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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

However, there is one other matter needing to be
known and reflected upon regarding the four Gospels
currently used by our Christian brothers:
What you will be reading in this book is not deductions
or claims made by Muslims. On the contrary, what the book
says is all based on Christians’ own sources.
Material concerning the history of Christianity that has pre-
viously been set out in detail in our book Jesus (pbuh) Is Not the
Son of God, But a Prophet of God is merely set out here under brief
headings as a reminder:

The Spread of Christianity and

the Origin of the Belief in the Trinity
according to Christian sources

- When we look at the earliest Christian documents and commu-
nities we see that Jesus (pbuh) taught nothing different to the
Prophet Moses (pbuh) or the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the
subject of the existence and oneness of God.
- After Jesus, Christianity was spread by the disciples. They
preached in places where monotheistic beliefs prevailed, particularly
the Middle East, Jerusalem, Antioch and Urfa [Edessa]. Since these re-
gions are those where prophets appeared, they turned to Christianity
very quickly since the inhabitants were already familiar with
monotheistic belief.
- The belief in the Trinity, which did not exist before, finally ap-

peared long after Jesus as Christianity spread to regions where Greco-
Roman paganism predominated.
- The reason is that the Christians who had converted from pa-

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