23:21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
23:22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
Jesus Christ is believed to have appeared in the Old Testament. Key examples include Jesus appearing as the divine Angel of the Lord to figures like Hagar, Moses, and Gideon. Understanding these appearances supports the view that Jesus' divinity and presence are consistent throughout both the Old and New Testaments.
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The Trinity is not a philosophical puzzle invented centuries after Christ, but the most ancient reality of all - present on the first page of the Bible. From Genesis onwards, Scripture consistently speaks of the Most High, His Word who comes down and is seen, and His Spirit who hovers and fills. When the Bible finally declares that "the LORD is one," it uses a word for unity, not solitude. Even the golden furniture of the Tabernacle was a diagram of the Father, the Son and the Spirit at the heart of Israel's worship.
The claim that the Trinity was invented at Nicaea under Greek influence is almost the exact reverse of the truth: it was Arius's denial of the Trinity that came from Greek philosophy, and Nicaea was a rescue of the ancient biblical faith. In the Gospels the highest possible claims stand at the very beginning, on the lips of Jesus Himself - and His enemies understood Him perfectly, which is why they crucified Him. Jesus never pronounced the bare sentence “I am God,” and there is a profound biblical reason why: He said instead exactly what the eternal Son should say.
Christian and Tariq chat over tea after dinner at Tariq’s home, the conversation turns to faith. Tariq raises the topic of the Trinity.
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The key question in any conversation about God is not only "Is God one?" but "What kind of God is being revealed?" - and that question is answered by stories. The Qur'an does not simply reject the Trinity after setting out what the Bible teaches; it retells the Bible's own narratives with the crucial details reshaped or removed, and as the stories change, the portrait of God changes with them. Meanwhile Islam's own doctrine of oneness, Tawheed, carries unresolved tensions: a God declared utterly unlike creation, yet described in strikingly human terms; a God who alone is eternal, yet whose speech is confessed as eternal too.
