Apologetics and Evidence

From the perspective of a Muslim, God is “one” in the strictest sense. Muslims famously teach and claim that “ There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet .” Anything in addition to Allah in this sense is to commit the greatest of all crimes in Islam, which is called  shirk . Shirk is understood this way by Muslims because of passages such as Sura 4:48, which reads, “Surely  Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him , and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.” [1]  In this passage then, readers can conclude that the definition of shirk is anything associated with Allah, this is what makes it the greatest sin of all.   On the contrary, in Christianity, God is three persons in one being. In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus tells His Disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all ...