I have read in Quran that the holy trinity is false. I am not making an argument but I wanna know why is it revealed in the Quran that this is false. in manyy verses, God says that Jesus was created the way Adam was created but we never considered Adam to be the son of God. At the same time what confuses me is that in many verses, (Arabic version) it states that Jesus was vouched with the Holy spirit but in the English version and commentaries they are highlighting the phrase as a holy inspiration and it is guided by God.
Ali 'Imran 3:59 (Being a man like Adam)
Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:253 (Regarding the Holy spirit)
Good morning! I pray your having a wonderful day and your family well. I will make this a longer post to answer the points that you might want to understand better. I am trying to be complete in my explanation.
First I would ask if you listened to the video I posted above about the Incarnation? Did you have the opportunity to listen and could you understand the Pastors speaking?
To speak on the topic I believe you want to speak of:
The Qur'an is a book which came after the Holy Scriptures, by about 600 years after the resurrection - as we already know.
By that time Christianity was fairly widespread in much of the region. Various Christians believers were trading and various other activities like sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ as they went about their lives.
The above in dark blue is what was mainly Christian in the region by 325 AD. And the light blue is what was mainly Christian by 600 AD.
The argument made in the Qur'an is that Jesus was a Spirit from God rather than the Spirit of God. Not the Incarnation of God.
This is, to Christians, a horrible blasphemy against our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. (We do not get upset for this but rather choose to correct any misunderstanding in love.)
In order to determine the matter we can look at both Scripture itself and the Prophets.
We believe the Bible (all the Books of the Bible) is a reliable collection of historical documents written by eye witnesses during the lifetime of other eye witnesses. They report supernatural events which occurred in fulfillment of specific prophecies and who claim their writings are Divine in nature rather than of human origin.
In 2 Peter 1:16-22 it is written:
"For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention has to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed."
Words such as this were repeated in front of many large crowds, during a time there were still hundreds of living eye witnesses of Christ's life, death and resurrection.
Anyone in the crowds back then, had the opportunity to ask other eye witnesses for confirmation of these events, which of course many did.
Luke from the Gospels was a physician and an historian who was tasked to do just that, go to speak with the disciples and others about what they had seen and heard in order to know the truth accurately. The Book of Luke is recorded in the Bible.
Luke 1:1-4
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
The Bible itself, though written by over 40 people from multiple cultures across the span of 1500 years and tells one singular story from beginning to end.
And the story it tells is wholly complete. Nothing
can be added to it without destroying the story that Scripture is telling us.
And the story it tells rests on the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. He is the Cornerstone holding it altogether, for He is Lord, Savior, High Priest and King. During His first advent He was God incarnate, come to save humanity.
We have a division in the Bible, the first portion is called the Old Testament, and the Second portion is called the New Testament.
The word Testament here can also be translated as Covenant.
It's a legal term denoting the two main Covenants - legal agreements - God made with His people thoughout time.
In order to bring forth the Messiah God chose the Hebrews through Abraham. He chose the Hebrews because they were lowly and weak, the least among us, in order to show a picture to the world of ourselves, and also to show His Power and Glory.
But for the Praise of His Glory He raised them up to bring forth the Messiah, one like us who could connect with our pain, in our humanity, but whom, like God, could do what we could not and live in perfect accordance with the law, in order to free us from the bondage of sin, and pay the price for our sin in our stead, being both the Just, and the Justifier.
The old Covenant in which the Messianic law was added for their sin, was to teach us that we all fall short of His perfect Righteousness; that apart from Him we can do nothing good.
The law of God requires perfect righteousness in act, attitude and nature. I earlier added an attachment in this thread in which sin was thereby defined and explained so I won't expound upon that further.
Christ's life, death and subsequent resurrection lived that life and died that death for us that we could not live, in order to draw ALL the kinds of men (Jew and Gentile alike, all the nations) Jesus Christ brings us into the New Covenant now. He cut them off, to bring us in, equally. His resurrection from the dead proves all is accomplished.
There was something called a dividing wall in the Jewish Temple that separated the Jews from the Gentiles.
In real life, Jesus is the tearing down of that wall of separation. It's the wall that separates Jew from Gentile first, and Jesus also represents the rending or tearing of the veil that separates man from God. He becomes for us all, reconciliation in and under the New Covenant.
The Jews were cut off from the Old Covenant upon Jesus' Death, and the New Covenant in Christ was inaugurated on the day of Pentacost, in which all people - Jew and Gentiles alike, were invited into the New Covenant from that day forward as brothers. (Christ is seen here in His humanity shown to us as our joined elder brother, we are adopted as sons, equal before God, brothers in covenant when we believe in Jesus, who is the only Door. Our inheritance is salvation, and glorification with Christ in Heaven for eternity.)
When Jesus says I am the Way, The Truth, and The Life, no one comes to the Father but through Me...
He is the door we go through, all of us, to know God.
The entire Bible, from Beginning to End, tells of Him. Everything from Genesis 1:1 to the last word in the book of Revelation is the Revelation of God, the 1 Triune God, through the Person and Work of Christ and His Holy Spirit.
The Bible tells us about the New Covenant from the Prophet Jeremiah 31:33-34.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
This has been the Covenant everyone who calls themselves Christian lives under for the last 2000 years. The New Testament explains the New Covenant.
You enter into the Covenant when you believe on Christ for salvation, as shown us in Scripture:
Romans 10:9-10: "If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".
Acts 16:30, 31: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved".
John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"
I pray this wasn't too long and I do hope I properly understood what your question was. It took me 35 minutes to edit, so if you read in email then it's slightly different, I tried being more clear.
