Islam said:
=) 3=1? But At the time of Moses it was 1? And how can God have partners? How can he have a son? Think of it.. and above that kill his son to forgive our sins? If im ur boss at work and u steal i go and kill my son so i wont fire you? How can God be mercifull and Just and at the same time kill and torment his son to forgive our sins? 1=1.. Jesus peace be upon him = Gods messenger and prophet ..
Islam; we have had this discussion on this forum many, many times before. I accept that you have your views, but you must accept that we Christians have our views too. If you really are interested, an explanation of the trinity is as follows:-
(from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm
I. THE DOGMA OF THE TRINITY
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the
Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the
Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the
Athanasian Creed: "the Father is
God, the Son is
God, and the
Holy Spirit is
God, and yet there are not three
Gods but one
God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the
Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding
God's nature which
Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
In
Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word
trias (of which the Latin
trinitas is a translation) is first found in
Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180. He speaks of "the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom ("Ad. Autol.", II, 15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time. Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of
trinitas in
Tertullian ("De pud." c. xxi). In the next century the word is in general use. It is found in many passages of
Origen ("In Ps. xvii", 15). The first creed in which it appears is that of Origen's pupil,
Gregory Thaumaturgus. In his
Ekthesis tes pisteos composed between 260 and 270, he writes:
There is therefore nothing created, nothing subject to another in the Trinity: nor is there anything that has been added as though it once had not existed, but had entered afterwards: therefore the Father has never been without the Son, nor the Son without the Spirit: and this same Trinity is immutable and unalterable forever (P. G., X, 986).
It is manifest that a dogma so mysterious presupposes a
Divine revelation. When the fact of
revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of
God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a necessary consequence. For this reason it has no place in the Liberal
Protestantism of today. The writers of this school contend that the doctrine of the Trinity, as professed by the Church, is not contained in the New Testament, but that it was first formulated in the second century and received final approbation in the fourth, as the result of the
Arian and Macedonian controversies. In view of this assertion it is necessary to consider in some detail the evidence afforded by
Holy Scripture. Attempts have been made recently to apply the more extreme theories of comparative religion to the doctrine ot the Trinity, and to account for it by an imaginary law of nature compelling men to group the objects of their worship in threes. It seems needless to give more than a reference to these extravagant views, which serious thinkers of every school reject as destitute of foundation.
II. PROOF OF DOCTRINE FROM SCRIPTURE
(Please look at the link above for the entire script)
