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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

How Jesus (pbuh) said that he worked mira-
cles by God's leave

God is of course the sole Ruler. And God, the Lord of All, is also
the Lord of Jesus whom He sent as a prophet. Jesus of course knows

that everything he does, he does by our Lord's leave. A great many
passages in the Gospel show that Jesus spoke in the awareness of that,
that he praised God and called people to Him.
... And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. (Luke, 5:17)
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under His power, and that
he had come from God and was returning to God; (John, 13:3)

Some Christians may interpret these statements from the Gospel
as follows: "Jesus had both divine and human characteristics. It is
therefore normal for him to have exhibited human ones." This inter-
pretation perfectly illustrates the logical collapse at the root of the be-
lief in the Trinity. How can an entity with human characteristics, cre-
ated with the weaknesses demanded by the life of this world be di-

vine? How can such an idea be acceptable to people who claim to love
God? God is Almighty, He Who creates the deficiencies in this world
as a test, although He Himself is unfettered by any deficiencies. As we
have stressed many times and will be looking at in later sections of this
book, the problem is one of a failure to understand the might of God
and to properly appreciate Him.
All statements based on the Gospel clearly show that Jesus is a
loyal and obedient servant of God and a human being. These state-
ments cited in the Gospel have gradually been filtered through the il-
logicality of the Trinity, and attempts have been made to make the
words of the Gospel compatible with Trinitarian doctrine through con-
fusing interpretations. The fact is, however, that when someone who
has not been exposed to this deceptive indoctrination looks at the

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