The Nugget:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Muslim challenge:
“The only way for Jesus to be God is through polytheism.”
My Response:
Not according to the Bible. You need to carefully read and study the New Testament. Reading the Old Testament would help too.
There is one God, but God has eternally existed as a Godhead made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19 speaks of being baptized “in the name” (singular) “of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
A Muslim Reply:
Please don’t make a purely monotheistic religion a polytheistic one. A father is a separate entity; so is a son; and Holy Ghost as well. Consolidating the three as one creates problem on the basis of reason except by unexplainable faith.
It is an opinion. Keep it on the belief in faith. That cannot be disputed. It remains to be between yourself and your God you believe in; rightly or wrongly.
My Reply:
Each of the members of the Trinity share many attributes which require that each of them are divine, namely, God. Some of those attributes are called incommunicable attributes: they cannot be given to another being or creature. This furnishes absolute proof of the deity of all three Persons. There are three Persons in the One Godhead. I can readily furnish you the Bible proof of these statements.
Muslim Response:
No need Sir, in my community even before the coming of Jesus and Muhammad SAW our God we believed in was ONE GOD. Those who have a Trinity God do so by adopting a strange faith.
My Reply:
It would probably be of help to you to read the Bible even more carefully. Do you believe in the deity of Jesus Christ?
Muslim Response:
Jesus is one among many Messengers of God. He ain’t God, n can’t be God bcos his creation is known and documented that his mother was Mary was born a human being. She got pregnant by the word of God. She carried him for a period of nine months and gave birth to Jesus as any other woman does. The child, Jesus is raised as a normal child. He ate food and slept. God doesn’t eat or sleep. Xtians even went further to state that Jesus was tortured, killed, buried and resurrected. All these are characteristics of a human being.
If it were to be a human God then it should have been Adam because he had no mother or father. Similarly, Eve should have been a God bcos she had neither a father or mother. Both of them were human beings. The position of Jesus was simpler compared to Adam and Eve but Xtians have not made the two their Gods. Why contradict yourself illogically?
My Response:
You ask, “Why contradict yourself illogically?” I answer that your belief contradicts what the Bible says. Jesus is not merely “one among many Messengers of God.” Jesus is the unique and only Son of God.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (KJV)
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave the only-one-of-His-kind Son, that everyone continuing to believe in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. (Lavender NT)
Muslim Response:
Entertain yourself with those verses from The New Testament even though they didn’t originate from Jesus son of Mary.
My Reply: Deity of Jesus Christ proven from Scripture