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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

stains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to
himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. So, whether we live or
die, we belong to the Lord. (Romans 14:6-8)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,
not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the
Lord as a reward... (Colossians 3:23-24)

How Jesus (pbuh) encouraged people to

praise and laud God alone

Jesus always told those around him that only our Lord God was
to be praised and lauded, and encouraged them to praise and laud
Him. Jesus does not refer to himself in these passages from the Gospel.
Such an interpretation appears nowhere in these passages. Jesus says
that the knowledge he possesses belongs, not to himself but to God,
and he encourages people to turn directly to our Lord God.

The Jews there were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learn-
ing without having been taught?"Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my
own. It comes from the One Who sent me. Anyone who chooses to do the

Like everyone else, Jesus (pbuh) is a servant of God. The Gospel contains
many passages to the effect that Jesus is a human being and that he fulfilled
the duties of a servant. These passages from the Gospel therefore invalidate
the idea of divinity ascribed to Jesus (surely God is beyond that).

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