YOUR GOD WAS ABSENT FROM HEAVEN.....

Couple of years ago (during one casual dinner in Bangsar Kuala Lumpur) my business colleague politely said: “Jesus Christ is regarded by Christians as God in the concept of Trinity. It meant that your God was absent from heaven for thirty-three (33) years....”

I was taken by surprise by such frank and challenging statement connected with Allah’s Omnipotent, Omniscience and Omnipresence in Trinitarian. Apparently from our conversation, my gentleman friend was quite well-versed with the story about the birth of Isa ibnu Maryam as great Prophet.

Speaking within I said (to myself): “If I could not explain what I believe, it would tantamount to denying my faith." I was in a kind of an emergency situation.

Just like the Emergency Number 999, Jeremiah 33:3 rang in my mind which spoke silently of God’s invitation and promise to believers. It said: “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.”

At that point of time I scantly recalled the explanation made by an evangelist whom I met many years ago. Below is brief outline on what I remembered and used in explaining the issue. 

 

(1)   By His Omnipotent, Omniscience, and Omnipresence, the great “I AM” is neither restricted by His Name nor by “What-How-Why-Where-When-He-Want-to-be” through His Holy Spirit (or Power), and through all things He had created universally.

(2)   Albeit similar in terms of languages and cultures, human understandings of God are always personal, individual and limited, and being constrained by time and space. Christianity is not a religion because it is about personal relationship between believers and God (or Allah) through Jesus Christ (or Isa al-Messiah).

(3)   When one believes that Jesus Christ (Isa al-Messiah) is the Word of God (or Kalimatullah) born of Virgin Mary by the Spirit (power) of God, it not illogical for one to acknowledge and accept that God did not leave heaven during the thirty-three years. It was His Word (Kalimatullah) that went forth out of heaven (through angel Gabriel) and born as Jesus Christ.

(4)  The fact God was still in heaven during the thirty-three (33) years can be explained or illustrated technologically in terms of modern telecommunication system. For example, in virtual education system, a professor need not leave the lecture hall.

Through right internet connection the image, voices and movements of the professor could be seen and heard instantaneously by students who were physically thousands of kilometres away at different locations in the world.

In considering Allah’s majestic infinity it is admitted the 
technological illustration above may be considered 
inappropriate and surely insufficient.

Nevertheless, the illustration was sufficiently comprehensive and appreciated by my friend although he was a skeptic about Trinity.