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Why do Judaism and Islam reject the Trinity, according to Martin Palmer?

Answered from Archive: Trinity · In Our Time · 2026-10-08

Martin Palmer says Islam is absolute on the point: a Quranic verse states that those who believe in the Trinity are wrong and that God has no son, and it is among the few texts inscribed on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Yet he finds near parallels in both faiths, from the Jewish idea of a Torah and a feminine Wisdom existing before creation to the Sufi sense of God's love reaching the believer.

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