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[quote=Anonymous]PP--I applaud your diligence in further investigating this rather obscure group of early Christians.  They are of interest in their own right in the context of the various early theological struggles of nascent Christianity.

But I have to say, I have really, really missed what possible relevance the Ebionites have to Islam's lack of belief in the trinity.  There is no evidence this group existed in 7th century western Arabia.  Nestorians did exist, and Mohammed was said to have been influenced by a Nestorian monk, whose name I recall as Bahira.  (Don't hold me to this--am not as diligent as you in looking this stuff all up for purposes of this thread).  Nestorians emphasized the human nature of Christ, as does Islam, with the difference that Nestorian theology had some convoluted link to Christ's divinity and Islam doesn't.

I also don't get why the beliefs of one Christian convert to Islam, who appears to have an extremely small sphere of influence, should inform anyone's thinking on the merits of the trinity, Islam's lack of belief thereof, and the essential truth or not of Islam. I don't see why what this mysterious Dirks thinks or not matters at all.

Islam cannot accept the trinity because if the prophet Jesus is also God come to earth, a later prophet, eg Mohammed, is redundant.[/quote]

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