07-28-2009, 11:32 AM
The trinity is a perpetual stumbling block for Muslims, just as Christ is for the Jews, God was for the Pharaoh, etc.
Yet, all religions believe that God (or the truth generically) cannot contradict itself. Therefore, the question should not be "what do Christians have wrong" but "what do I have wrong?"
From a strictly logic point of view, you have set-up a straw-man argument:
"Christians believe X and Y"
"X and Y contradict one another"
"Therefore, Christianity is contradictory."
Yet, it was you who have defined X and Y and have made both the interpretation and the connection.
One can just as easily ask why Muhammad is so important, since he was only a man. Or Moses, Abraham, Isaiah, etc.
How can we be living and dying at the same time?
There are many questions which require some acceptance of faith and mystery. To deny one half-truth while creating another half-truth leaves you still divided within yourself. God is trying to remove that division.
The trinity, in many ways, is just a reflection of ourselves, but they exist in perfect balance with one another and within themselves. Just as you are flesh, emotion, consciousness, and a result of the presence of another.