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Adnan Oktar
                                       Harun Yahya




                 Gospel texts established
             through "majority vote" in the

                              councils

                 ● The Trinity was first officially made part of Christianity
             by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. This council took place
             with the participation of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
                 The council was held for the following reasons:
                 ❁ The Roman Empire’s expansion into lands where
             Christianity had spread.

                 ❁ Tensions had arisen between pagans and Christians be-
             cause of that expansion and the Empire faced the threat of being di-
             vided into two.
                 ❁ The idea that a new belief, a synthesis between the old pagan
             faith and the new Christianity, was needed if the Empire was not to be
             divided in two, and for preparatory work to be done on this.
                 ● As we have seen, it was assumed that conflict in pagan lands
             could only be avoided if Christianity were changed. This council that
             met in Nicaea decided that the solution to internal conflict was for the
             idea of the Trinity to be added to the Gospel. That decision was du-
             ly implemented.
                            ● The four Gospels espousing the idea of the Trinity
                                       were declared to be completely reliable at
                                         the council.

                                               ●  Apart from a few preserved
                                                handwritten manuscripts, other
                                                 gospels espousing strictly
                                                     monotheistic belief were de-
                                                     nounced as "heretical" and
                                                     burned.
                                                         ● Those people who es-




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