1.        QUESTION #1:  "WHY DO CHRISTIANS COVER UP THEIR

ABSURD TEACHINGS ABOUT GOD BY CALLING THEM A

‘MYSTERY'?  ISLAM IS CLEAR IN SAYING GOD IS ONE!"
(Western converts to Islam often express their relief to find that,
"Islam's teaching about God is straight forward, and void of the
‘mysteries' of Christianity, such as the trinity and the deity of Christ,
which never made sense to me.")

        ANSWER:  If, after so many years of scientific research, the
physical universe, in which we live, is still beyond our complete
understanding, why should we think it strange that we cannot fully
understand the invisible Creator of this universe?  In fact if we could
completely understand God, then we would be equal to Him!   The Bible tells
us:
        As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8,9) 
        How unsearchable his judgments and his paths beyond tracing out.
(Romans11:33)

2.  QUESTION #2: "DO YOU BELIEVE IN THREE GODS?"

        ANSWER #1: "Jesus Himself said that God is One": "‘The most
important one,' answered Jesus, ‘is this: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God, the Lord is one."'" (Mark 12:29)

        ANSWER #2:   "The Bible categorically states 28 times that God is
One!":
        - In the Torah (Taurat): Deut.6:4,5 - "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our
God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your strength."; (see also Deut.4:35;
Deut.4:39;  I Kings 8:60;  2 Kings 19:19);
        - In the Psalms (Zabur):   Ps.86:10 - "For you are great and do
marvelous deeds; you alone are God.";
        - In the books of the prophets:    Is.44:6,8 - "This is what the
Lord says...I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no
God."; "You are my witnesses.  Is there any God besides me?  No, there is
no other Rock; I know not one."; (see also Is.37:16; Is.37:20;
Is.43:10,11;  Is.44:24;  Is.45:5;  Is.45:6;  Is.45:18;  Is.45:21;  Is.46:9;
 Is.48:12;  Hosea 13:4);
        - In the New Testament (Injil):   1 Tim.2:5,6a - "For there is one
God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave
himself as a ransom for all men."; (see also  Mark 12:29;  John 5:44;
Rom.3:30;  I Cor.8:4;  Eph.4:6;  I Tim.1:17; James 2:19;  Jude 25)

        ANSWER #3:  God created all things by Himself:  I am the Lord, who
has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out
the earth by myself. (Isaiah 44:24).   He uses several metaphors to
describe how He did it:
        - by His Wisdom: I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence...The Lord
brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was
appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began.  When
there were no oceans, I was given birth....I was there when he set the
heaven in place...Then I was the craftsman as his side... (Proverbs 8:1-31)
 Did God ever exist without wisdom? No!  Did God create his own wisdom?
No!  God's wisdom is "from eternity, from the beginning."  God's wisdom was
"brought forth" at the time of creation, and by His wisdom God created
everything.  But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by
his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. (Jeremiah
10:12)
        - by His Right Hand: My own hand laid the foundations of the earth
and my right hand spread out the heavens. (Isaiah 48:13)  Does this mean
that God's right hand created instead of God Himself?  Of course not!   God
created everything by His right hand - by His power.
        - by The Breath of His Mouth: By the word of the Lord were the
heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth...For he spoke,
and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. (Psalm 33:6,9)  These
verses clearly show that the breath of God's mouth and God's word are the
same.
        - by His Word: In the beginning was the word, and the word was with
God, and the word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him
all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
(John 1:1-3)  The Word of God is the communication or manifestation of God.
 God's Word is God Himself; not a second God.  The Word was "with" God
(two?) and yet the Word "was" God (one)!  Now notice verse 14: The Word
became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  We have seen his glory, the
flory of the One and Only, Who came from the Father, full of grace and
truth.  Somehow, by the power of God, God's eternal word ‘became' a human
being like us named Jesus! (God can do anything!)   Jesus is God's word,
the breath of His mouth, His right hand and His wisdom, through whom all
things were created.

3.  QUESTION  #3:   "HOW CAN JESUS BE GOD?    
WHY DO YOU BLASPHEME BY CALLING JESUS GOD?" 
        GENERAL ANSWER: Explanation from John 1:1-3,14: "The eternal Word
of God, which was with God (seems like two) in the beginning, also was God
(one; not two).  Everything Allah created, He created by saying, ‘Be!' - He
created everything by His Word.  Allah's Word is not another God; Allah's
Word is Allah's communication of Himself.  Can Allah exist without His
Word?   Was there ever a time when Allah's Word did not exist?   It is like
my word or communication, which is in one sense a part of me, but is not a
second being, separate from me.  So Allah is One, and He has Word, which
comes out from Him and communicates Him.  Jesus is ‘Kalamat Ullah,' the
Word of Allah, who came out from Allah and came into the world as a human
being.  God in His sovereignty chose to reveal Himself to us - by His Word,
Who became a human being and lived among us, having become one of us." 

There are really three parts to this question:

a.        QUESTION #3a: "HOW CAN JESUS BE GOD WHEN HE DID THINGS GOD
DOESN'T/WON'T DO?  

