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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 10 )are absolutely beyond human comprehension, and therefore any attempt to define His essence is not only futile but also even dangerous to our faith and spiritual welfare, for it will certainly lead us astray.Finally, I must remind Christians that unless they believe in the absolute unity of God, and renounce the belief in the three persons, they are certainly unbelievers in the true God. Strictly speaking, modern Christians are polytheists, only with this exception that the gods of the heathen are false and imaginary, whereas the three gods of the Churches have a distinct character, of whom the Father —as another epithet for Creator— is the One true God, but the son is only a prophet and servant of God, and the third person is one of the innumerable holy spirits in the service of the Almighty God.The Old Testament and the Quran condemn the doctrine of three2persons in God; the New Testament does not expressly hold or defend it, but even if it contains hints and traces concerning the Trinity, it is no authority at all, because it was neitherseen nor written by Christ himself, nor in the language he spoke, nor did it exist in its present form and contents for at least the first two centuries after him.Some two centuries after the idolatrous and impenitent Kingdom of Israel was overthrown and the whole population of the ten tribes deported into Assyria, Jerusalem and the glorious temple of Solomon (pbuh) were razed to the ground by the Chaldeans, and the non-massacred remnant of Judah and Benjamin was transported into Babylonia. After a period of seventy years in captivity, the Jews were permitted to return to their country with full authority to build again their ruined city and the temple. When the foundations of the new house of God2 Qurán, 5:73. They disbelieve who say: Allah is one of three (in a Trinity:) for there is nogod except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous chastisement will befall the disbelievers. among them. (Editors).