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150 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God

and yet three and three and yet one? Can you conceive of a son who
existed before he was born? A son who is as old as his father? I sug-
gest that the doctrine of the Trinity finds no place at all in the Word
of God. There is no mention of the word trinity in the Bible, and it
was introduced into Christianity, as most of us here will be aware,
in the 3rd century A.D. … The word "God" occurs about 1,300 times
in the New Testament, and in not one of those passages where the
word "God" occurs is there any suggestion of a plurality of persons
in the Godhead... But that God, I submit, is unknown to the pages of
the Scriptures." 47
Heaster's words are unequivocal, and many other scholars today
express the same views. John Hick, for example, author of The Rainbow of
Faiths, reaches the following conclusion: (Surely God is beyond all the ex-
pressions in the following summary):

1. When we look at the research carried out in recent years, we see
that Prophet Jesus did not teach that he was God, or the Son of God, the
second element in the Trinity. In complete contrast to that belief, he al-
ways taught that he was the son of Man.
2. Christian authorities and theologians are unable to expound the
traditional Christian belief that Prophet Jesus is both fully God and
also fully human in a comprehensible manner.

3. Belief in incarnation does irreparable harm to
Christians' relations with other religious tra-
ditions and their adherents. That is be-
cause this belief implies that
Christianity is superior to
other religions. 48
One matter needs
to be clarified here.