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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

"son of God" has been distorted from its true meaning and how it is de-
liberately used with a meaning unique to Jesus. Various passages from
the Gospel referring to a son or children of God read as follows:
[Jesus:] "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them with-
out expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and
you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrate-
ful and wicked." (Luke 6: 35)
And, I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6: 18)

Jesus is referred to as the "Son of Man" 80 times in holy scriptures.
While Christians who support the Trinity try to explain this away in
various ways, the term "son of man," barnasha in Aramaic, the mother
tongue of Jesus, is a special one meaning "human." Therefore, the term
"son of man" is the equivalent of saying "human" in that language.

(Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bayrakdar, The Birth of a Christian Dogma, the Trinity,
Ankara School Press, September 2007, p. 168)

The term of address "Father" in the Gospel is
also metaphorical and calls on all mankind

As well as the word "son," the term "Father" also appears in the

Gospel. The reference to "Father" here expresses protection, love and
affection. It refers to people who bear the spirit of God, who are told
of paradise and who are spiritually close to Him. It is not used in the
literal sense, of course. Yet people who believe in the Trinity adopt the
literal meaning of a word whose true sense is so clear in the Gospel
and suggest that it means the biological father of Jesus in those pas-
sages referring to the prophet. This is blatantly misleading and a total
distortion of a subject whose meaning is actually so very clear.
Some of the passages in the Gospel in which the term "Father" is

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