After all:    - Jesus talked about God as His
God, but God has no God.
        - Jesus prayed to God instead of to himself.
        - Jesus got hungry and thirsty (Matt.4:2; John 19:28), but God
never gets hungry or thirsty (Psalm 50:9-13; Acts 17:25).
        - Jesus was tempted by the devil (Matt.4:1 & Heb.4:15), but God
cannot be tempted (James 1:13).
        - Jesus got tired (John 4:6; Matthew 8:24), but God doesn't get
tired (Psalm 121:4; Isaiah 40:28).
        - Jesus learned obedience and grew up into a mature and perfect man
(Hebrews 5:9), but God never changes (James 1:17).
        - Jesus was born and also died, but God is everlasting."

        ANSWER: #1:  "The description of Jesus we read in the Injil is the
description of One Who ‘became' a human being.  Notice it does not say that
a man somehow become God; it says Allah's eternal Word became a man.  In
Hebrews 2:17 it says Jesus became like us ‘in every way'- bone of our bone
and flesh of our flesh!  Therefore, because He became a real human being
just like us, He did things we do.  If he didn't do those things he
wouldn't really be one of us. 
                "Jesus is Almighty God, but for our sake when He became a
man He chose to no longer function as God.  He is still God and could use
His powers as God, but chose instead to only function as a man.
                "As a human being, He was born, grew in knowledge and
maturity, got hungry & thirsty, got tired and sleepy,  prayed to His
‘Father' in heaven, was tempted in every way that we are (but he never
sinned), and died (but God raised Him up victorious over death).  All these
things prove He became a real human being.  Jesus is  not an apparition nor
was he just pretending to be a man.  As a human being, he had all of our
needs and limitations, except for our sinful, fallen nature.  One reason He
is called the ‘last Adam' (1 Cor.15:45) is because he became just like Adam
was before he sinned."

b.       QUESTION #3b: "HOW CAN JESUS BE GOD AND MAN AT THE SAME TIME? 

HOW CAN HE BE ON EARTH PRAYING TO GOD IN HEAVEN, TALKING ABOUT

GOD AS ‘MY FATHER’ AND HE AND THE FATHER STILL BE ONE GOD?”  

        ANSWER #2: "God can do anything!  Just as in the act of creation,
God's eternal Word came out of Him when He spoke to create all things (but
He did not become two gods), so when he spoke His eternal Word into the
virgin Mary, God's Word remained God and at the same time became a man like
us.  Jesus never stopped being almighty Allah's Eternal Word.  It says,
‘The Word became flesh...' (John 1:14); not ‘The Word changed to flesh.'
He is not sometimes God and sometimes man, nor is He half God and half man.
 He is both fully God and fully human at the same time!"  

c.  QUESTION #3c: "BUT WHY WOULD GOD DO SUCH A THING?  He doesn't need
Jesus or anyone else to die for us.  God can forgive whomever He wants to
forgive!"

        ANSWER #3:
        1) God's Love:  One of God's greatest attributes is love.   True
love is self giving (not taking) for the sake of another.  God gave Himself
to us in order to forgive us and save us from eternal judgement/death. 
                ...he too shared in their humanity (flesh and blood) so
that by his death he might destroy...the devil and free those who all their
lives were held in slavery by their fear of death... (Hebrews 2;14,15);
                He learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made
perfect he became the source of eternal salvation...  (Hebrews 5:8,9)
        2) God's Justice:  God's justice requires Him to do this.
(Rom.3:22-26)   (illustration of the cost of forgiveness)

Other studies on the Deity of Christ:

        ANSWER #4:  The greetings and salutations in the New Testament
epistles seem to imply His deity in a unique way.  All of these letters
were written after Jesus had ascended to heaven and was no longer
physically present with his people.   Still the apostles presented him as:
        1) the co-author (with God the Father) of grace, peace, mercy and
faith.  Can these things come from a man?
        2) the co-sender of His apostles.  Who else but God can send from
heaven?
        3) our Savior in the same sentence where God is presented as our
Savior.
        4) the one who is given glory for ever and ever.   Who else but God
can receive glory for ever and ever? 
        5) one with whom we have fellowship just like we have fellowship
with the Father, even though he is in heaven. 
        6) the one who keeps us and brings us to eternal life.  Can anyone
but God do these things?

