Christian-Muslim Dialogue

 Chapter 1: Christian-Muslim Dialogue

“Come now, and letus reason together, saith the LORD”Isaiah 1:18Christians believe that Jesus (pbuh) came to teachall of mankind the religion of God and to show them the path tosalvation. All mankind is therefore required to follow his messageand only those who believe in the crucifixion and the redemptionwill be saved. They believe that the Jews are also required toconvert to Christianity since Jesus was sent to them, therefore,they are the most qualified people to recognize the word of Godand the signs of Jesus (pbuh) to be found in their own book. MostJews, on the other hand, tell us that Jesus (pbuh) was not a messengerof God, but rather a false prophet, a sorcerer, an offspring ofadulterers, and many other allegations. They claim that thereare no prophesies of Jesus (pbuh) in their book and that he wasnot the promised Messiah/Christ (anointed one). Their Messiahis yet to come. For this reason, they claim that they are notrequired by God to follow Jesus (pbuh) and were justified in killinghim.Muslims believe in both Moses and Jesus(pbut) as true prophets of God. We believe that both Moses andJesus as well as Noah, Abraham, Jacob,and all the rest of the prophets of God were all truthful messengersas well as faithful and faultless servants of Allah Almighty.We also believe in the miracles of Jesus (pbuh), including hismiraculous birth. Muslims believe that each time a messenger ofGod would pass away, mankind would begin to slowly fall back upontheir evil deeds until they had managed to corrupt His originalmessage. When this would happen, God Almighty would send a newprophet to renew His original message to these people and returnthem to the straight path. In this manner, the true message ofAllah would always be available to all those who searched forit until the day of judgment. This can be seen in the Bible insuch verses as Matthew 5:17-18 we read:”Think not that I (Jesus) am come to destroythe law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jotor one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all befulfilled, Fulfillment of Law of Moses.”The Jews know God as “Elohiym” or “Yahweh.”The Christians know Him as “God,” or “Father,”or “Jehovah,” etc.. Muslims know him as “Allah”(and more than 99 other venerable names). Muslims believe thatAllah Almighty did not send down many messages to mankind butonly one: The religion of submission to His will, the uniquenessof Himself, and the knowledge that He is the only one worthy ofworship. The details of the religion were molded to suite eachindividual people, but the message was one message: “Allahis One. Worship Him alone!” This is made apparent in theverse of Aal-Umran(3):84 which states that which means:”Say (O Muhammad): We believe in Allah, andthat which is sent down unto us, and that which was revealed untoAbraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac,and Jacob, and the sons of Jacob, and that which wasvouchsafed unto Moses and Jesus and the Prophets fromtheir Lord. We make no distinction between any of them and untoHim we have surrendered.”Also, in Al-Nisaa(5):138 we read that which means”O you who believe! Believe in Allah andHis messenger, and the Scripture (Qur’an) which he has revealedunto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime.Whosoever disbelieves in Allah and His angels and His Scripturesand His messengers and the last day, he verily has wandered farastray.”Muslims are told in the Qur’an that the unscrupulousfew had managed to pervert the words of God Almighty sent downto Jesus (pbuh) and the previous prophets after the passing oftheir prophets. The well meaning masses were then misled by whatwas claimed to be 100% the “inspiration” of God. Thechanges made by these people have resulted in countless contradictionsbetween the verses. As we shall soon see, these contradictionsand changes have been well recognized and documented in the Westfor centuries now. However, their actions have been excused becausethey are assumed to have been well meaning and were only tryingto clarify that which was obscure and so forth when they changedthe word of God (See chapter 2). Whatever their motives, theseapologists forget the command of Deuteronomy 4:2″Ye shall not add unto the word which I commandyou, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keepthe commandments of the LORD your God.”The liberties mankind has taken with God’s previousscriptures is one of the reasons why God sent down the Qur’anas His last message to mankind and took it upon Himself this timeto personally preserve it for all time from corruption or modificationProfessor Arthur J. Arberry writes: “Apart from certain orthographical modificationsof the originally somewhat primitive method of writing, intendedto render unambiguous and easy the task of reading the recitation,the Koran (Qur’an) as printed in the twentieth century is identicalwith the Koran as authorized by Uthman more than 1300 years ago.”On the other hand, Mr. C.G. Tucker says: “…Thus Gospels were produced which clearlyreflected the conception of the practical needs of the communityfor which they were written. In them the traditional materialwas used, but there was no hesitation in altering it or makingadditions to it, or in leaving out what did not serve the writer’spurpose.” “The history of the Christians in the lightof modern knowledge,” C. G. Tucker, p. 320Mr. C.J. Cadoux has the following to say in his book”The life of Jesus” : “In the four Gospels, therefore, the maindocuments to which we must go if we are to fill-out at all thatbare sketch which we can put together from other sources, we findmaterial of widely differing quality as regards credibility. Sofar-reaching is the element of uncertainty that it is temptingto ‘down tools’ at once, and to declare the task hopeless. Thehistorical inconsistencies and improbabilities in parts of theGospels form some of the arguments advanced in favor of the Christ-myththeory. These are, however, entirely outweighed- as we have shown-by other considerations. Still the discrepancies and uncertaintiesthat remain are serious- and consequently many moderns who haveno doubt whatever of Jesus’ real existence, regard as hopelessany attempt to dissolve out of the historically-true from thelegendary or mythical matter which the Gospels contain, and toreconstruct the story of Jesus’ mission out of the more historicalresidue.”Reverend Dr. Davies says: “But to come to realities, no serious modernscholar believes that the speeches appearing in the New Testamentare verbatim records of what the speaker said. Even as conservativea scholar as Headlam has to admit that the speeches are ‘in asense’ – he does not say what sense – the author’s ‘own composition.’… Schmidel, in his article on Acts in the Encyclopedia Biblica,says unreservedly that ‘it is without doubt that the author constructed[the speeches] in each case according to his own conception ofthe situation.’ Schweitzer thinks the speeches in Acts may be’based upon traditions of speeches … actually delivered, butin the form in which we have them they doubtless belong to theauthor of Acts and are adapted to his representation of the facts,”Rev. Davies goes on to quote Thucydides who admits that “..[assigningfictitious speeches to Biblical characters] was the universalancient custom.” “The First Christian,” Reverend Dr. Davies,pp. 23-24Prof. J.R. Drummelow says: “A copyist would sometimes put in not whatwas in the text, but what he thought ought to be in it. He wouldtrust a fickle memory, or he would make the text accord with theviews of the school to which he belonged. In addition to the versionsand quotations from the Christian Fathers, nearly four thousandGreek MSS of the Testament, were known to exist. As a result ,the variety of reading is considerable.””Commentary on the Holy Bible,” page 16Not long after my arrival in the United States, Ihad the pleasure of meeting a Christian gentleman who shall henceforthbe referred to only as Mr. J. Unlike this lowly author, Mr. J.is a “professional” Christian. He also has a historyof strong evangelical activity, at least with the Muslim studentsof our university. Mr. J made himself known to us through writtenletters to us, calls to our Muslim chaplain, and his appearancebefore us on other occasions wherein he called upon us to believein Jesus (pbuh) and to accept his sacrifice. Mr. J. had sent ourMuslim chaplain and myself books with many allegations againstthe Qur’an and a general condemnation of it. A series of friendlydiscussions ensued between us and we have since come to know eachother quite well and have managed to remain friendly and outgoingtowards one another even with our differing beliefs. However,the fact that this author is not a professional religious personor a professional preacher, but rather a simple science student,has made it necessary to schedule these matters around other moreimmediate scholarly concerns. It was first and foremost the willof Allah, then the continuous efforts of Mr. J., his claims regardingIslam, and his sincere efforts to convert me and grant me salvationwhich compelled me to step up my research of the Bible and theQur’an and ultimately, publish this book. I therefore thank AllahAlmighty that he sent Mr. J. to me as a blessing from Himselffor me, and hopefully for many others.Before this book was written, I had published aseriesof articles in a local publication which had been progressingslowly from exhibiting some of the more minor examples of humanmodification to the Bible, such as the fact that the authors ofthe Bible are not who they claim to be, and had been working upto more fundamental issues. Mr. J asked us to publish his counterviewpoint in our publication and we accepted.Mr. J believed that the examples of contradictorystatements in the Bible which we had been jointly discussing didnot in any way affect the founding beliefs of Christianity (seeexamples in chapter two). He provided me with literature by mensuch as Mr. F.F. Bruce stating such things as “….Does it matter whether the New Testamentdocuments are reliable or not? Is it so very important that weshould be able to accept them as truly historical records?”and also”……the story of Jesus as it hascome down to us may be myth or legend, but the teaching ascribedto him- whether he was actually responsible for it or not – hasa value all it’s own,” and so forth.Muslims know for a fact that Jesus (pbuh)was neither a myth nor a legend but a true prophet of God, butwe do feel that an inspired book of God should contain nocontradictions,historical or otherwise. For this reason we do not believe thathis book has reached us as it was originally submitted by him.Mr. J believes that such matters as knowing the trueauthors of the books of the Bible are not crucial to a Christian’sfaith and challenged us to prove that a Christian’s basic faithis at all in error and not the same message preached by Jesus2000 years ago. In compliance with his request, he was sent fourvery brief questions concerning the founding beliefs of Christianity.He was then asked to provide carefully researched and weighedanswers to these questions. These four questions are presentedbelow. They have been slightly modified in this book in orderto ensure that they are as clear as possible. The basic questions,however, remain the same:

