PART 2: TAWHID OR THE TRINITY? TWO DIFFERENT GODS

 SESSION 2 

IMain Focus Summary 

PART 2: TAWHID OR THE TRINITY? TWO DIFFERENT GODS 

Chapters 5-8 

"Allah is absolutely one, he cannot have attributes. Attributes would curb his absolute unity, being things he has as opposed to things he is. This conclusion of Islamic philosophy can use a little exploration. If God has attributes, he must always have had them, because he is unchanging. That would make those attributes eternal. If those eternal attributes are not a part of his essence, part of who he is, then something other than God existed alongside God from the beginning of time" (50). 

Allah is one God and has no parts or attributes. 

"The Trinity is just like every other monotheistic doctrine in teaching that there is only one God. If we miss this, we miss everything! Christianity has always taught that there is only one God. Where Christian theology differs from other forms of monotheism is not on the number of gods, but on the concept of God's personhood. The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that the one God exists as three persons" (596). 

The Christian God is One God existing in three eternal Persons. Christians serve and worship a relational God. Allah is remote and non-relational.