@nancy5nunes@RichardABCDEFG@IslamInvasion@JaydaBF The truth is that the Bible contains contradictions. That is why there are dozens of conflicting Christian sacred books. Many of them are discouraged from being read by Christians because the truth would undermine Christianity.
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How can your God be the Almighty when, according to your belief, He was crucified, suffered, wept, and cried out on the cross? My God is Almighty, cannot be overcome, nothing in the heavens or on the earth can defeat Him, and He is the Ever-Living who never dies. So, which is more powerful—your God or mine?
@OrthodoxLatin88@ofc_nbl@JeromeChukwuwem What evidence do you rely on to determine that any book is divine revelation? If we can first agree on the standard, then we can evaluate the Qur’an and any other book according to that same standard.
You have many sacred books, many of which contradict one another. Some still exist, while others have been lost. Christians themselves reject what is written in some of these books. So how do you expect me, as a Muslim, to accept them?
By the way, some of these rejected books are older than certain books of the New Testament.
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The Bible has undergone alteration and modification over the centuries. Ancient Christian gospels and writings were excluded from the New Testament canon, and some were even suppressed, despite the fact that some of them are older than certain books of the New Testament. Had those gospels been accepted as canonical today, they would have contained narratives and teachings that differ from the doctrines later adopted by the Church, such as the divinity of Jesus and the crucifixion.
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That is not evidence for the Trinity; it is simply a philosophical analogy based on an assumption.
First, there is no scientific or biblical evidence that God is a “higher-dimensional being” in the geometric sense, so building a doctrine on that assumption is unjustified.
Second, even if we assume God transcends our dimensions, it does not logically follow that He is three Persons. Why three? Why not two, four, or any other number? Higher dimensions do not inherently produce the number three.
Third, the cone analogy proves nothing. A cone is still one object viewed differently depending on the angle of projection. Christian doctrine, however, does not teach that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are merely different appearances of God. It teaches that they are distinct Persons who speak to one another and send one another. If your analogy were correct, it would actually resemble Modalism, a view rejected by mainstream Christianity.
Fourth, saying, “The Trinity doesn’t make sense—that’s the point,” is not an argument. Any claim could be defended by saying it is beyond human understanding. Being difficult to understand does not make something true.
Finally, if God intended to reveal Himself as three co-equal Persons in one divine essence, we would expect Him to state that clearly in revelation—not leave it to modern analogies about higher dimensions and geometry developed thousands of years later.
So the higher-dimensional analogy may make the concept imaginable to some people, but it does not make it true, nor does it demonstrate that this is what the Bible actually teaches.
You’re confusing two completely different things: the absence of a term and the absence of a doctrine.
A doctrine does not have to be identified by a specific label; what matters is whether its meaning is clearly taught.
The word “Tawhid” may not appear as a technical term in the Qur’an, but its meaning is stated explicitly throughout it:
“Say, He is Allah, One.” (Qur’an 112:1)
“Your God is One God.” (Qur’an 2:163)
“There is no god except Him.”
Likewise, the phrase “the Five Pillars of Islam” is not a Qur’anic expression. It is a later name used to summarize teachings that are explicitly found throughout the Qur’an: the testimony of faith, prayer, zakat, fasting, and pilgrimage.
The issue with Christianity is not that the word “Trinity” is missing. The issue is this: Where does the Bible explicitly teach that God is three co-equal, co-eternal Persons sharing one divine essence?
If that is the central doctrine of Christianity, why is there no single passage that clearly states it?
So the objection has never been about the absence of a word. It is about the absence of an explicit doctrine.
The player exists outside the game before entering it, and can leave it at any time. In Christian doctrine, however, the Son is not merely a virtual representation of the Father, but an eternal, distinct divine Person (hypostasis). Therefore, this analogy does not actually match Christian doctrine—it changes it.
@AfgZoroastrian Muslims —— We have one Qur’an.
Jews —— We have 24 books.
Christians —— We have many gospels. We accepted four into the New Testament, while the others were rejected because they undermine Christian doctrine.
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Why are there ancient Christian gospels and writings that were not included in the New Testament? And on what basis were only four Gospels considered inspired Scripture, while other gospels attributed to figures such as Thomas, Peter, Mary, Philip, and Judas were rejected?
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Why are there ancient Christian gospels and writings that were not included in the New Testament? And on what basis were only four Gospels considered inspired Scripture, while other gospels attributed to figures such as Thomas, Peter, Mary, Philip, and Judas were rejected?
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Within early Christian tradition, there were groups that denied the crucifixion of Jesus, and the Church Fathers themselves recorded their beliefs. This shows that denying the crucifixion was not an idea that originated with Islam, but existed centuries before it.
Examples include:
Basilides (2nd century AD), as reported by Irenaeus in Against Heresies (1:24), taught that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Christ, and that Christ Himself was not crucified.
The Apocalypse of Peter, one of the early non-canonical Christian writings, describes the real Christ as being alive above the cross, watching while someone else was crucified. It states, in essence: “The one whom you saw on the tree is not the living Christ, but his substitute.”
The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, from the Nag Hammadi library, attributes these words to Christ, in essence: “I did not truly die; they only thought they had killed me.”
Therefore, the claim that all Christians unanimously agreed on Jesus’ crucifixion from the very beginning is not historically accurate, because Christian sources themselves testify that there were early groups who denied that the crucifixion took place or claimed that someone else was crucified in his place.
This is just a claim without evidence. Show me a single verse from the Qur’an or a single authentic narration from the Sunnah that says the Kaaba or the Black Stone is a god, or commands Muslims to worship it, pray to it, prostrate to it, or seek help from it.
You won’t find one, because all Islamic texts call for the worship of God alone and forbid the worship of anything besides Him.
Likewise, you may kiss the cross or bow before it, yet I do not claim that you worship it, because you do not consider it to be God. Simply kissing or bowing to something does not make it an object of worship.
As for Jesus, you openly acknowledge that you worship him, even though he lived on earth as a man who ate, drank, and slept. That is the real point of disagreement between us. We do not worship a stone or a building, whereas you worship Jesus, believing that he is God incarnate in human form.
Strange—you referred me to Genesis 3, yet it turns out the statement you attributed to it isn’t there at all. It seems you haven’t actually read the chapter you cited.
So before attributing a statement to the Bible, please provide the verse number. Genesis 3 does not say that God cursed the world because Adam and Eve wore fig leaves. Rather, it says that they made coverings for themselves out of fig leaves.