Be ready always to give an answer to
every man that asked you a reason of the hope that in you with meekness and
fear.
(I Peter 3:15).
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter I:
The All-gathering Unity of God in the Holy Trinity
The Unity of
God in Christianity
The Holy
Trinity in Christianity
The Necessity
of the Trinity in the Unity
Chapter II:
The Testimony of the Kuran for the Unity of
the Holy Trinity
The
Kuranic Testimony of Christian Monotheism
The
Kuranic Testimony of the Holy Trinity
The
Kuranic Testimony that Christ is the Word of God
The
Kuranic Testimony of the Holy Spirit
Chapter
III:
The
Names of the Holy Trinity
The
Father
The
Son
The
Holy Spirit
Chapter IV:
The Counterfeit
Trinity
The Trinity of
the Maryamiyya Sect
The Christian
Attitude Towards this Counterfeit Trinity
The Attitude of
Islam
Chapter V:
The Shining of
Grace
The Proof of
the Spirit
Groping in
Darkness
The Grace of
Revelation
Overwhelming
Compassion
The Light of
Faith
The Greatest
Proof
Summary
Quiz
Introduction
Difficult facts are given to an infant in a simplified and generalized way. As this infant matures and his perception becomes complete, he is dissatisfied with simplified and summarized. He endeavors to search for accuracy and details in matters, for his intellect is ready and prepared to absorb them.
This is also the case with mankind. When mankind was in infancy, the Lord gave them a simplified and generalized picture of Himself to the extent that they could perceive. That is why the apostle Paul said, “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (I Corinthians 3:1-2).
When the
perfect time had come and the mentality of believers grew, the Lord began to
declare that He is one in His unique Trinity. He uncovered for us this great
secret, which was concealed from mankind in their state of perceptual and
spiritual weakness. When the Lord gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to us, He
revealed His own life and His divine status to us as the apostle Paul said,
“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all
things, even the depths of God” (I Corinthians 2:10).
This doctrine
is still a secret unknown to the carnal. They resist it because of their lack
of perception of the facts of true faith and the concealed secret of God.
With the
Lord’s grace I wrote this book to simplify and clarify what was impossible to
understand and difficult to perceive. The book is written so that anyone who
reads it can believe in this divine secret and know that this belief does not
contradict the intellect, but it satisfies it, and can see that even the books
of those who fight against this belief, because of lack of knowledge, clearly
testify this creed.
As I offer
this book to you as a clarification of our most holy belief, I raise my heart
to the Lord to make it a source of blessing for many people, and I pray that it
will open for them the gate of true belief. Then they can enjoy the love of
God, the Ether, and the Holy Spirit: the Son, and the fellowship and the gift
of the only God to who belongs the everlasting glory. Amen.
Father
Zachariah Botross
Chapter I
THE ALL-GATHERING UNITY
OF GOD
IN THE HOLY
TRINITY
v The Unity of God in
Christianity
v The Holy Trinity in Christianity
v The Necessity of the
Trinity in the Unity
I- The Unity of God
in Christianity
We Christians believe in one God who has no partner.
He is infinite, filling the heavens and the earth. He is the creator of all,
Eternal, and Everlasting. His kingdom is without end.
This creed is very clear in the holy Gospel.
The Christian canon of belief is what follows:
1.
The Lord
Jesus Himself taught this belief when a Jew came to ask Him about the greatest
commandment. He answered him, “Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one
Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:29 -30). This is the first
commandment. It is an echo and confirmation of Deuteronomy 6: 4-9. If this
commandment had been written in the language of the Kurān, it would have been
“God our God, is the only (unique) God, the everlasting God.”
2.
The
apostle Paul clarified this saying, “Is God just for the Jews and not for Gentiles
as well? Yes, for Gentiles also because God is one” (Romans 3:29 -30).
3.
And the
apostle James expressed the same belief saying, “You believe that God is one.
You do well” (James 2:19 ).
4.
The
Christian creed was taken from these texts along with others in the Bible. The
Church has been avowing these beliefs for generations saying, “truly we
believe in one God … Creator of heavens and earth, and the visible and
invisible.” Hence, my dear friend, you perceive that we Christians believe in
one God and not three gods. We shall clarify the meaning or Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit in discussions about the holy Trinity of Christianity.
II- The Holy Trinity in
Christianity
The doctrine of the holy Trinity in no way
means the existence of three gods as some people wrongly imagine. The meaning
of this doctrine is – God is one …
Existing in
Himself, so He declared Himself as the Father, Speaking the word, so He
declared Himself as the Son, the Word Alive in his spirit, so He declared
Himself as the Holy Spirit.
It should not
be understood from these names that there is a bodily relationship as in human
term, but rather it has a spiritual meaning.
These names
are not established or invented by man, but they are the words of divine
inspiration in the Holy Book, as you will see from the following references:
(1)
The Lord
Jesus said to His disciples, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nation,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”
(Matthew 28:19). Monotheism is clear in His words, “baptize them in the name.”
He did not say, “baptize them in the names of Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.” Yet the Trinity is clear presented in His words, “the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.”
(2)
The
apostle John very clearly confirms this understanding, “Those who testify in
heaven are three, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit and these
three are one” (I John 5:8).
When
comparing the two verses, you find the names of the holy Trinity: the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is the holy Trinity in the only God in whom we
believe.
III- The Necessity
of the Trinity in the Unity
In summary,
the necessity of the Trinity in the unity is clear from the above references
and discussion.
(1)
The one God, creator of all living things,
must have a personal existence Himself.
(2)
The one God, who created man with ability to
speak, must Himself also speak the word.
(3)
The one God, who created life in every living
being, must Himself be alive in the spirit.
Therefore, it
is certain that a holy Trinity should be in the only God as we have already
clarified. This is our true belief: God is one in the Trinity and not three
gods.
