Trinity?

[muhtesem insan]

My understanding of Islam is that their idea of the "Holy Spirit" is the angel Gabriel. Is this correct?

The Christian idea of the "Holy Spirit" is that it's a part of God that inhabits the hearts of all Christians who have accepted Jesus. Seriously.

There's no real equilavent of Holy Spirit in Islam. There are some refferences to "The Spirit" and it is widely believed -by scholars- this refer to Gabriel but there's no consensus. For an ordinary muslim Gabriel is the messenger angel. His main duty to deliver Allah's messages to prophets.

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You need to study the scriptures not just read them if you want to have a understanding of them.

How can theology be a valid subject without first assuming God's existence?

Literature???

[Edwardo Piet]

Literature???

Could you please elaborate?

[muhtesem insan]

Literature???

Could you please elaborate?

Religion is in our life for thousands of years and it affected our culture especially in literature, knowing theology would help understand literature works better.

[Edwardo Piet]

Theo-logy = The study of God. My point is, how can you study God without assuming that he exists first?

[muhtesem insan]

Theo-logy = The study of God. My point is, how can you study God without assuming that he exists first?

theology is not limited to study of God. It also works on religions, religous tradition...etc. All research you do about a religion is part of theology.

[Edwardo Piet]

I was referring to the "study of god" part.

Hence why I said:

How can theology be a valid subject without first assuming God's existence?

and

Theo-logy = The study of God.

(emphasises added)

Today it may not be limited to the study of God, but that is the original etymological meaning, which is what I was referring to, hence why my original question was relevant. ("Theo" is from "Theos" which means "god", and "logy" I believe is from "Logos" which means "logic", the two together meaning "study of god").

[muhtesem insan]

with your reasoning we can not study without first assuming soul's existence.
Psycho - logy = "study of the soul"

[Edwardo Piet]

It depends on which definitions we are using.

[thesummerqueen]

It depends on which definitions we are using.

Are we going to get into another Existentialist debate?

[Edwardo Piet]

No. I don't make up my own definitions, I just accept the fact that the same word can have multiple definitions (for example, "light" can mean the opposite of "heavy" or the opposite of "darkness"), there's a difference.

When that fails to be recognized the Equivocation Fallacy can step in.