1. IS THERE A TRINITY?If so then please present us with as many Biblical referencesas you possibly can and briefly explain it’s fundamental concept.What I mean by this question is: Is God one, period? Or is Godthree, period? Or is He some combination of one and three? Pleasewrite down a brief but clear description of the nature of theTrinity and the exact relationship of each of it’s three membersto one-another. Please do not move on until you have done so sinceyour definition shall have to stand up to the test of the Bibleand be endorsed rather than refuted by the Biblical verses weshall be studying throughout this book.

1. Is the great and faithful messenger of Allah,Jesus the son of Mary (peace be upon them both), the PHYSICALSON OF ALLAH OR NOT? If he is, then give us as manybiblical references as you possibly can. If not then why doesthe majority of Christendom believe that he is thephysical/begotten/siredson of Allah?

1. Did Jesus (pbuh) HIMSELFever say in the Bible “I am a god!,” or “Worshipme!”? If so then give us as many Biblical references as possible.If not, then why does the majority of Christendom believe thathe is a god (not a mortal), and the son of? Jesus (pbuh) is invokeddaily as God to forgive sins, cast out devils, and generally soughtafter in prayer. UPON WHO’S AUTHORITY do Christians believethat Jesus (pbuh) is God? Jesus (pbuh) himself or others? Giveas many references as possible.

1. If it can be proven, through the Bible, thatJesus (pbuh) is not God, nor the physical/begotten/sired son ofGod, neither is there any Trinity, then willthis prove that the unscrupulous few have corrupted the word ofGod or not?

