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Besides, we all -Muslims and Christians- believe that
God is Omnipresent that He fills and encompasses every
space and particle . Is it conceivable that all the three persons
of the Deity at the same time and separately encompass the
universe, or is it only one of them at the time? To say, “the
Deity does this” would be no answer at all. For Deity is not
God, but the state of being God, and therefore a quality.

Godhead is the quality of one God; it is not susceptible
of plurality or of diminution. There are no godheads except
one Godhead, which is the attribute of one God alone.

Then we are told that each person of the trinity has some
particular attributes, which are not proper to the other two.
Moreover, these attributes indicate -according to human
reasoning and language- priority and posteriority among
them. The Father always holds the first rank, and is prior to
the Son. The Holy Ghost is not only posterior as the third in
the order of counting but also inferior to those from whom
he precedes. Would it not be considered a sin of heresy if
the names of the three persons were conversely repeated?
Will not the signing of the cross upon the countenance or
over the elements of the Eucharist be considered impious
by the Churches if the formula were reversed thus “In the
name of the Holy Ghost, and of the Son, and of the Father”?
For if they are equal and coeval, the order of precedence
need not be so scrupulously observed. The fact is that the
Popes and the General Councils have always condemned
the Sabelian doctrine which maintained that God is one but
that He manifested Himself as the Father or as the Son or as
the Holy Spirit, being always one and the same person. Of
course, the religion of Islam does not endorse or sanction
the Sabelian views. God manifested His Jamal or beauty in
Christ, His jelal or glory and majesty in Muhammad(pbuh),
and His wisdom in Solomon(pbuh), and so on in many other
objects of Nature, but none of those prophetsis any more
God than the vast ocean or the majestic sky.