Trinitarian Monotheism?

[FredVB]

Monotheism has a way of often changing when considering the background behind how much things shifted.
When you consider the ways that Monotheism developed in the Hebrew worldview, it is interesting to consider the ways that the concept evolved over time - especially if examining the Exodus Account of how God addressed the other gods/goddesses and arose to demolish the Egyptian gods/goddesses in order to prove who the real God is.

Yahweh did say things addressing what peoples were calling gods, showing them to be no more than human inventions, that had no abilities. In Egypt, with demanding for his people to be let go, he showed that it was he alone that is sovereign over all the cosmos. The gods that those people of Egypt believed in did not have the control of the spheres that were claimed for them that Yahweh showed.

"To whom will you liken me, or to whom will I be equal?" says the Holy One. "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things." Isaiah 40:25-26.

 

[FredVB]

When other gods are mentioned or addressed in the Bible, who or what are they? There is never, ever, any praise for such others. Men in place of judgment over others were once mentioned as gods to them, and Moses was said to be as god to Pharaoh, but they are never to be considered as real gods. Consider further Isaiah 42:8,
"I am Yahweh, that is my name, and my glory I will not give to another, nor my praise to carved images." That is it, the gods otherwise are images of humanity's making. Glory is given to no other. This is a real good basis for seeing the Trinity of God. The glory is given to Christ, who had said, "I and my Father are one." So as glory is for absolutely no other, Christ is indeed the same being with the Father together, Yahweh God. And the Spirit of God is included with them, so as the Spirit is called God the Spirit is in unity with them as God, the one Supreme Being.

Isaiah 43:10-13,
"You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no god formed, nor shall there be after me. I, even I, am Yahweh, and besides me there is no savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you, therefore you are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "that I am God. Indeed before the day was, I am he, and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand; I work, and who will reverse it?"

 

[Keachian]

The Quran must always be done in context...

Isn't the belief that the Qu'ran is eternally existent a bit problematic to studying it within its historical context and keeping with historical expressions of Islam, or is it just one sect that has the belief in the pre-existence?

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Isn't the belief that the Qu'ran is eternally existent a bit problematic to studying it within its historical context and keeping with historical expressions of Islam, or is it just one sect that has the belief in the pre-existence?

I'm pretty sure that believe is standard Islamic kalam.