“Faith” is without a doubt one of the mostbasic and fundamental ingredients in the doctrine of any religiousbelief. However, when you wish someone to believe in a givenfundamentaldoctrine which you propose, it is first necessary to prove thevalidity of your assertion before you can ask that person to “havefaith.” In other words, faith is indeed important, however,it can not precede the proof. Once the proof has been established,only then can faith come into play. This is indeed what prophetJesus (pbuh) taught his followers during his lifetime. Jesus (pbuh)did not simply show up before the Jews one day and demand thatthe Pharisees, Sadducees, and everyone else accept him withoutproof. Rather, he performed many miracles for them and at thesame time reasoned with them and used logic to convince them.The Bible is full of examples of how Jesus (pbuh) would go outof his way to explain things to his followers, reason with themand prove his case to them.Obviously, when we ask for proof that a given persontaught a given doctrine, the very first place to look for proofof this claim is the words of that person himself. If I believethat Jesus (pbuh) taught a given fundamental doctrine such asthe Trinity, the “Son of God,” the “original sin,”or the “atonement,” then not only would I be justifiedin expecting him to have mentioned it at least once throughouthis whole ministry, but I would expect him to have spoken ofpracticallynothing else. For this reason, the above four questions have beenproposed in order to arrive at the command of Jesus (pbuh). IfJesus did indeed ever command that I should worship a Trinityor that I should believe that he is God, then I would expect himto say so clearly at least once in his whole life. If he saysit at least once then others shall be justified in repeating ita thousand times. However, I want to first know …What did Jesus really say?The Bible says:”Jesus answered and said unto him, If a manlove me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, andwe will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”John 14:23Jesus (peace be upon him) clearly outlines here thatit is his words that we must keep and that shalllead to the love of God. Naturally, I wish to know what Jesussaid so that I might follow his command, and his alone. Everyone else’s words without exception shall then be either acceptedor rejected based upon their conformance to the words of the greatand pious messenger of Allah, Jesus the son of Mary. Does thissound fair?The Christian world has performed a very admirablejob in providing us with Bibles in practically every size, language,shape and color. Among these Bibles are the series of Bibles titledthe “Red letter editions.” These Bibles are set apartfrom more conventional Bibles in that the words of Jesus aredistinguishedfrom the rest of the text by writing them in red ink. This makesthe process of locating the words of Jesus and differentiatingthem from those of everyone else much simpler for the reader.Our goal in this book is to find evidence in the REDink of where Jesus (pbuh) himself ever taughtmankind any of the fundamental concepts of the religion whichhas been attributed to him and which is named “Christianity”.We shall see in what follows that whenever someone tries to validatesuch doctrines they always attempt to do so with the words inthe BLACK ink and never the ones in REDink.Muslims are told in the Qur’an that Jesus (pbuh)was one of the most pious and elect messengers of God Almightyfor all time. However, we are also told that he was not himselfa god, nor the physical son of God. We read inthe Qur’an:”And when Allah said: O Jesus, son of Mary!Did you say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods besideAllah?* he said: Be You glorified. It was not mineto utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, thenYou knew it. You know what is in my [innermost] self but I knownot what is in Yours. Truly! You, only You are the Knower of thingshidden. I spoke unto them only that which You commanded me, (saying):Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord, and I was a witness overthem while I dwelt among them, and when You took me You were theWatcher over them, and You are Witness over all things.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Maidah(5):116-118Obviously, both claims can not be true. Either Jesus(pbuh) did indeed command mankind to worship him or he did not.Since my level of knowledge of the words of the Bible obviouslycan not compare with that of Mr. J., therefore, I was hoping thathe could demonstrate to me where Jesus actually said any of thesethings. Since the issues of the Trinity, the Son of God, the originalsin, and the atonement comprise the most fundamental differencesin belief between the Islamic and Christian faith, therefore,I had hoped that in answering these four very brief questionsit might be possible to once and for all arrive at the true commandof Jesus. Mr. J’s response follows:1.1 Christian perspective It is my great privilege and pleasure to have beeninvited to address the readers [of this publication] on some ofthe most important distinctions between Christianity and Islam.Four questions have been proposed as a means of clarifying theBiblical perspective in relation to the series of articles onJesus and Christianity that appeared last semester.As I see it, all four questions essentially cometogether in one basic question: Who is Jesus? The answer to thatquestion, and the heart of the message that has been proclaimedby followers of Jesus since His advent, is that “you maybelieve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that bybelieving you may have life in His name.” (John 20:31).Addressing each of these questions may now helpclarifythis historic Christian conviction.1. Is there a Trinity?The Biblical teaching of God’s essential nature,summarized in the word “Trinity,” restslargely on our understanding of the identity of Jesus, a questionI will take up in some length under question #3.At this point, perhaps a demonstration that theterminologyfor the doctrine of the Trinity is found throughout the New Testament:* “therefore go and make disciples of all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and ofthe Holy Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19).* “There are different kinds of gifts, but thesame Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the sameLord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God worksall of them in all men.” (I Corinthians 12:4-6).* “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, andthe love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be withyou all.” (II Corinthians 13:14).* “But you, dear friends, build yourselves upin your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselvesin God’s love as you wait for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christto bring you to eternal life.” (Jude 20-21).The doctrine of the Trinity is perhaps bestunderstoodin terms of Christian salvation. Christians believe that God theFather wills that we be reconciled to Him from sin, and that Hesent the Son, Who in His perfect life andsubstitutionarydeath provides the basis of that reconciliation, and that theFather now, in Jesus’ name, sends the Holy Spirit, Who appliesthe salvation of Jesus to the Christian believers, thus savingthem and empowering them to live lives of victory over sin. Thusis the Christian’s experience and assurance of salvation in termsof the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet they absolutelybelieve that there is only one God. How do we putthis together? This is where the word “Trinity”comes in. It expresses this truth about God as it is found inthe Bible.This is certainly not an exhaustive explanation,but it may help to demonstrate the significance of the doctrinein practical Christian life.2. Is Jesus the physical (begotten/sired) sonof GodSon of God?Jesus is presented in the New Testament as the Sonof God by virtue of His unique eternal relationship with the Fatherand by means of His unique virgin birth. We needto understand, then, how Jesus is the Son of God. The New Testamenttells us how:This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about:His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but beforethey came together, she was found to be with child through theHoly Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man anddid not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mindto divorce her quietly.But after he had considered this, an angel of theLord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son ofDavid, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, becausewhat is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will givebirth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, becausehe will save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:18-21).The question as stated implies that Jesus is somehowthe result of a physical union between God and Mary, but thisis not at all the case. Jesus’ birth is a miraculous event throughthe agency of the Holy Spirit. Thus the Son’s deity is incarnated,or made flesh; in this Jesus is the “God-man”Begotten is the old English word that, while in humanterms means to have a child, the emphasis even there is that whata human father “begets’ shares in the essential nature ofthat father. It is in this sense that the King James translatesthe Greek word monogenes as “begotten ; Jesus shares theessential nature of the Father, but rather through some physicalact, but a supernatural one.3. Did Jesus Himself ever say in the Bible “Iam God!” or “worship me!”