Fountain of Christianity — Page 51
51 placed it with the teaching of the Oneness of God, which they continued to teach their children and which continued to be reiterated by hundreds of Prophets. This would go against all reason and logic. I have myself made an effort in this regard, and have asked some Jews to tell me on oath whether or not the teaching given to them in the Torah was that of the Trinity? They wrote back to me—and I have preserved their letters—that the Torah does not contain even a hint of the Trinity; and that the Torah’s teaching about God is the same as that of the Holy Quran. Hence, we can only pity the people who have become so obstinate about a doctrine that is to be found neither in the Torah, nor in the Holy Quran, nor even in the Gospels! Nowhere do the Gospels even hint at the Trinity, they only speak of the One God Who is without peer. Some eminent and even hostile clergymen have had to admit that the Gospels do not teach the doctrine of the Trinity. How then did this concept find its way into the Christian faith? According to Christian scholars, this doctrine was borrowed from the Greeks, who believed in three gods just as the Hindus be- lieve in Trimurti (three idols). When Paul turned his attention to the Greeks, ∗ he wished to please them so that they could convert to Christianity. With this in mind, he introduced into the Christian faith the concept of 'the three persons of the Godhead', to mirror the Greek concept of three gods, despite the fact that Jesus as himself had never thought of such a thing. Like all Prophets, his teaching ∗ 'Jews' in the Urdu original seems to be a misprint. [Publishers]