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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya
The Gospel Sent Down to Confirm
the Torah Should Also Confirm
Monotheistic Faith
A Christian who espouses the Trinity may at first reject the above
statements based on historical documentation and interpretations of
these. This does not alter the fact, however, that the present four
canonical Gospels were chosen from a total of 27.
A council decree declared that these four Gospels represent the
true scripture of Christianity. The discrepancies and inconsistencies
among these Gospels are too great to be ignored or denied. Therefore,
a sincere Christian should set aside the dogmatic decisions of the
Church and think with reason and good conscience and reflect a little
on whether these can be regarded as books "not one single letter of
which has ever changed." The books in question, not one letter of
which has ever supposedly been changed, were in fact changed time
and time again by the Church itself. This is established by Christian
historical documents. The footnotes regarding statements in old
copies of the Gospel in present-day editions by themselves make this
perfectly clear.
Another important matter which must be mentioned here is the
situation of Christians who lived during the three centuries after Jesus
and the disciples up until the recognition of the four canonical Gospels
containing belief in the Trinity. Even if these people believed in Jesus
and the Gospel with all their hearts, they were still in a position, in the
eyes of the dogma imposed by the Church, of having abandoned the
faith. How can that be possible? Who could possibly maintain that
people lived in ignorance of the truth for so long when there was a true
faith and its holy book present as a warning? God would never permit
such a thing.
What therefore calls for skepticism is not the period before the
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