If we cannot find any
evidence supporting the Trinity, is there any evidence in the Holy Bible
supporting the contrary, which is Monotheism?
One who studies the
Holy Bible will find that the Trinity is a strange concept and that the Holy
Bible is full of obvious facts declaring monotheism in Christianity.
There are many
passages in the Holy Bible, which clearly declare that Monotheism was the
belief of Jesus (PBUH), his disciples, and all the prophets (PBUT) before him.
First: Monotheistic
Passages in the Old Testament
Monotheism is obvious
in the Old Testament. Prophets (PBUT) spoke of it and remind us many times
about it, and the passages strongly reassure this belief. Some of these
passages are the following:
1. What we find in
the Book of Deuteronomy about Moses’ (PBUH) commandments, which Allah (S.W)
wrote on two stones and ordered the Children of Israel to keep, and Jesus
(PBUH) after him confirmed them.
"Hear, O Israel:
The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that
I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to
your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you
walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them
as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You
shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” (Deut.
6:4-9)
2. "I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” (Deut. 5:6-7)
3. Allah’s (S.W)
commandment to Moses (PBUH) and to the Children of Israel, "I am the LORD
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make
for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
(Ex. 20:2-4)
4. In the First Book
of Kings “that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is
God; there is no other.” (Kings(1) 8:60)
5. In Psalms “All
the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall
glorify your name For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.”
(Psalms 86:9-10).
That means He is the One
and Only God, and no one – including Jesus (PBUH) -
shares that with Him.
6. In the Book of
Isaiah, we read, “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any
after me. I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. I declared and
saved.” (Isaiah 43:10 -12)
7. “So now, O
LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that you alone are the LORD.” (Isaiah 37:20)
8. "I am the
LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out
the earth by myself.” (Isaiah 44:24) this is totally contrary to the concept of
the Trinity.
9. “I am the LORD,
and there is no other, besides me there is no God” (Isaiah 45:5)
10. In Isaiah’s
prophecy, we read, “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer,
the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is
no god. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before
me…. Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.” (Isaiah 44:6
- 8)
11. There are many
other passages in the Old Testament. (Malachi 2:10, Kings 1 8:27)
Second: Monotheistic
Passages in the New Testament
The books of the New
Testament clearly declare that Allah (S.W) is the One and Only God, Lord and
Creator. The Gospels' writers indicate that Jesus (PBUH) and his disciples were
the people who uttered these words.
12. Jesus’ saying,
"And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in
heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the
Christ.” (Matt 22: 9 – 10)
13. “A man came up to
him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life? And
he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one
who is good.” (Matt 19:16-17)
14. In the Book of
John, “When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to
heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the
Son may glorify you.
Since you have given
him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given
him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:1 – 3) . Therefore, there is no true God except
One, and he is Allah (S.W).
15. When trying to
tempt Jesus (PBUH), the devil said, “All these I will give you, if you will
fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it
is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you
serve.” (Matt. 4:10) the same is in Luke. (Luke 4:8)
16. Jesus (PBUH) told
the Jews, “You are doing what your father did." They said to him,
"We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father--even God.” Jesus
said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from
God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.” (John 8:41-
42)
These passages and
many others speak about One God, and there is nothing in them that speak about
three beings uniting in one person as the Christians claim.
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