Originally posted by siam
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As to the Shema and Tawheed, Jesus did not break the Shema, but the Shema is not the Tawheed, and there is nothing that indicates that he assented to the Tawheed. Furthermore, it was not until followers of Jesus started claiming that Jesus was divine that the Jews started to interpret the Shema in a way that excludes a multi-personal understanding of God. Before that the issue hadn't even been brought up before, and the Shema was mostly seen as a rejection of other beings as God, not as a rejection of the possibility that there could be multiple Persons within the one Being of God. The Shema, if read simply as it is, without importing any preconceived notions of God's unipersonality from Judaism or Islam into it, does not preclude a Trinitarian understanding of God.
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