?What makes Jesus stand out from all other religiousfigures is the nature of His claims about Himself. He claims theprerogatives of God, the rightful object of a person’s supremeallegiance, and receives with out censure the worship and obedienceof those who believe.A number of examples may help to illustrate this:A. Forgiveness of sinsIn Mark 2:1-12, we read the account of Jesus healinga crippled man. What is so surprising, and so shocking to Hisoriginal audience, is the statement that Jesus makes before healingthe man.As Jesus sees a group of men bring the paralyticto Him, Mark records the scene:When Jesus saw their faith , he said to theparalytic,”Son, your sins are forgiven.”Now some teachers of the law were sitting there,thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that?He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” ImmediatelyJesus knew in his spirit that this was what they werethinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are youthinking these things? Which is easier: to say to the paralytic,’Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat andwalk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authorityon earth to forgive sins…” He said to the paralytic, “Itell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” He got up,took his mat and walked out in full view of them all.B. TitlesJesus in the Gospels appropriates two significanttitles throughout His ministry:1. The Son of ManThis is the title that Jesus Himself uses mostfrequently. It is a Messianic title derived from the Old Testament bookofDaniel. When we read the passage in Daniel, the implicit claimthat Jesus is making about Himself becomes apparent:In my vision at night I looked, and there beforeme was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven.He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.He (the son of man) was given authority, glory and sovereign power;all peoples, nations and men of every language worshipped him.His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. (Daniel7:13-14).2. The Son of GodAt His trial Jesus affirmed this title: Again thehigh priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of theBlessed One?” “I am,” said Jesus. And you willsee the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty Oneand coming on the clouds of heaven. (Mark 14:61-63).C. Jesus’ direct claimsAt the climax of a lengthy argument, Jesus speaksof Himself: “Your father Abraham rejoiced atthe thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” “Youare not yet fifty years old,” the Jews said to him, “andyou have seen Abraham!” “I tell you the truth,”Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself,slipping away from the temple grounds.” (John 8:56-59).The shock of this claim are those two words “Iam.” It is the same designation that God used for Himselfin His call to Moses: God said to Moses, “IAM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘IAM has sent me to you.'” (Exodus 3:14).D. Jesus receives worshipJesus heard that they had thrown him out, and whenhe found him, Jesus said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?””Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so thatI may believe in him..” Jesus said, “You have now seenhim; in fact, he is the one speaking with you..” Then theman said, “Lord. I believe,” and he worshipped him.” (John 9:35-38).Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to themountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, theyworshipped him… (Matthew 28:16-17).E. Jesus accepts divine entitlementIn what is a clear dialogue between Jesus and”Doubting”Thomas, we read: Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your fingerhere; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side.Stop doubting and believe..” Thomas said to him, “MyLord and my God!” Then Jesus held him,” Because youhave seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have notseen and yet have believed.” (John 20:27-29).Does Jesus say, “I am God”? No, becausethat would have been misunderstood. Jesus is not the Father (asit would have been thought), Jesus is the Son. But He clearlyclaims an absolutely unique relationship with God whom Jesus calls’Father.” Jesus claims something about Himself that, throughthe various miracles, His statements as cited above, and the responseHe receives from other people, is slowly filled-out, and the meaningof His Sonship becomes clear.In the very opening of his Gospel, the Apostle Johnpresents Jesus as “the Word” and provides perhaps theclearest explanation of the identity of Jesus, the meaning ofthe incarnation, and a further glimpse intothe reality of the Trinity:In the beginning was the Word, and the Wordwas with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.Through him all things were made; without him nothing was madethat has been made. In him was life, and that life was the lightof men. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We haveseen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who camefrom the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-4; 14).4. If it can be proven, through the Bible, thatJesus is not God, nor the physical/begotten/sired son of GodSon of God,neither is there any trinity, then will thisprove that the unscrupulous few have corrupted the word of God? The Christian message about Jesus revolves aroundthree facts: the incarnation, the crucifixion,and the resurrection. Prove from the Bible or otherwise thatany one of these three things are not true, and like a three-leggedstool the truth of the message would collapse.Most “proofs” against the traditional teachingsof Christianity consist of pitting one passage of Scripture againstanother, and almost always taking such passages out of context.Context, I believe, always vindicates the understanding of Godand of Jesus as I have here tried to briefly present.I would conclude, then, with an encouragement forthe readers to read the Bible, particularly one of the Gospels,for themselves. There, I believe, the words and works of Jesuswould provide a most convincing reason to embrace Him as Lordand Savior, and find in Him the spiritual satisfactionthat so many today seek after.1.2 Muslim perspective (Note: the rest of chapter one is an expansionofthe original response to Mr. J’s letter)Thank you Mr. J for your mostthought provoking letter. I would also like to thank you for theknowledge you have providedtherein. In what is to follow I have striven to avoid objectionableor disrespectful wording. This is an academic exchange and nota slug-fest. I am however human. If one or two cases have slippedby me then I apologize in advance for them. They were not intentional.I also realize that this is quite a lengthy response for someoneto read in one sitting. However, I ask the reader to try to doso and not to pass judgment until they have managed to receivea complete picture. Now, the response:The three faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,all purport to share one fundamental concept: belief in God asthe Supreme Being, the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.Known as “Tawhid” in Islam, this concept of Onenessof God was stressed by Moses (pbuh) in the Biblicalpassage Known as the “Shema,” or the Jewishcreed of faith: “Hear, O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord”Deuteronomy 6:4It was repeated word-for-word approximately 1500years later by Jesus (pbuh) when he said “…The first of all the commandments is,Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord.” Mark 12:29Muhammad (pbuh) came along approximately 600 yearslater, bringing the same message again: “And your God is One God: there is no godbut He” The noble Qur’an, al-Bakarah(2):163Christianity has digressed from the concept of theOneness of God, however, into a vague and mysterious doctrinethat was formulated during the fourth century CE (see historicaldetails in section 1.2.5). This doctrine, which continues tobe the source of controversy both within and outside the Christianreligion, is known as the Doctrine of the Trinity. Simply put,the Christian doctrine of the Trinity states that God is the unionof three divine persons – the Father, the Son and the HolySpirit – in one divine being. Christians must guard themselvesfrom ever claiming that they worship three gods since this wouldbe a heresy of the worst kind. Christians are commanded to alwaysrefer to them all as ONE God. This belief, as we shall soon seein coming chapters, was first put to words in the famous “Creedof Nicea” in 325C.E. Among otherthings, it says:”Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all,keep the Catholic faith. For unless a person keeps this faithwhole and entire he will undoubtedly be lost forever. This iswhat the Catholic faith teaches: we worship one God in the Trinityand the Trinity in unity. We distinguish among the persons, butwe do not divide the substance. For the Father is a distinct person;the Son is a distinct person; and the Holy Spirit is a distinctperson. Still the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit haveone divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty. What the Fatheris, the Son is, and the Holy Spirit is. The Father is uncreated,the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated. The Fatheris boundless, the Son is boundless, and the Holy Spirit is boundless.The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spiritis eternal. Nevertheless, there are not three eternal beings,but one eternal being. Thus there are not three uncreated beings,nor three boundless beings, but one uncreated being and one boundlessbeing. Likewise, the Father is omnipotent, the Son is omnipotent,and the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. Yet there are not three omnipotentbeings, but one omnipotent being. Thus the Father is God, theSon is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. But there are not threegods, but one God. The Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and theHoly Spirit is Lord. There as not three lords, but one Lord. Foraccording to Christian truth, we must profess that each of thepersons individually is God; and according to Christian religionwe are forbidden to say that there are three gods or lords. …Butthe entire three persons are coeternal and coequal with one another….Sothat, as we have said, we worship complete unity in the Trinityand the Trinity in unity. This, then, is what he who wishes tobe saved must believe about the Trinity….This is the Catholicfaith. Everyone must believe it, firmly and steadfastly; otherwiseHe cannot be saved. Amen.”Christian sects are many and varied. However, themajority of Christians the world over believe in the followingfour basic concepts:

