6:4 Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God. The LORD is one.
The Bible starts with a God who is one and yet a plurality of persons, showing that the doctrine of the Trinity is not a later addition.
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The Bible presents the oneness of God in a way that supports the doctrine of the Trinity by using a ‘composite’ unity that carries both the idea of the oneness of God who is at the same time a unity of persons.
Muslims often accuse Christians of saying that they believe in three gods. Christians deny such claims, emphasising that they hold to the Bible, which teaches there is only one God, existent in three persons (hypostases), Father, Son and Holy Spirit who share the same divine nature (ousia).
The trinity is the foundational teaching of the Bible that God is one God, who has eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Sprit who each are fully God. This idea is denied by the Quran, which states that God is an indivisible unity, who can have no partners. The Trinity, while mysterious, is simple to define and a beautiful truth we can confidently hold to and reference in reaching out to others.
Christians and Muslims both claim to love Jesus, but the Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus of the Qur’an are very different. Who is the Jesus of the Qur’an and how is he different from the Jesus of Scripture?
Q25: Do Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe that there is only “one” true God? (Monotheism or Vahdet-i Vujûd)
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6:5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.