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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya
he Christian religion that was born among
Jews living in the Holy Land was the result of
sincere Jews living by the law of the Prophet
Moses (pbuh) choosing to follow Jesus. The distinguishing feature
of the Jews who followed Jesus is that they believed in God as the
one and only god.
However, this monotheistic belief changed after the ascension
of Jesus and the spread of Christianity into pagan lands. Jesus be-
gan being regarded as divine due to the belief in the Trinity that was
subsequently made part of Christianity (surely God is beyond that).
Christians espousing that superstitious belief claimed that
Almighty God took human form and incarnated himself in Jesus,
and disseminated that belief.
Belief in the Trinity – surely God is beyond that – is used in the
sense of a belief in a tripartite God – "Father, Son and Holy Ghost."
Led and supported by the Roman Emperor Constantine of the time,
various people who wished to modify Christian belief pointed to
the references to "the son of God" that appear in the Torah and the
Gospel as evidence. They claimed that Jesus was quite literally the
son of God and ascribed divine status to him. However, the refer-
ences to "the son of God" in the Torah and the Gospel are a
metaphorical expression of the fact that all sincere believers are
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