1. The Trinity,
2. The divine Sonship of Jesus (pbuh),
3. The original sin, and
4. The death of “the Son of God”on the cross in atonement for the original sin ofAdam.

Everything else is pretty much relegated into thebackground. A Christian can be saved and enter heaven by simplybelieving in the above creeds. According to St. Paul, the previouslaw and commandments of God are worthless, this simple beliefwill guarantee for all comers eternal salvation. For example,St. Paul is quoted to have said: “Therefore we conclude that a man is justifiedby faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans 3:28.The words of Saint Paul are held by most ofChristianityin the highest regard, and this is understandable since he isthe primary author of the majority of the books of the New Testament.However, no matter what role St. Paul played in the definitionand spread of Christianity, when displaying respect for the teachingsof Paul, it is necessary not to lose sight of the fact that heis in no way equal to Jesus, nor should his command be placedbefore the command of Jesus if we were to find them to differfrom one another. No one, not even Paul or the apostles of Jesushas this right, since they are all, after all, subordinate toJesus Christ himself.However, were we to study the religion known todayas “Christ”ianity, we would find that it is the interpretationof St. Paul of what he personally believed to be the religionof Jesus(pbuh). Christianity as it stands today has been reducedto an interpretation of the words of Jesus (pbuh) within thecontext of what Paul taught rather than the other way aroundwhich is the way it should be. We would expect Christianity tobe the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) and that the words of Paul andeveryone else would be accepted or rejected according to theirconformity to these “Jesuit” teachings. However, wewill notice in what follows that Jesus (pbuh) never in his lifetimementioned an original sin, or an atonement. He never asked anyoneto worship him, neither did he ever claim to be part of a Trinity.His words and actions are those of a loyal messenger of God whofaithfully and faultlessly followed the commands of his Lord andonly told his followers to do the same and to worship God alone(John 4:21, John 4:23, Matthew 4:10, Luke 4:8 …etc.).Just one of the countless examples of this placementof the words of Paul above the words of Jesus can be seen in thefollowing analysis: Jesus (pbuh) is claimed to have been preparedfor his sacrifice on the cross from the beginningof time and was a willing victim (otherwise we would have to claimthat God is a sadistic and torturous God who forced Jesusinto such a savage end). However, whenever Jesus (pbuh) was askedabout the path to “eternal life” he consistentlytold his followers to only “keep the commandments”and nothing more (Matthew 19:16-21, John 14:15, John 15:10). Not oncedid he himself ever mention an original sin or a redemption. Even whenpressed for the path to “PERFECTION” he onlytold his followers to sell their belongings. He departed thisearth leaving his followers with the very dire threat:”For verily I say unto you, Till heaven andearth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from thelaw, till all be fulfilledJesus,Fulfillment of Law of Moses.Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdomof heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shallbe called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:18-19.Obviously, heaven and earth have not yet passed. Thefact that you are reading this book bears witness to thisvery simple fact. So Jesus (pbuh) is telling us that so longas creation exists, the commandments will be required fromhis followers. Anyone who will dare to say otherwise, until theend of time, will be called “the least in the kingdomof heaven.” Jesus (pbuh) had foreseen mankind’s attemptto distort and annul his commandments, the commandments of Moses(pbuh), which he had taught his followers to keepand himself had kept faithfully till the crucifixion, and waswarning his followers in no uncertain terms to be wary of allthose who would attempt to do so.Not long after, Jesus departs. Now Saul of Tarsus(St. Paul), a man who never met Jesus (pbuh), a man who by hisown admission persecuted the followers of Jesus (pbuh) by everymeans within his power and presided over their execution (seebelow), comes along. Suddenly one day St. Paul receives a visionfrom Jesus (pbuh), and his whole life is turned around. He nowtakes it upon himself through the authority of his visions tospread the word of Jesus to the whole world and to explain whatJesus really meant. Paul claims that the law of God throughMoses (pbuh) is worthless, decaying and ready to vanishaway and faith in the crucifixion is the only requirement fora Christian to enter heaven (Romans 3:28, Hebrews 8:13…etc.). Who doChristians listen to, Jesus or Paul? They listen to Paul. They take thewords of Paul literally and then “interpret”the words of Jesus (pbuh) within the context of the words ofPaul. No one takes the words of Jesus (pbuh) literallyand explains the words of Paul within the context of Jesus’words.According to this system of explaining the wordsof Jesus within the context of Paul’s teachings, Jesus never actuallymeans what he says but is constantly speaking in riddles whichare not to be taken literally. Even when people attempt to citethe words of Jesus as confirming the teachings of Paul with regardto the original sin, the atonement, …etc. they never bring clearand decisive words where Jesus actually confirms these things.Instead, they say such things as “When Jesus spoke ofthe exodus he was really speaking of the atonement” orso forth. Are we to believe that Paul is the only one who cansay what is on his mind clearly and decisively while Jesus (pbuh)is not capable of articulating what he means clearly and decisivelybut requires interpreters to explain the “true”meaning of what he said, and to explain how, when he spoke ofthe commandments, he was not talking of “the commandments”but of a spiritual commandment and that they will now tellyou what this spiritual commandment is that Jesus never managedto talk clearly about?.It is interesting to note that Jesus was not talkingin riddles when he commanded his followers to keep the commandmentsbut was talking of the actual physical commandments of Moses.This can be clearly seen by reading for instance Luke 18:20 whereJesus spells out in no uncertain terms what he means by “keepthe commandments.””And I (Jesus) have come confirming thatwhich was before me of the Torah, and to make lawful for you partof that which was forbidden upon you. And I have come to youwith a sign from your Lord so seek refuge in Allah and obey me” The noble Qur’an, Aal-Umran(3):50In the past, I have searched for a logical answerto this puzzle by posing the following questions to respectedChristian clergy:

