is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center
is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center
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(١٢٢)IS ALLAH (S.W) ONE OR THREE?here to mention some of these parties, whom the church consideredheretics f<strong>or</strong> denying Jesus’ (PBUH) divinity and the Trinity. Theywere the Nazarenes, the Arians, the Ebonites, the Apollinar<strong>is</strong>, andthe Nest<strong>or</strong>ians. 1Monothe<strong>is</strong>m After the Ref<strong>or</strong>mationWith the reduction of the auth<strong>or</strong>ity and the power of the church, theunitary parties reappeared, and the Trinity became unstable. Th<strong>is</strong>was Martin Luther and others’ expression. Luther said, “The Trinity <strong>is</strong>a weak expression, lacks convincing power, and <strong>is</strong> never menti<strong>one</strong>din the holy books.”In h<strong>is</strong> book “The H<strong>is</strong>t<strong>or</strong>y of the Unitarians”, Filbert said, “Calvinannounced that, “it <strong>is</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e suitable f<strong>or</strong> the Nicene Creed, which was<strong>is</strong>sued by the Nicene Council, to be a song instead of being astatement of belief.”When Calvin wrote h<strong>is</strong> book, “The Institutes of Chr<strong>is</strong>tian Religion”, heseldom menti<strong>one</strong>d the Trinity.At the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of Unitariansincreased; their contribution became m<strong>or</strong>e and yielded about fourhundred churches in Britain and its colonies; the same happened inthe United States. Besides two theological colleges in Britain thatteach Unitarian<strong>is</strong>m - Manchester and Oxf<strong>or</strong>d - another two collegesex<strong>is</strong>t in America - <strong>one</strong> in Chicago and the other in Prickly inCalif<strong>or</strong>nia. There are around <strong>one</strong> hundred and sixty churches <strong>or</strong>colleges in Hungary, and many others in the Chr<strong>is</strong>tian Europeancountries. 1In 1921 C.E, at a conference held in Oxf<strong>or</strong>d, which was attended bymany religious scholars, the chairperson was the b<strong>is</strong>hop of Carlyle,Dr. Rachel. He said in h<strong>is</strong> speech, “That h<strong>is</strong> reading of the HolyBible, does not make him believe in Jesus as God, and f<strong>or</strong> what <strong>is</strong>menti<strong>one</strong>d in John’s Gospel, which <strong>is</strong> never menti<strong>one</strong>d in thesynoptic, cannot be considered as h<strong>is</strong>t<strong>or</strong>ical.” He also believed thatall that was said about Jesus (PBUH): h<strong>is</strong> birth of a virgin, healingd<strong>is</strong>eases, <strong>or</strong> saying that h<strong>is</strong> spirit preceded human ex<strong>is</strong>tence - do not1 - The Church H<strong>is</strong>t<strong>or</strong>y, Eusebius, pp 130, 3431 - Monothe<strong>is</strong>tic Chr<strong>is</strong>tians in H<strong>is</strong>t<strong>or</strong>y, Ahmad Abdul Wahab, pp 45-53
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