May I ask you one question.
(Moderator, this is just a question and I do not intend to offend the belief in Christ in any way)
I have studied both the Islamic and Christian perspectives. God is the Trinity. That is, directly: 1=3. The first question that arose for me is: isn’t God One? Why can we invoke the Holy Spirit and Jesus alongside Him? He does not need anything biological, cannot be compared to His creations, and does not need to perpetuate Himself.
I understand that this is not about literal familial relationships or dividing God into three hypostases. But why is God so fixated on Earth? His power is incomprehensible—would it be logical for a deity to create two alter egos for the sake of Earth’s inhabitants?
The first followers of Christ, in fact, adhered to strict monotheism. I suspect that the deification of Jesus happened gradually as the religion passed through the Romans. God is the Lord of the seven heavens. We will never see beyond the visible universe, and religion teaches that the visible universe is the first heaven, which, compared to the second, is like a ring thrown into the desert. And so on, up to the seventh. Quadrillions of angels worship Him. The Almighty. And suddenly, He takes a SON—not a prophet, but a SON—on some speck of dust in the first heaven. Some might say that it’s the same with a prophet, because a prophet is equally insignificant, but taking a son among mortals or making one of His servants a warner and prophet is entirely different.
I have spoken with Muslims, and I found logical explanations for everything—hijab, the division of rights, and even the fact that the Prophet was married to a young girl. But is there really no logical explanation for the Trinity? I noticed that the concept of the Trinity—sun, its light, and heat—actually aligns more with the Islamic understanding.
Christianity worships the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and God Himself as three deities—not as a Father and His creations, but as three gods worthy of separate invocation in prayers. But if the sun’s light and heat are also separate gods, are the qualities of the sun the sun itself? Is the sun’s light a separate sun? Is the sun’s heat the sun itself? By this logic, they cannot be separate gods. In Islam, it makes more sense: God is the sun, the primary cause. The Holy Spirit and the Son—that is, Isa (Jesus) and Jibril (Gabriel)—are creations, having no familial relation to God. And in the end, Christians say that Jesus did not know the date of the end of the world, but God should know. When asked if this means Jesus is not God, they hesitate, saying that one must simply believe. It comes down to faith in Jesus and in God, but based on all this, the deification of Jesus seems forced.
In Christianity, there are no obligatory prayers, no concept that God hates any person. That is, there are Christian denominations that depict God as an OLD MAN IN THE SKY, even if metaphorically or in a paternal sense, but that is absurd. Among Christians, there are those who believe that God loves them only for their faith, and even if they die as lesbians/gays, murderers/rapists, but if they believed in Christ, the best is reserved for them. In Islam, it is somewhat similar—any person who maintains monotheism until death will eventually enter Paradise. But Islam tells a person to constantly improve themselves. Moreover, the first level of Islamic Hell is a catastrophe, not a place where one simply "serves time" and leaves. The most horrific tortures imaginable will be applied to a person, regardless of which "level" they are on.
In Islam, it is said that no one is safe from punishment, and while this may seem harsh, it somehow feels more logical to me.
How did Jesus suffer for the sins of Christians? By being beaten, humiliated, and nailed to the cross? I am not disputing that this is a terrible way to die, but in Islam, it is not certain that a sinner who died this way—even as a shahid (martyr), as Muslims say—saved even ONE PERSON, THEMSELVES. The suffering required to atone for the sins of billions of Christians would have to be so unimaginably horrific that Jesus would have had to endure at least the fourth or fifth level of Islamic Hell, not just the limited earthly suffering of a martyr.
There is also an explanation: God divided Himself into three hypostases, and as the Father, He knew everything, but as the Son, He was only a warner. But God (Allah) has given humans ‘aql (reason). Does He really ask His servants in Christianity to abandon their own reason to believe in something so doubtful, for which only very suspicious and far-fetched historical facts remain? Muslims know their Prophet through his contemporaries—they know which side he slept on, how he ate and drank, how he joked, and how he died. The Bible, however, was written by people who did not know Jesus during His lifetime. Islam recognizes all other prophets except for figures like Ezekiel, but for a Christian who tries to believe in the Trinity and encounters rational thought, continuing to believe in the Trinity without evidence will seem like an attempt to justify what they wish to be true.
No Muslim is against loving the One God. Is my spirit my entire self? Is my eternal soul my entire existence? It is me and my qualities, which are not separate from me. I am not a trinity; I, like anyone else, am a person with qualities. No religion denies this.
I do not deny that I have an eternal self and a spirit, but this in no way proves the triune nature of God. How can the triune nature of a human possibly explain the triune nature of God? Can God have a first body, a soul, and a body after death? God will not die.
Muslims also have a worldly body, a soul, and that which will abide in the Hereafter (Akhirat). This is in no way connected to God.
Indeed, the words of God penetrate the hearts of believers; they are awed by the warnings and act righteously. However, other Christians have shown me texts that simply command to love the One God, and I agree with this. They ignored my arguments.
Please, I do not want to offend anyone. I am simply seeking a logical explanation for the Trinity. Wishing everyone well.