Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!bakken From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: "People of the Book" Message-ID: <4775@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Mar 90 04:00:42 GMT References: <4770@accuvax.nwu.edu> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Dave Bakken Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 22 Approved: naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) In article <4770@accuvax.nwu.edu> sadeghi@oxy.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes: > The position of the Quran with respect to the doctrine of > Trinity (one God in three forms) is very clear. It is a > sin and a balsphemy against God. I would be very interested in seeing Qur'anic verses that make this very clear (I am not saying they don't exist --- I have no idea. But I would be very intersted in seeing the references). Unfortunately, there was no Bible translated into Arabic for about 100 years after Muhammad. And I understand that he learned much of what he knew about Christianity from John of Alexandria, a Christian heretic who taught that Christians worship three gods: the Father, the Son, and the mary. -- Dave Bakken Internet: bakken@cs.arizona.edu 721 Gould-Simpson Bldg UUCP: uunet!arizona!bakken Dept of Computer Science; U of Arizona Phone: +1 602 621 8372 (w) Tucson, AZ 85721 USA FAX: +1 602 621 4246 [See 4:171 and 5:73 for reference to the trinity in the Quran --Naim]