From the outset, the Islamic misconception that Christians believe in and worship three separate gods is blasphemous to Christians. Obviously, it is this “polytheism” (“shirk”) which disturbs Muslims the most.
How can God be both THREE and ONE? Isn't this illogical? Yet God is beyond all human reason. Too often humans have tried to reduce God to their level of understanding. They try to make God like themselves. We must reject such thoughts as quite ungodly.
God is beyond all human understanding, therefore we should expect to find aspects of Him that seem strange to us. Any explanation of God which is fully clear to the human understanding must be wrong because He is far more than our little minds can grasp.
Christians and Muslims alike worship the God of Abraham. Furthermore, both are monotheistic, believing in only one righteous and transcendent creator God.
The key verse of the Torah of the Prophet Moses states that: “The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.” (Deuteronomy 6:4) God is one and He commands us to love Him with all our heart.
In Genesis 11:7 and 1:26 we find a plural verb used to describe the action of the One God (“Let us go down”, “Let us make”). One of the Hebrew words for God isELOHIM (normally translated “God”). The significant thing about this word is that it is a plural word, although it is never translated “Gods”. The Muslims say that this is a case of the royal “we”, although linguists do not acknowledge the royal “we” in either Arabic or Hebrew. In Deuteronomy 6:4 we read that “the Lord ELOHIM, the Lord is One.”
Jesus Christ, speaking more than one-thousand years after the Prophet Moses says: “The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:28-30 and Matthew 22:37). Remember that it is Jesus, the man who claimed to have equality with God, who is speaking.
All Christians strongly believe that there is but ONE God, and he alone must be the object of our worship and service. The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments repeatedly tells us that there is only ONE God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29; Romans 3:30; 1 Timothy 1:17; James 2:19). Perhaps 1 Corinthians 8:4 says it best, “There is no God but ONE”
Thus, both the Torah and the Gospel (Injil) agree that God is one. We are commanded to love one God. Only He has the right to require our ultimate loyalty. All other gods which man invents are totally false (Hosea 13:2,3).
How can God be both THREE and ONE? Isn't this illogical? Yet God is beyond all human reason. Too often humans have tried to reduce God to their level of understanding. They try to make God like themselves. We must reject such thoughts as quite ungodly.
God is beyond all human understanding, therefore we should expect to find aspects of Him that seem strange to us. Any explanation of God which is fully clear to the human understanding must be wrong because He is far more than our little minds can grasp.
Christians and Muslims alike worship the God of Abraham. Furthermore, both are monotheistic, believing in only one righteous and transcendent creator God.
The key verse of the Torah of the Prophet Moses states that: “The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.” (Deuteronomy 6:4) God is one and He commands us to love Him with all our heart.
In Genesis 11:7 and 1:26 we find a plural verb used to describe the action of the One God (“Let us go down”, “Let us make”). One of the Hebrew words for God isELOHIM (normally translated “God”). The significant thing about this word is that it is a plural word, although it is never translated “Gods”. The Muslims say that this is a case of the royal “we”, although linguists do not acknowledge the royal “we” in either Arabic or Hebrew. In Deuteronomy 6:4 we read that “the Lord ELOHIM, the Lord is One.”
Jesus Christ, speaking more than one-thousand years after the Prophet Moses says: “The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:28-30 and Matthew 22:37). Remember that it is Jesus, the man who claimed to have equality with God, who is speaking.
All Christians strongly believe that there is but ONE God, and he alone must be the object of our worship and service. The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments repeatedly tells us that there is only ONE God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29; Romans 3:30; 1 Timothy 1:17; James 2:19). Perhaps 1 Corinthians 8:4 says it best, “There is no God but ONE”
Thus, both the Torah and the Gospel (Injil) agree that God is one. We are commanded to love one God. Only He has the right to require our ultimate loyalty. All other gods which man invents are totally false (Hosea 13:2,3).
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