARIAN
DOGMA 'ONE GOD IN THREE PERSONS' BECAME THOROUGHLY ASSIMILATED
INTO CHRISTIAN LIFE AND THOUGHT... it was the product of 3
centuries of doctrinal development" (emphasis
added). (The New Catholic Encyclopaedia, Volume XIV, p.
295.)
If the
"Trinity" is the true nature of God, then why did
Jesus (pbuh) leave his closest and dearest followers so
completely and utterly baffled and lost that they never even
realized the "true" nature of God? Why did he leave
them steeped in such black darkness that neither they nor their
children, nor yet their children's children would ever come to
recognize the "true" nature of the One they are to
worship? Do we really want to allege that Jesus was so
thoroughly incompetent in the discharge of his duties that he
left his followers in such utter chaos that it would take them
fully three centuries after his departure to finally piece
together the nature of the One whom they are to worship? Why did
Jesus never, even once, just say "God, the Holy Ghost
and I are three Persons in one Trinity. It is a mystery. Worship
all of us as one and have blind faith"? Couldn't
it possibly be that he didn't say it nor did he teach it BECAUSE
IT ISN'T TRUE ?!
Some people
try and make the case that Jesus (pbuh) taught the disciples the
concept of the "trinity" in secret and that these
"secret" teachings were then made public knowledge
many years later. However, in advancing this unsubstantiated
claim these people forget Jesus' explicit refusal of this claim.
He publicly announced:
"Jesus
answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the
synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort;
and in secret have I said nothing." [John 18:20]
If God is a
trinity then God Himself would have told us so clearly,
directly, and without beating around the bush, just as He
clearly tells us that He is One in so many places in the Bible,
for example:
"Ye
[are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I
[am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there
be after me. I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there
is] no saviour." [Isaiah 43:10-11]
"Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:"
[Deuteronomy 6:4]
etc.
"Because
the Trinity is such an important part of later Christian
doctrine, it is striking that the term does not appear in the
New Testament. Likewise, the developed concept of three coequal
partners in the Godhead found in later creedal formulations
cannot be clearly detected within the confines of the canon
(Bible)." (The Oxford Companion to the Bible, Bruce
Metzger, pp. 782-783)
In "The
Dictionary of the Bible," bearing the Nihil Obstat,
Imprimatur, and Imprimi Potest (official Church seals
of approval), we read:
"the
trinity of God is defined by the Church as the belief that in
God are three persons who subsist in one nature. That belief as
so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th
centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical
belief."
The Church forces the "Trinity" into the Bible:
"Do
you covet that they will believe in you when [in fact] a party
of them used to hear the Word of Allah then they would distort
it knowingly after they had understood it?" [Holy
Qur'an 2:75]
"Then
woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands and
then say: 'This is from Allah', to traffic with it for a
miserable price. Woe to them for what their hands do write and
for the gain they make thereby" [Holy Qur'an
2:79]
"The
text about the three heavenly witnesses (I John 5:7 KJV) is not
an authentic part of the NT" (The Interpreter's
Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 4, p.711, Abingdon Press.)
"1
John 5:7 in the KJV reads: 'There are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one' but this is an interpolation of which there is no
trace before the late fourth century." (The
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 4, p. 871, Abingdon
Press.)
"1
John 5:7 in the Textus Receptus (represented in the KJV) makes
it appear that John had arrived at the doctrine of the trinity
in explicit form ('the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost'),
but this text is clearly an interpolation since no genuine Greek
manuscript contains it" (The Eerdmans Bible
Dictionary, Edited by Allen C. Myers, p. 1020)
Peake's
Commentary on the Bible says:
"The
famous interpolation after 'three witnesses' is not printed even
in RSVn, and rightly. It cites the heavenly testimony of the
Father, the logos, and the Holy Spirit, but is never used in the
early Trinitarian controversies. No respectable Greek MS
contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th-cent. Latin text, it
entered the Vulgate and finally the NT of Erasmus."
"For
God is not the author of confusion," [1
Corinthians 14:33]
"And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might
be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness" [2
Thessalonians 2:10-12]
Who did the disciples call 'God'?
"As
concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered
in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in
the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. For
though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in
earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us [there
is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in
him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we
by him." [1 Corinthians 8:4-6]
Here we have
it in black and white! The disciples knew of only one God. But
who was that God?
Did they say "one God, Jesus"? No!
Did they say "one God, the Son"? No!
Did they say "one God, the Holy Ghost"? No!
Did they say "one God, the trinity"? No!
Did they say "one God, the Father Son and Holy Ghost"?
No!
They said "one God, THE FATHER"? PERIOD!!!
For those who
attempt to put "hidden meanings" in the disciples
mouths or to try and say the the reference to Jesus as
"lord" means that he too is God then this is clearly
in contradiction with the following verses:
"That
ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 15:6
"Unto
Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from
God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord." [1
Timothy 1:2]
…etc.
So where did
they disciples get the notion that God is one and Jesus (pbuh)
is only a messenger of God? They got it from Jesus (pbuh)
himself. He said:
"And
this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." [John
17:3]
"Jesus
saith unto her, ...I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and
to my God, and your God." [John 20:17]
"Surely
they have disbelieved who say: 'Allah is the Messiah, son of
Mary.' But the Messiah said: 'O Children of Israel! Worship
Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' Verily, whosoever sets up
partners in worship with Allah then Allah has forbidden Paradise
upon him, and his abode is the Fire. And for the unjust there
are no allys" [Holy Qur'an 5:72]
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