1. According to you, Jesus is supposed to have beenprepared for the “atonement” from the beginning of time. He should knowthat it is coming.
2. Whenever he was asked about the path to “eternallife” (i.e. Matthew 19:16-22 ..etc.) he consistentlytold his followers to only “keep the commandments” justas he had “kept my father’s commandments” ..etc.
3. Even when he was pressed for more, he only toldhis followers that in order to be PERFECT they needed onlyto sell their belongings.
4. Not once did he mention an “atonement”or and “original sin.”
5. The commandments he spoke about were thecommandmentsof Moses and not some “spiritual” commandments. This can beseen in the text itself where Jesus (pbuh) explicitlyspells out some of the commandments of Moses one by one.
6. St. Paul, a disciple of a disciple, is the onewho is followed by Christianity and not Jesus. Jesus’ teachingsare explained within the context of Paul’s teachings and not viceversa.

Whenever this question would be presented to arespectedmember of the Christian clergy the response would always be thesame: “Well, don’t take Jesus’ words literally. St.Paul has told us in Romans …,” or “Yes, but St. Paultells us in Galatians ….,” or “St. Paul tells us inCorinthians ..” Yet my question remains: where did JESUSevery say it? Where does the RED ink say it? Doesn’tSt. Paul’s authority come from Jesus? I simply want a singleclear statement from Jesus himself where he endorsed Paul’s claimsand then it would be possible to accept Paul’s claim that he wasindeed preaching the “command of Jesus.” If Jesus wereonly to say it once then I can accept Paul repeating it a thousandtimes. However, as we shall soon see, never, noteven once in his whole lifetime did Jesus (pbuh)endorse the preachings of Paul.Getting back to the matter at hand, the reader willnotice in Mr. J’s response a surprising absence of certain veryfundamental verses usually quoted by any Christian man or womanoff the street in defense of the “Trinity”and other issues. The reader may further surmise that Mr. J mightnot be well versed enough in the Bible to have referred to theseverses. This is far from the case. His occupation requires thathe know those verses. The fact of the matter is that I have hadan ongoing correspondence with Mr. J for a number of months nowwhich he has now asked be publicized. In this correspondence,many of these fundamental verses were dealt with in detail andrefuted for various reasons. This is why he did not quote themhere. However, in order that all may benefit from this informationwe will quote these same verses that he has elected not to. Wewill also study the other verses he has presented.1.2.1 “Blind faith” or “Prove all things”?Before actually getting downto our response, let us first establish the ground rules. AllBibles in existence today tell us that Christians are taught byJesus (pbuh) himself: “And Jesus answered him, The first of allthe commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and withall thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:this is the first commandment.” Mark 12:29-30.They are also told”Prove all things; hold fast that which isgood” 1 Thessalonians 5:21and “For God is not [the author] of confusion”1 Corinthians 14:33.So, contrary to the teachings of many, Jesus (pbuh)did not want his followers to believe everything they were toldon “blind faith.” Rather, he wanted his followersto believe “with all thy mind.” He wanted usto THINK in order to protect his words from corruption.Let us comply with the teaching of Allah’s elect messenger, Jesus(peace be upon him), and see where the truth and our minds willlead us:

