Page 55 - Christians Must Heed Jesus

Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

● Just about everyone held a different opinion on the subject.

That is why everyone accused everyone else of error, heresy and apos-
tasy. Even people who shared the same belief in the Trinity held dif-
ferent opinions regarding it.

The Church’s final decree regarding
the Trinity: "The Trinity is not a matter for

reason and logic; there is no need for
you to reflect on and understand it"

● The subject of the Trinity was constantly reshaped by a succes-
sion of councils, ongoing study and new decrees. Various passages in
the Gospel were re-interpreted; passages that had one been rejected
were suddenly declared to be trustworthy and added to the Gospel,
while others were removed.
● In this extraordinarily contradictory environment, the Church
tried to shape itself in the light of new suggestions and objections in
order not to have to give way on the doctrine of the Trinity.
● The arguments and discrepancies regarding the Trinity re-
main unresolved to this day. The final decree on the subject was is-
sued by the Council of Florence in 1443. The council did not manage

to eliminate the contradictions and inconsistencies on the subject,
however, and the arguments persisted for a long time thereafter.
● The First Vatican Council, summoned by the Papacy in 1868-
1870 with the aim of putting an end to these endless disputes, [fully
1,870 years after Jesus] decreed that the Trinity is not a matter for rea-

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