Sub-section One: Illustration of the Christian Trinity:

There are three persons in the trinity,[1] each of which is exclusively characterized by certain features, while they all have some other common features.

1.     They have different tasks and functions: Allah (the father) is specialized in certain functions, such as choice and call; the functions of judging people and redemption are attributed to Allah (the son), while Allah (the Holy Spirit) is responsible for the functions of rebirth and glorification or sanctification.     [2]

2.     They have common features:

·        Each of them has a complete divine power.

·        They are all sempiternal without a beginning.

           The dictionary of the Holy Scripture says: He is One God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one essence. They are equal in power and glory.[3]

           So, such is the doctrine of trinity in Christianity; it opposes both reality and reason; therefore, they regard it a supernatural secret among a group of supernatural secrets.[4]

           In reality many Christians covertly have doubts and suspicions about this doctrine that reflects a curious philosophy that is rejected by both reason and logic. But Christians try to clarify the notion of the trinity through citing examples that result in different and contradictory visions. Yet they have not convinced themselves, let alone convincing others.  

1.     Trinity is like spirit, water and blood: The Gospel of John says: “And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth. So those who bear witness are three (the Spirit, the water and the blood) and the three are in agreement.”[5] But this paragraph was removed from the Holy Scripture.[6]

2.     Kant in the 18th Century says: “The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three basic attributes of Divinity; namely; Power, Wisdom and Love; or three working factors: Creation, Conservation and Control.”[7] 

3.     Some compare trinity to a tree with a root, stem and leaves.

4.     “Sometimes they compare it to the sun, as a heavenly body that lights and warms the earth.”[8]

5.     Some philosophers say that Allah consists of three persons or elements: Allah Himself, speech and life. Allah exists as an entity by Himself, a speaker through His word and living through His Spirit. Each of these qualities gives him a certain attribute: If Allah appears with His own entity He is called “the Father”; if he speaks, He is the son and if he appears as life He is the Holy Spirit.”[9]

But the priest Tawfiq Jeed rejects these philosophies, saying: “Describing trinity as constituting the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is divine depths and heavenly secrets that are impermissible to philosophize in fragmenting, analyzing and attaching to them our own thoughts.” He also says in his book “the Secret of Sempiternity”: “Trinity is a secret that is difficult to understand and perceive. He who tries to be fully aware of the secret of trinity is like somebody who tries to hold all the waters of the ocean in his palm.”[10]

Christian philosophers also believe that man was created in the image of Allah, for as Allah consists of three persons or elements, man is composed of three elements also. Man by himself is an entity in the image and example of Allah, a speaker in the image and example of Allah and living in the image and example of Allah.”[11]

            Thus they think haphazardly by regarding the three elements or persons attributes and by changing the persons into the attributes of one intrinsic entity that is Allah.

            We say that Allah is characterized not by just three qualities by tens and even hundreds of attributes. He is the Creator, the Sustainer, the Omnipotent, The All-Wise, the All-Knowledgeable in a long list of His Names and Attributes. To clarify this point we say that all people have a number of characteristics but nobody says that these characteristics represent various entities. A single man may be described as tall, brown, generous, brave, educated, intelligent, etc, but all these qualities belong to a single entity and not to a number of persons, and this is what the intellect understands and logic accepts.

            “In reality, the philosophy of Trinity is a strange organ that was implanted in the sick body of Christianity to increase its malady, and instead of reforming and recovering it this doctrine overwhelmed it with chaos and turbulence and became an overburdening affliction carried by the sick body that could neither reject it nor accept it.”[12]