The oneness of God in Islam
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. »
