{"id":218,"date":"2007-11-25T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/218"},"modified":"2008-01-11T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:38:49","slug":"linkage-a-muslim-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-a-muslim-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage: a Muslim challenge (Dale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingilm.com\/archives\/205\" title=\"The Trinity Challenge\">Trinity Challenge<\/a><\/strong>, from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uga.edu\/islam\/Sufism.html\" title=\"What is Sufism?\" target=\"_blank\">Sufi<\/a> Muslim blog. The comments there are wild and wooly. There&#8217;s a charge of polytheism, and some non-trinitarian Christians weigh in.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, of course, cannot be met.  But it seems to me <strong>he&#8217;s carelessly overlooking the options that the Trinity doctrine is: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) implicitly taught<\/strong> in the Bible (i.e. it is deducible from what is there, though not explicitly stated there),<\/p>\n<p><strong>or (2) that the doctrine is the best explanation<\/strong> of what is (explicitly and implicitly) taught there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of cheap to insist that either the doctrine is explicitly stated, or it ain&#8217;t in the Bible at all.<\/p>\n<p>Compare: <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/54\" title=\"Trinity \">this poll<\/a> here at trinities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinity Challenge, from a Sufi Muslim blog. The comments there are wild and wooly. There&#8217;s a charge of polytheism, and some non-trinitarian Christians weigh in. The challenge, of course, cannot be met. But it seems to me he&#8217;s carelessly overlooking the options that the Trinity doctrine is: (1) implicitly taught in the Bible (i.e.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-a-muslim-challenge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linkage: a Muslim challenge (Dale)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}