Trinity
Islam refutes the concept of Trinity, as do many others.
Because its such a big topic in itself, there are several categories:
- Definition of Trinity
- Does anyone understand the Trinity?
- Trinity and the bible
- Where did Trinity come from
- Islam's view on Trinity
- Other's say regarding Trinity
Definition of Trinity
The Trinity--The Trinitarian belief that God is Unity, subsisting in three persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost--all three are one God, equal in power and glory--represents one of the most incredible, albeit crucial conceptions in all of Christendom.
Ingersoll probably summarized the Trinitarian enigma as well as anyone when he said,
"Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost third. Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. So it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son and the Holy Ghost God, and these three Gods make one God. According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three time one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar: if we add two to one we have but one. Each one equal to himself and to the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity." (Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 4, p. 266-67).
Does anyone understand the Trinity?
No, I have never met anyone who has understood the Trinity. Besides, all that a christian can offer is a false analogy. From this, all they show is the lack of understanding of what the Trinity is suppose to be."One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three'--but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense." (What is Religion by Leo Tolstoy).
Trinity and the Bible
Where did the Trinity come from? The Bible? NO! The word Trinity doesn't even appear in the Bible. So, what next?
The only other reference in the Bible to a Trinity can be found in the Epistle of I John 5:7, Biblical scholars of today, however, have admitted that the phrase "...there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" is definitely a "pious fraud", and it is not found in any of today's versions of the Bible.
It can, therefore, be seen that the concept of a Trinity of divine beings was not an idea put forth by Jesus or any other prophet of God. This doctrine, now subscribed to by Christians all over the world, is entirely pagan and man-made in origin.
Where did Trinity come from
If its not in the Bible, where did it come from?
It was first formulated by Athanasius, a bishop of Alexandria 325 ac. He even confessed that the more he wrote on the matter, the less capable he was of clearly expressing his thoughts regarding it.
"...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not three gods, but one God... the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal... he therefore that will be save must thus think of the Trinity..." (excerpts from the Athanasian Creed)
For more information, visit Who Invented the Trinity?
Islam's view on Trinity
Islam totally rejects the Trinity. Allah says, in the Qur'an :
“ They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity, for there is no god except One Allah.” (Qur'an 5:73).
So, while Christianity may have a problem defining the essence of God, such is not the case in Islam.
In fact, the message of Islam, is so simple, that even a bedouin nomad could understand. Whereas, christianity is so nonsensical, that no christian understands it, not even Drs in theology.
Is that not what you'd expect from the truth?
Other's say regarding Trinity
- "One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three'--but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense." (What is Religion by Leo Tolstoy).
- "When we shall have done away with the incomprehensible jargon of the Trinitarian arithmetic, that three are one, and one is three;...." (Jefferson's Works, Vol. 7, p. 210 by H.A. Washington).
- "It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticism that three are one, and one is three; yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one;...." (Jefferson's Works, Vol. 6, p. 192 by H.A. Washington).
- "No historical fact is better established, than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity;.... The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousand and thousands of martyrs.... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most montrous,... With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." (Jefferson's Works, Vol. 7, p. 269-70 by H.A. Washington). - Thomas Jefferson
- That Saint Augustine himself, after he had advanced a thousand reasonings as false as they are obscure on this subject, was obliged to admit that nothing intelligible could be said about it. - Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique
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