The Christians Are Polytheists

Thank you for that well worded and intelligent argument you put down and I see you've done plenty of reading on this subject. I would like to start off by saying sorry for misunderstanding your comment on quoting from the Bible to prove my point, and I think I understand it better now. I enjoyed reading the Hadith that you put down, but once again it doesn't have much validity in this argument considering it was written hundreds of years after the time of Jesus Christ. Why should Allah take a Trinitarian state and what's the wisdom behind it? Well that's a great question Julia and the best answer to this would be because he wanted to. God didn't have to take upon himself a Trinity, but he decided to do it in order to bring glory to his name. We can never really know God's great standard of wisdom and trying to figure it out would be a waste of time. I do have one opinion though on why he took this state on himself. The simple answer is because it helps us humans appreciate and understand God much more. Having 3 distinct persons in his unity allows for us to be able to see him in 3 different ways. On one hand we see God the Son who loved us so much that he was willing to shed his blood and die on that wretched cross for us. We also see God the Father show love by sending his only begotten Son to ransom us back to him. If you know anything about the relationship between a Father and Son, you'll realize that it's one thing to lay down your own life for your children, but it's just as hard, if not harder to send your only son to his death. This is the Love of God and it truly represents the Trinity. I see that you brought up Mathew 21:11, but lets remember not to take this out of context. Just before and after the verse we see the Children singing praise and worship songs to him by screaming "Hosanna to the Son of David! Glory to God in the Highest!" The Temple authorities rightfully saw this as worship and confronted Jesus with the "blasphemy" the children were saying. Jesus then told them that if these little kids didn't praise him as the Holy One then the very rocks would cry out proclaiming his Majesty. We also need to realize that this is what the crowd was saying. This goes hand in hand with what the crowd said earlier when they thought that Jesus was a mere prophet. Peter then chimed in saying this "You are the Christ and the Son of the Living God." Jesus blessed Peter for this answer and gave him the promise of the keys of Heaven. I also see that you brought up the Ebionites and I would like to discuss them for a little bit. Strangely enough, the first few places we actually see mention of the Ebionites is from the Church Fathers appointed by the Blessed Apostles. The Church Fathers, mostly Iraneaus and Justin Martyr, condemned them in their writings as early gnostic sects that had taken on heretical teachings and left the original Faith. According to new historical evidence, we are seeing that the Ebionites may not have been as old as we once thought and are now seen to have sprung up after the Fall of Jerusalem where they took on several Christians beliefs, but refused to join the mainstream Christians and instead formed several smaller cults that moved always from Israel and eventually settled in North Western Arabia. It is from here that most scholars believe Muhammed got his beliefs and he may well have seen them as Christians when they historically were not. The early Apostles themselves were confronting many of these false gnostic sects in their days and even mention some of them by saying that they "deny Jesus is Lord" and deny that "Jesus has come in the flesh." Historical and archeological evidence seems to confirm that from the earliest days of Christianity that there was the main stream Christians beliefs that were established by the Apostles and preserved by Church Fathers, and there were gnostic beliefs that opposed them. The Ebionites were one of these. I also agree that we should return to the teachings of the early Church Fathers and here are a couple of them. Ignatius of Antioch- "For our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary according to God's plan." Ignatius- "When God appeared in Human for to give us Eternal Life." - "For our God Jesus Christ is more visible now that he's in the Father." Polycarb( Disciple of John)- "Who will yet believe in our Lord and God Jesus Christ and his Father." Epistle of Barnabas( Written 70-130)- "For he is Lord of the whole world that he submitted to humans." Justin Martyr- "And that Christ being Lord and God the Son." These are just a couple and there are hundreds more from the disciples of Peter, Paul, John, and Andrew. I'll put down some Bible verses proving the Trinity in the comments if you'd like. Thanks Julia and back to you.