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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

say According to Matthew, selections were made based on the dif-
ferences, and extra and missing passages in the previously printed
manuscripts. It is therefore impossible to be sure which terms should
be regarded as true and valid.
● Various sentences in the final part of the Gospel According
to Mark had to be removed in order for the Gospel to be agreed at
the Council of Nicaea because those expressions were diametrically
opposed to the doctrine of the Trinity.
● Various passages were taken from the works of the other au-
thors of the Gospels and a concluding paragraph to the Gospel Ac-
cording to Mark was prepared on that basis.
● All passages describing Jesus as the Messiah of the Jews were
removed from the Gospel According to John. This was replaced with
a superhuman figure of Jesus.
(Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bayrakdar, The Trinity, a Christian Dogma, Ankara
School Publications, September 2007, p. 163)

The text of the Gospel According to John is accepted to
have been written in 110 AD; it is generally considered to be
the oldest of the canonical Gospel. This means that the disci-
ple John must have lived for at least 140-150 years, which is
highly unlikely. In addition, the fact that the text of John con-
tains information from much later times also casts doubt on
whether the disciple John was really the author of the
Gospel.
The other Gospels emphasized that Jesus is the
Messiah of the Jews, is descended from the line of the
Prophet David (pbuh) and will liberate Israel. However, all
Judaic concepts that would displease Hellenic Christians
were removed from the Gospel According to John. The in-

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