        HERE ARE THE VERSES:
        - "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord
Jesus Christ."  (Rom.1:7)
        - "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ." (I Cor.1:3)
        - "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you."  (I Cor.16:23)
        - "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ."  (II Cor.1:2)
        - "May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."  (II Cor.13:14)
        - "Paul, an apostle - sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus
Christ and God the Father...Grace and peace to you from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ."  (Gal.1:1-3)
        - "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,
brothers."  (Gal.6:18)
        - "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ."  (Eph.1:2)
        - "Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ." (Eph.6:23)
        - "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ."  (Phil.1:2)
        - "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."
(Phil.4:23)
        - "To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ."  (I Thess.1:1)
        - "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."  (I Thess.5:28)
        - "To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ:  Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ."  (2 Thess.1:1,2)
        - "Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times
and in every way.  The Lord be with all of you...The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all."  (2 Thess.3:16,18)
        - "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our
Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope...Grace, mercy and peace from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord."  (I Tim.1:1,2)
        - "Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our
Lord."  (2 Tim.1:2)
        - "...by the command of God our Savior...Grace and peace from God
the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior."  (Titus 1:3,4)
        - "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ."  (Philemon 3)
        - "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."
(Philemon 25)
        - "...through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen."  (Heb.13:21)
        - "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ."  (James
1:1)
        - "who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus
Christ..."  (I Pet.1:2)
        - "to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:  Grace and peace be
yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord."  (2
Pet.1:1,2)
        - "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.  To him be glory both now and forever!  Amen."  (2 Pet.3:18)
        - "...And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus
Christ."  (I John 1:3)
        - "Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus
Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love."  (2 John 3)
        - "To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father
and kept by Jesus Christ..."  (Jude 1)
        - "Keep yourselves  in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life."  (Jude 21)
        - "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with God's people.  Amen."
 (Rev.22:21)

        ANSWER #5:  Study of Philippians 2:6-8: We read that Jesus, ‘being
in very nature (morphae) God...made himself nothing, taking the very nature
(morphae) of a servant, being made in human likeness.'" Notice how the
eternal God took upon Himself the very nature of a servant in becoming a
man.

        ANSWER #6:  When did Jesus begin to exist?:
        - He was before John the Baptist (the prophet Yahyah) even though
he was born 3 months after him. "This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A
man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me" (John
1:29,30).   He is both before and after John; both God and man!
        - He was before David who lived about 1000 BC.  Jesus was born in
the lineage of King David, but he is called, "I am the root and the
offspring of David" (Revelation 22:16) because he existed before Him.  He
is both before and after David; both God and man!
        - He was before Abraham who lived about 2000 BC.  Jesus said,
"before Abraham was born I AM." (John 8:58).  "I AM" = "Jahwah." He is both
before and after Abraham; both God and man!
        - He was before the world began.   Jesus said,"And now Father,
glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world
began." (John 17:5).  He is both God and man!

4.        QUESTION #4:  WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR JESUS TO BE BORN

WITHOUT A HUMAN FATHER?     
       Jesus was born of Mary so that he could be truly human, "bone of
our bone and flesh of our flesh."  It was necessary for him to be born
without a human father in order to reveal his divine origin - to show he is
from heaven; the eternal Word of God made flesh (Jn.1:13-14).
        (I Cor.15:47) - "The first man was of the dust of the earth, the
second man from heaven."
        (John 3:13,31) - "...the one who came from heaven....The one who
comes from above..."
        (John 6:33,38) - "...He who comes down from heaven....For I have
come down from heaven..."
        (John 6:51) - "I am the living bread that came down from heaven."
        (John 8:23,42) - "...I am from above...for I came from God."  
        [also many times Jesus said his heavenly "Father" had sent him]

5.  QUESTION #5:   ISNT IT WRONG FOR US TO SING OR LAUGH IN

OUR WORSHIP OF ALLAH?   ISN'T ALLAH FAR ABOVE SUCH

HUMAN EMOTIONS AS LAUGHTER, JOY GRIEF OR LOVE?  
        More and more I am impressed with the truth of God's emotional make
up.  I have started collecting verses that talk about His grief, envy,
jealousy, wrath, hate, rejoicing, singing, laughing, pleasure, delight,
compassion and love.  God has all these emotions, and we have them because
we were created in His image.  God is not like a human being; rather humans
are like God!  We sing, laugh, cry, get angry, grieve and rejoice because
God does!
        grief - Eph.4:30 & Gen.6:6;
        envy - James 4:5
        jealousy - Ex.20:5; 
        wrath - Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6
        hatred - Isaiah 61:8;  Malachi 2:16
        rejoicing - Zeph. 3:17 & Is.62:5;
        singing - Zeph. 3:17
        laughter - Psalm 2:4;
        pleasure - Isaiah 42:21; Matt. 3:17; Psalm 51:18
        delight - Psalm 35:27; 147:11; Zeph.3:17;
        compassion - Hosea 11:8; 2 Corinthians 1:3;
                        love - 1 John 4:7,8

6.   QUESTION #6:   HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE AN

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD?
        God is so great (Allah-0-Akbar) and His love is so complete, that
He enables us to have a relationship with him more intimate than any human
relationship!  Just look at what God's Word says:
        - "This is what the high and lofty One says, He who lives forever,
‘I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and
lowly in spirit.'" (Isaiah 57:15)
        - "We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also
may have fellowship with us.  And our fellowship is with the Father and
with his son, Jesus Christ." (I John 1:3)
        - "this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." (John 17:3)
        - "For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to
fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.  And by him we cry, ‘Abba,
Father.'  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's
children." (Rom.8:15,16)
        - "For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's
spirit within him?  In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except
the Spirit of God.  We have not received the Spirit of the world but the
Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given
us." (I Cor.2:11,12)