1.2.2: The “Trinity,” or 1+1+1=1″Opeople of the book!commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught butthe truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was [no more or less than]a messenger of Allah, and His word, which he bestowed upon Mary,and a spirit preceding from Him: so believe in Allah and hismessengers.Say not “Three”: desist!, it is better for you, forAllah is one god, Glory be to Him, Far exalted is He above havinga son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and the earth.And enough is Allah as a disposer of affairs.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Nissah(4):171″Or have they (mankind) chosen gods fromthe earth who raise the dead If there were therein gods besidesAllah then verily both (the heavens and the earth) would havegone to ruin. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the throne fromall they ascribe (unto Him)”The noble Qur’an, Al-Anbia(21):21-22″Allah coineth a similitude: A man in relationto whom are several partners quarreling, and a man belonging whollyto one man. Are the two equal in similitude? Praise be to Allah,but most of them know not.” The noble Qur’an, Al-Zumar(39):27.In other words, which would be more conducive ofharmony: For an employee to have two bosses quarreling over him,or for each employee to have only one boss?”Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): Ifthere were other gods along with Him, as they say, then they wouldhave sought a way against the Lord of the Throne. Glorified isHe, and High Exalted above what they say! The seven heavens andthe earth and all that is therein praise Him, and there is nota thing but hymns his praise; but you understand not their praise.Lo! He is ever Clement, Forgiving.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Israa(17):42-44.”And say: Praise be to Allah, Who has nottaken unto Himself a son, and Who has no partner in the Sovereignty,nor has He any ally through dependence. And magnify Him with allmagnificence.” The noble Qur’an, Al-Israa(17):111.”Allah has not chosen any son, nor is thereany God along with Him; else would each God have assuredly championedthat which he created, and some of them would assuredly have overcomeothers. Glorified be Allah above all that they allege. Knowerof the invisible and the visible! and exalted be He over all thatthey ascribe as partners (unto Him)!”The noble Qur’an, Al-Muminoon(23):91-92.The concept of the “Trinity”as originally adopted by Christianity three centuries afterthe departure of Jesus (see historical details at the end of thischapter) and taught to Christians ever since is the merging ofthree entities into one similar entity while remaining three distinctentities. In other words: Three bodies fold, blend, or merge intoone body so that they become one entity while at the same timeexhibiting the characteristics of three distinct and separateentities. It is described as “a mystery.” As we justread, the first definition of the Trinity was put forth in thefourth century as follows: “…we worship one God in thetrinity, and Trinity in Unity…for there is one Person of theFather, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one…they are not three gods, but one God… the whole three personsare co-eternal and co-equal…he therefore that will be savedmust thus think of the trinity…” (excerpts from theAthanasian creed).When the Church speaks of worship, God, Jesus, andthe Holy Ghost are claimed to be one being. Thisis because verses such as Isaiah 43:10-11 and countless othersare very explicit in affirming that God Almighty is ONE. However,when they speak of “the death of God” it is Jesus (pbuh)who is claimed to have died and not God or the “Trinity.”Now the three are separate. When God is described as having”begotten” a son it is not the “Trinity” norJesus (pbuh) which has begotten, but a distinctly separatebeing from the other two… there are many such examples. So howdo we resolve this problem? Do we simply have blind faith or dowe “love the Lord thy God … with all thy mind,”?.If we chose the later course of action then we shall first needto specify what authority we shall accept in our recognition ofthe true divine nature of God Almighty.When God Almighty sends down a revelation, Headdressesit to the common man, the carpenter, the blacksmith, the localmerchant. God does not reveal His scriptures in a language thatonly the deep thinkers, the most learned scholars, and those withPh.D.s in rocket science alone can understand. This is not tosay that it is not necessary to consult people of authority inthis scripture in times of difficulty regarding matters of secondaryimportance, however, if it were impossible for the common manto even recognize from his scripture who is God, or “whodo I worship?” without extensive external influences fromlearned clergymen, then I am sure you will agree that not verymany people shall ever be guided to the truth of this scriptureand the basic message contained therein.The matter of “who do I worship” is withouta doubt the hands-down most important, nay crucial, piece ofinformationthat must be provided a reader of a divine scripture before theycan accept a single word of this scripture. This matter must bemade exceedingly clear to them before they can accept a singlecommandment. If I wish to work for a company but I do not knowwho is(are) my boss(s) then how can I know what he(they) wantme to do? How can I know which commands to follow and which notto?For the same reason, we would be justified inexpectingthat if we were to present a native of the jungles of Zimbabwewith a copy of a divine scripture in it’s original language, andwe were to leave without saying a single word to him, then wewould expect that at the very least, this person should be ableto extract from this scripture the nature of the One who inspiredthis book.Therefore, let us begin by drawing a table andincludingin this table some commands of the Bible where we are explicitlycommanded to recognize that God is one, and also all verses whereit explicitly commands us to believe that He isthree. Once the Bible commands me to believe that God is threein one then I shall not ask for an explanation or a justification.I do not need God to explain “how” He can be “one”and also “three” at the same time. All I want is forthe Bible to command me to believe that this is so and then commandme to have blind faith. Here is our table:

–	Explicit Statement
God is ONE	–
God is THREE	–

Now that we have built this table we are ready to proceed. Letus begin by filling in the first line.In the Bible we read:

1. “Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thineheart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon theearth beneath: [there is] none else.”Deuteronomy 4:39.
2. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”Exodus 20:3
3. “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:” Exodus34:14
4. “Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servantwhom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understandthat I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shallthere be after me. I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [thereis] no savior.” Isaiah 43:10-11.
5. “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemerthe LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; andbeside me [there is] no God.” Isaiah 44:6
6. “That they may know from the rising of the sun, andfrom the west, that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD,and [there is] none else.” Isaiah 45:6
7. “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens;God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath establishedit, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I[am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.”Isaiah 45:18.
8. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of theearth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.” Isaiah45:22

This is only a brief sampling, however, it is sufficient for now.So let us fill in the table.

–	Explicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14
God is THREE	–

So now let us move on and fill in the second line. Let us startwith the verses quoted by Mr. J.Mr. J. has presented us with Matthew 28:19, I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14, and Jude 1:20-21 as proof of the claim thatGod Almighty is three-in-one. Let us study them. But first, letus clearly define our goal. When I asked for a verse wherein Godis explicitly claimed to be “three in one,” what I wantedwas a verse that says something like “God, Jesus and theHoly Ghost are all gods, however, they are not three gods butone God,” or “God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghostare the same being,” or “God, Jesus, and theHoly Ghost are one and the same” etc.Just because the words “God,” “Jesus,” and”Holy Ghost” might appear together in one verse doesnot mean this verse requires a “Trinity,” or “mergingof three into one.” Even if this verse also contains theword “one” this still does not necessarily require a”Trinity.” For example, if I say “Joe, Jim,and Frank speak one language” this is not the same assaying “Joe, Jim, and Frank are one person.”As we shall see, the examples Mr. J. has presented are all atbest implicit statements, so let us begin by modifying our tableand inserting these verses:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is THREE	None so far	Matthew 28:19, I Corinthians 12:4-6, IICorinthians 13:14, Jude 1:20-21

Let us now study Mr. J.’s examples:

