MY ISLAM INFO

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Sheikh

Arius, who was a Christian priest in Alexandria, Egypt, wanted to preserve the oneness of God by disputing the homoousia of the Son and the Holy Spirit with the Father.

So, the Son became a “second God, under God the Father” and, therefore, was not himself God, but created by God, made like God by divine grace and sent to mediate between God and mankind.

This opinion could then be reconciled with the literal translation:

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was a god

because, Prophet Jesus was then made human to mediate between God and mankind:

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.[23]

However how could Prophet Jesus, as a mortal human being and no longer divine, now redeem mankind from its sins?

So, the Christian Church rejected Arian Trinity insisting on the divine, uncreated nature of Prophet Jesus.

Athanasius, who was a theologian, ecclesiastical statesman, and Egyptian national leader, considered that the redemption of humanity from sin and death could only be possible if Prophet Jesus was total God and total human being. In other words, the Son had the same and different ousia as the Father.

In this way, Prophet Jesus could redeem mankind of its sins owing to his divine ousia, by dying which is made possible by his human mortal ousia.

The Athanasian Trinity was accepted at the Council of Nicaea 325 CE and became orthodox Christian doctrine.

As we have seen, the doctrine of the Trinity is based on pagan polytheistic Greco-Roman theology. By definition, it is, therefore, not monotheistic and is not compatible with our rational understanding of God.

For the sake of completeness only, I set out the conflicts with our rational understanding of God:

• God is eternal because He created time, yet the Son only lived in the period c6-4 BCE to c30 CE
• God is immaterial because He created matter, yet the Son was a material human being
• God is non-spatial because He created space, yet the Son existed in space
• God is self-sufficient because He created all material things, yet the Son had material needs of food and drink
• God is not immanent because He would then cease to be immaterial, yet the Son was immanent on Earth
• God is all-powerful because the universe was created without a material cause, yet the Son was a mortal human being who suffered pain and could not prevent his own death
• God is one person, but the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons
• God is transcendent, but neither the Son nor the Holy Spirit are transcendent
• God is all-knowing, but the Son is not, because, for example, he does not know the Last Day
• God has an independent will, but the Son does not, because for example he prays to the Father
• God is unchanging because He is the only immaterial cause outside the material universe and is free from all material and immaterial dependencies, yet the Son and Holy Spirit are of the same essence as God, but the Son changed to a material essence in c6-4 BCE

The doctrine of the Trinity is also inherently illogical, because it requires God to be immaterial and divine and material and mortal at the same time, and this violates the law of non-contradiction.

What is a logical impossibility is a nothing.

Therefore, the Christian God is nothing!

The Christian belief in the Trinity, therefore, fails the nature of God test.

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