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Brief Comments on Muslims, Modalism, the Trinity and Spurious Ascription

This video was inspired by a clip I saw of Ahmed Hamed criticizing the Trinity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNOd3PCexI Mr. Hamed misrepresents the Trinity (confusing it with Modalism, AKA Sabellianism), and gives what obviously seems to be a fictional account about some "Father" (a Catholic priest?) showing him where in the Catechism it is allegedly stated that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not three Persons, but rather one Person. It is demonstrated that Mr. Hamed was merely copying a claim made by Ahmed Deedat more than twenty years earlier. SOURCES: Wikipedia's entry on Modalism (AKA Sabellianism): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabellianism The 1637 edition of the Book of Common Prayer can be found here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Lc8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=11 The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church can be found here: http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm Towards the end I quote Michael Cook: "Anyone who finds implausible the idea that spurious ascription was rife among the old Muslim scholars may reflect on the dimensions of spurious originality among modern ones." [Michael Cook, "Early Muslim Dogma: A Source Critical Study," (Cambridge, 1981) p. 202]

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