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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

son and logic, but a mystery and an article of faith. (Const. "De fide,
cath", IV)
● To put it another way, the insoluble dilemma of the Trinity was
simply declared by the Church to be a "mystery," in order to eliminate
opponents and their justified objections as required by logic, reason
and the genuine verses of the Gospel. The message being sent out, in
other words, was "There is no need for you to think about this any-
more!"
This subject will be considered in greater detail in the pages that
follow.

The "additions and removals"

officially carried out by the Church,
to the four Gospels while asserting their

unchanging nature

● The oldest handwritten copies of the holy texts regarded as
canonical date back to the Third Century. In other words, these were

written three hundred years after Jesus. In fact, there are differences
in the texts and expressions in all the sacred texts.
● Indeed, the texts refer to events and people from long af-
ter the earliest dates these are considered to have been written.
● The oldest copy of the Gospel According to John dates
back to approximately 200 AD, and there are more than 10,000
different texts of that particular gospel alone. The number of
major differences among these 10,000 different copies is
around 200,000.
● In order to avoid confusion, footnotes are often pro-
vided for the various gospels. These contain the following
expression "According to other ancient authorities, this
word or sentence should not appear" or "other ancient

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