Page 53 - Christians Must Heed Jesus

Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

teaching, in the sacred teachings of Christianity – or any other
true religion. Christians themselves admit this.

● Belief in the Trinity was fabricated and made part of Chris-
tianity in gradual stages. These can be summarized as follows:
❁ The idea of the divinity of Jesus was agreed at the Council of
Nicaea in 325,
❁ Claims regarding the divinity of the Holy Ghost were accepted
at the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and
❁ The idea that Jesus had two natures, one human and one di-
vine, was agreed at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
● Although the belief in the Trinity assumed a specific form at the
First Council of Constantinople in 381, there was still no agreement re-
garding the elements of the Trinity and the relationship between them.
● Apart from a reference in the Gospel According to Matthew to
baptism "in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit," no sacred
text contains a single reference in which the Holy Spirit is men-
tioned together with the Father and Son, the first two elements of
the Trinity.
● Indeed, the Gospel contains no references or indications
regarding the divinity of the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, vari-

ous Christian sources state that the term refers to the angel
Gabriel, as also stated in the Koran.
● The term "baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit" was added to Matthew 28:18-20 at the end
of the Fourth Century in order to establish compatibility with the idea
of the Trinity.
● The doctrine of the Trinity, which was made official in the
Fourth Century, was added to the text written in the First Century.
In this way, this text was made compatible with the order of the
council. With these subsequent additions, a text which origi-
nally espoused monotheism, was turned into one pointing to
the doctrine of the Trinity.

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