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[quote]ASWK! I think Muslims have been asked to be tolerant as far as doctrinal issues are concerned. To each his own. But the number 1 intolerant issue in Islam is Shirk (Association) with God almighty.
Throughout time God has shown his presence through his messengers. Unfortunately people of the old (and even today) have a temptation to worship the creation than the creator-since God is invisible/incomprehensible.
In Quran, Christians have been described as people closer to Muslims. But instead of praising and rubbing each others back, we have to tell our Christian brothers that Quran has corrected/advised the Christians, not to call God as three entities but one. Would you believe the word Trinity is nowhere mentioned in the Bible but the Quran. As Quran was the final revelation. It had to correct all previous misconceptions. Let me just put forward the Quranic mode of message delivery.
a. Allah
b. Holy Spirit-Gabriel
c. Messenger
In Islam these three entities are distinct and act as source (Allah) and dissemination of message (Gabriel and Jesus or any other messenger).
In many places in Bible Jesus called himself Son of Man. 
He was a mighty messenger, but nowhere has he said I am God or worship me. When Jesus was asked the first commandment, he said, “Hear O Israel! My Lord our God is One and you should love your God with all your heart….” This is a Biblical and not a Quranic quotation. If there had been something else, he would have out rightly stated it ut like all messengers he reiterated True Monotheism-One God.
The quotation which the missionaries mostly use to prove his divinity is when he said, "I and my father are one". Christians have taken it literally.
Quran gives a similar message. "Follow Allah and his messenger". There is another place in the Quran where God tells the Prophet (regarding a pledge under a tree) that is was not your hand they pledged but Allah’s. But it does not mean that Prophet Mohammad is divine. If you look at the source/dissemination equation I explained above, indeed God and Jesus/any messengers are One- (in purpose/goal). Since we cannot see God, we look at his chosen representative to comprehend/understand God and his message.
I know there is no easy way to prove one over another, but as far as I know there are some Christians themselves who doubt the divinity of Jesus. For the first three hundred years after Christ, there was a serious dispute between the Unitarians and the Trinitarians, till when Roman emperor Constantine came and legalized Trinity. 
God will stop remaining God if he starts doing ungodly things like showing himself as his creation, be it fire, man, stone, air or rock. This is a concept of pantheism prevalent in pagan societies like India, pre-Islamic Arabia, Romans and Greek.
The best answer to the concept is given by God himself in Quran in Surah Ikhlas, when a group of Christians from Najran came to Medina in the Prophet’s mosque to talk about the incarnation of Jesus. The answer came as a direct revelation:
“Say he is is Allah the One
Allah the Eternal!
He begets not nor is begotten.
And there is none comparable unto him”.
So the moment you can make a mental picture of God, he stops remaining God.
God Bless All…[/quote]

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