Modalism or Moodalism!
By Jalal Abualrub (www.islamlife.com)
Sorry, one more amazing Christian terminology that needs volumes to explain, after which one may still surely understand none of it!
Modalism: A cluster of Trinitarian heresies of the second and third centuries claiming that there is only one person in God, but that this one person manifests himself in three different ways or modes, e.g., as creator (Father), redeemer (Son), and sanctifier (Holy Spirit); (http://www.catholicculture.org/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=34921)
Moodalism: A cluster of Trinitarian heresies invented in the 4th century claiming that God is one in three and three in one; One God unit manifested in three different personalities, three different roles, three different names, three different experiences: the Father, the son and the Holy Ghost; all for one and one for all, depending on the mood of the Christian who is explaining Trinity that is (Jalal Abualrub).
Mockerism: Allah said, “The son of Adam tells a lie against me though he has no right to do so, and he abuses Me though he has no right to do so. As for his telling a lie against Me, he claims that I cannot recreate him as I created him before; as for his abusing Me, it is his statement that I have offspring. No! Glorified be Me! I Am far from taking a wife or offspring.” (Bukhari)
Where did we go from God being the One and Only to this unexplainable set of terms and creeds that have absolutely no basis in any Scripture; even Hinduism can be simpler. At least, Hindus do not claim their religion is Monotheistic, not yet at least. To Muslims and most Jews, both Modalism and Trinitarianism involve committing major aggression against the Creator of everything by calling to, believing in and practicing Shirk that is clear polytheism.
Read what Shamoun wrote on Modalism. But, first remember this statement by Shamoun, “Jesus has the same divine name, authority, essence, nature, characteristics, etc., that the Father and the Holy Spirit have.” Jesus is also Yahweh, according to Shamoun.
So, Jesus the son is also God the Father is also the Holy Ghost, who is also Jesus the Son and God the Father, who is also Jesus the son and the Holy Ghost. And indeed, I am not going to ask if Jesus the human was created in the Holy Ghost and the Father too, since they are one and the same, thus implying that all three of them died and left the world hanging for three days, or is it one and a half days?
But now, I need help! I need the reader to try and figure out how Shamoun is not a Modalist. After that, everyone should thank Allah that He saved them from this utter nonsense.
Sam Shamoun wrote: “Christians do not believe … that God is the Messiah since this implies that Jesus is the entire Godhead, which would be modalism.”
Here we go again! Jesus is the Messiah; Jesus is God (according to Christians); Jesus is the Father (i.e., Yahweh, according to Shamoun); but the Messiah is not God. If calling the Messiah God may imply that he is the entire Godhead, then, the same must be said about calling Jesus God, Yahweh and/or the Father, since this may imply that Jesus is the entire Godhead, whatever ‘Godhead’ means, or at least we cut Trinity down to Two-ity by ignoring the Holy Ghost, again.
You see (and if you don’t see, don’t worry because I don’t see it either): God is one in three persons or manifestations, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, who share things perfectly and act as one since they are one, but have three different personalities and act as three, even though they are one. Or are they one or three? One of them died while the other two were nowhere to help, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me)” (Mark 15:34)? And to think we were promised a prefect relationship between these three.
Modalism seems to be somewhat more coherent than true Trinitarianism. At least here we have one person that manifests himself in three different ways, which reminds me of that cartoon I used to watch when I was young where the character got scared and escaped in three different directions at once. That true Trinity stuff is incomprehensible any way you look at it. There is more, of course…
Shamoun continues, by saying, “The correct and biblical statement is that Jesus is God, since this suggests that although Jesus is fully God by nature he is not the only Person who shares the essence of Deity perfectly. The Bible also teaches that both the Father and the Holy Spirit are fully God.”
This, Shamoun’s personal opinion, is of course not correct. The Bible teaches no such thing he falsely claimed, we have not heard or seen evidence to support these claimed facts. The Father, the son and the Holy Ghost can only share things perfectly if they are one and the same, in which case they must be one, not three. If they share things perfectly, when one of them dies, the other two must die as well. Otherwise, they share nothing.
Shamoun seems to call the son the father also, but we are waiting for his declaration about the Holy Ghost too that he is the father and the son too. If Jesus the son is God, as Shamoun claims, and God is the Father, according to the NT, then the son is the Father, who is also the Holy Ghost, who is also the Father and the son. But, Jesus is the Messiah, I testify to that, and therefore, and I testify not to that, the Father is the Messiah, and the Holy Ghost is also the Messiah. This is one weird family. This is why Muslims will not relent in rejecting this deep and utter falsehood. This is total and complete mockery of Allah, Creator of everything.
I seek refuge with Allah from this utter disbelief and thank Him dearly that he allowed me to live until I witnessed the Vatican admit that now, there are more Muslims than there are Catholics (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343336,00.html).
Indeed, this is where we can truly use the word manifestation as it pertains to the Prophet’s miraculous prophecy, “This matter (Islam) shall spread to wherever the night and the day reach (the entire earth). Allah will not leave a house made of Madar (brick; mud) or Wabar (tent) but will enter this religion into it, adding strength to the strong and bringing humiliation to the disgraced: might with which Allah elevates Islam, and disgrace with which Allah humiliates disbelief.” (Silsilat al-A`hadeeth as-Sahihah, by Imam al-Albani)
Jalal Abualrub
www.islamlife.com
