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 teaching concerning the Trinity. And the three gods which the Moslem believes the Christian worships are the Father, the Mother, and the Son. In other words, they are God the Father, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus. Little does a Moslem comprehend the real Christian significance of God, who is not only one in personality and power and love, but also in the revealing of himself to the world in Jesus Christ and to individuals by his indwelling Holy Spirit. But all the Moslem can see in the Christian Trinity is the absurd mathematical equation that 1 + 1 + 1 = 1.

3. The Christian conception that Jesus is the son of God is utter foolishness and the very worst heresy. The Koran teaches concerning God, "He begetteth not, neither is he begotten." Therefore the Christians are all wrong. The Moslem idea concerning Jesus' sonship to God is that God became a physical father in the natural, human sense of the word which of course is absurd to the Christians as well as to the Moslems. Christians reject the notion of the physical sonship of Christ as quickly and as vigorously as do the Moslems. However, the Koran gives the Moslem no clue to the real Christian conception of the spiritual sonship of Jesus, which is that Jesus is God's son of the Holy Spirit, for "God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

4. The crucifixion is a lie. In the Koran the Moslem reads that Jesus was not crucified, that he was not slain, but another whom God made to resemble him