Greetings everyone...
over the past 18 months i have learnt a great deal about christianity as a muslim than i ever learnt during my 25 years as a christian... (well... i guess i was too busy partying n stuff.. ) anyways...
When ever i try to discuss trinity with anyone... invariably it ends up in a no show or "It is a mystery" label or a reversal of topics where Islam is the main subject... I have asked honest questions and .... maybe due to the fact that the christian posters are tired of repeating the same thing over n over again , get pissed off... which is quite understandable.... anyways... like elsewhere i will post my thoughts here... and lets see....
Ask a muslim what is Trinity... an automatic answer will be ... its an illogical 3=1 equation... frankly speaking this cant be possible... but this is what a christian will say. with no further explaination ... or if there is any explaination ... something similar to the mind-body-soul or water-ice-steam ... but all such examples fall short of explaining what Trinity really is... some fault or the other can be found in all such examples.... as for scripture... the word is not in hte Bible... it was first coined by a church person... (sorry cant remember who) in the 2nd century... (plz correct me if i am wrong) and interestingly enough this same person later on said that the more he tried to understand this word the more confused he got... I think it was terutullian or somethign liek that... anyways...
everyone knows that the Son is not the Father is not the Spirit... all 3 are different... distinct... individual entities... so keeping this in mind are these 3 entities absolute? infinite? supreme? or is there a hierarchary (i always was bad at spellings) you see the statement goes as " We/I believe in the Father creator of all things.. we also believe in Jesus the Son ....... " i cant remember the whole creed... basically this states that there are 3 distinct persons... and these 3 persons are one... what is missing here is one what? one purpose? one entity? one what?
now allthis is well and good... but the christian claim is they are monotheists.... which cant be possible. considering that the mere mention of the word trinity signifies more that 1 clearly makes it non-monotheistic... rather its tri-theistic.... or a more generalized term polytheistic...
I was going thru a thread here an hour back... started by ms. ladybeliever... she went on to explain the concept of trinity and others here joind in saying similar comments... (well except for the why the Holy Spirit is not also worshiped) and after reading that thread ... and gazzilions of others here and elsewhere... the bottom line conclusion one will arrive at everytime is there are 3 entities... (i wont use the word God here...) if there are 3 distinct entities... how are these 3 distinct entities 1 entity??? is this what the trinity means??? i.e. 3 entities who are 1 entity??? or is it more of a purpose / command thingie??? i.e. the same driving purpose... united in purpose... unity in diversity...
So i guess the real question is is christianity a monotheistic religion or a polytheistic one?
Anyways....
Take care ya'll
Ali