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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to
him and said, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
(Matthew, 8:18-19)

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sit-
ting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and
Matthew got up and followed him. (Matthew, 9:9)

The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such
learning without having studied?" Jesus answered, "My teach-
ing is not my own. It comes from Him Who sent me. If any-
one chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my
teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. He
who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but

he who works for the honor of the One [God] Who sent him is
a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. (John, 7:15-18)

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to
my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know
the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John, 8:31-32)

[Jesus:] "Don't believe me unless I carry out my God's work.
But if I do it... believe the works..." (John, 10:37-38)

Then Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does
not believe in me only, but in the One [God] Who sent me...

I have come into the world as a light [for the guidance of the
world], so that no one who believes in me should stay in dark-
ness. "As for the person who hears my words but does not
keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the
world, but to save it. There is a Judge [God] for the one who
rejects me and does not accept my words..." (John, 12:44-48)

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