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Originally Posted by Khairan
My point is that when Muslims say they don't understand how the Trinity is monotheism, it's not because they don't get what Trinitarians say about it but rather because they don't see how what Trinitarians believe is compatible with monotheistic belief.
If this is what you've been trying to say from the get-go, then granted and I think we have been failing to communicate. It sounded to me as if you were saying that Muslims somehow "know" that Trinitarianism is a kind of monotheism but won't acknowledge it as such because they feel obligated to reject it. I think the former idea and the latter are quite different though.  |
Actually, I was editing my post when my friend called me and had to run. The bolded part
is what I think.
Specifically this:
"In other words, while the definition of "Trinity-as-unity" is not incomprehensible, to us it is utterly incompatible with pure monotheism."
"To us" I read as though you were saying "it isn't compatible with Islam's version of monotheism". That's fine, but I don't see how that prevents one from understanding in some capacity how another views things. I don't believe that God created us to worship him five times a day, or circle a cube-shaped building in distant Arabia - but I can understand how others believe in that.
Then I see inaccurate statements like this:
Christians don't believe in that bit. They only believe in the Trinity. Not the J-Trinity, but the Father, Son, Holy Ghost trinity
Yes they do, believe in one God.
In any case, people calling Christians non-Monotheists for being Trinitarians, have as impact on the reality of Christian beliefs as people saying 'Muslims believe in a moon god' has on the truth of their belief in Islam.