1.2.2.1 Matthew 28:19″Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing themin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”If ex-President George Bush told General Norman Schwartzkopf to”Go ye therefore, and speak to the Iraqis, chastisingthem in the name of the United States, Great Britain, and theSoviet Union,” does this require that these three countriesare one physical country? They may be one in purposeand in their goals but this does in no way require thatthey are the same physical entity.Further, the “Great Commission” as narrated in the Gospelof Mark, bears no mention of the Father, Son and/or HolyGhost (see Mark 16:15). As we shall see in chapter two, Christianhistorians readily admit that the Bible was the object of continuous”correction” and “addition” to bring it inline with established beliefs. They present many documented caseswhere words were “inserted” into a given verse to validatea given doctrine. Tom Harpur, former religioneditor of the Toronto Star says:”All but the most conservative of scholars agree thatat least the latter part of this command was inserted later. Theformula occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, and we knowfrom the only evidence available (the rest of the New Testament)that the earliest Church did not baptize people using these words- baptism was ‘into’ or ‘in’ the name of Jesus alone. Thus itis argued that the verse originally read ‘baptizing them in myname’ and then was expanded to work in the dogma. In fact, thefirst view put forward by German critical scholars as well asthe Unitarians in the nineteenth century, was stated as the acceptedposition of mainline scholarship as long ago as 1919, when Peake’scommentary was first published: ‘The church of the first daysdid not observe this world-wide commandment, even if they newit. The command to baptize into the threefold name is a late doctrinalexpansion.'” “For Christ’s sake,” Tom Harpur, p.103This is confirmed in ‘Peake’s Commentary on the Bible’ publishedsince 1919, which is universally acclaimed and considered to bethe standard reference for students of the Bible. It says:”This mission is described in the language of the churchand most commentators doubt that the Trinitarian formula was originalat this point in Mt.’s Gospel, since the NT elsewhere does notknow of such a formula and describes baptism as being performedin the name of the Lord Jesus (e.g. Ac. 2:38, 8:16, etc.).”For example, these Christian scholars observed that after Jesusallegedly issued this command and then was taken up into heaven,the apostles displayed a complete lack of knowledge of this command.”And Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each of yoube baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness ofyour sins;…'”Acts 2:38.These Christian scholars observed that it is extremely unlikelythat if Jesus had indeed specifically commanded his apostles to”baptize in the name of the father and the son and the holyGhost” that the apostles would later disobey his direct commandand baptize only in the name of Jesus Christ, alone.As a final piece of evidence, it is noted that after the departureof Jesus, when Paul decided to preach to the Gentiles, this resultedin a heated debate and a great difference of opinion between himand at least three of the apostles. This would not be the caseif Jesus had, as claimed, openly commanded them to preach to theGentiles (see section 6.13 for more). So we notice that not onlydoes this verse never claim that the three are one, or even thatthe three are equal, but most scholars of Christianity today recognizethat at the very least the last part of this verse (“theFather, the Son, and the Holy Ghost”) was not originallypart of the command of Jesus but was inserted by the church longafter Jesus’ departure.1.2.2.2 I Corinthians 12:4-6″Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same Godwhich worketh all in all.”If I were to say: “There are diversities of gifts, butthe same Santa Claus. And there are differences of administrations,but the same government. And there are a diversity of operations,but the same God worketh all in all.” Do God, the USgovernment and Santa Claus now form another “Trinity”?Is this indeed how this verse was meant to be read? Is it impossibleto receive “gifts,” “administrations,” and”operations” except from ONE person? There isa big difference between this verse and between saying “God,Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are one and the same.” Even inthe very best case, no one who reads I Corinthians 12:4-6 willclaim that it explicitly states that the three are one,they themselves will have to admit that it only impliessuch a connection. So now we need to ask: Why would God Almightyneed to resort to implying His triune nature if this isindeed what He intended? What is preventing Him from simply comingout and stating His intent clearly if this is indeed what He meant?Why does everything have to be so abstract? If this is the truenature of God then why can’t the Bible just come out and say “God,Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are physically joined in one being”or “God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are one and the same.”Is this so very hard? Look at how much less space this would require.Look at how infinitely more clear and decisive that would be.Look at the clear cut decisiveness of Deuteronomy 4:39″Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart,that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath:there is none else.”God does not philosophize and speak all the way around matters.He speaks clearly and in no uncertain terms so that there canbe no doubt as to what He meant. If God was indeed a Trinitywhy would He not simply just come out and say so, just as clearlyand decisively as He does when He speaks about his uniqueness?1.2.2.3 II Corinthians 13:14″The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.”If I say: “May the genius of Einstein, the philosophyof Descartes, and the strength of Schwarzenegger be with you all”does this require all three to be joined in a “Trinity”?Does it require that Einstein is Descartes (or adifferent “side” of Descartes)? Does it require thatDescartes is Schwarzenegger (or a different “side”of Schwarzenegger)?1.2.2.4 Jude 1:20-21″But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your mostholy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in thelove of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ untoeternal life.”By now we begin to get the picture. Do these verses requirea Trinity?. Do they say “God, Jesus, and theHoly Ghost are ONE God?” If a father told his sons who weregoing off to war “But ye, beloved, building up yourselveson your training, obeying your superior officers, Keep yourselvesin the love of your country while you look for the mercy of Godto return you home to us safely,” can we honestly claimthat this statement requires a “merging of three into one”?.Deuteronomy 4:39 requires the uniqueness of God. It isvery explicit. There are no two ways about it. Itis very clear, decisive, and to the point. The explicit (and notthe “hidden”) meaning is quite clear and direct. Isit impossible to find the Bible only a single verse that is similarlydecisive about the claimed Trinity?. All of these verses requireyou to really strain the words and stretch their meaning to arriveat any merging of three into one.With regard to Mr. J.’s description of the Trinityplease read the analysis of the original sin and the redemptioncoming up soon.An interesting point is that when people tell us about the doctrineof the “Trinity,” even in the very bestcase, they never try to claim that any Jew knew of this formulabefore the coming of Jesus (pbuh) or worshipped a “Triune”God. However, God Almighty was sending prophets to the Jews forcenturies before the time of Jesus, and Jesus is claimed to havebeen in existence before all of creation. Why did none of theseprevious prophets tell their people that God was three?. Theywent out of their way to make it very explicitly clear that Godwas ONE as seen in the above examples, however, there is not asingle Jew alive who worships a Trinity, believes that the HolySpirit mentioned in their Old Testament is God, or worships a”Son of God.” Even if the Jews do not believe that Jesusis the “Son of God,” would we not be justified in expectingthat they should at least believe that “there is” a”Son of God” even if he was someone other than Jesus?Would we not be justified in expecting the previous prophets tohave mentioned this fact? Why did God wait to favor us alone withthis knowledge and chose to deprive many countless thousands ofgenerations before Jesus the knowledge of this claimed fact? Didthe countless prophets of the Old Testament not know about the”Trinity”? Did God not see fit to tell the Jews aboutthe Trinity? Was God not yet a “Trinity” when He sentAbraham (pbuh) to his people? Was Henot yet a “Trinity” when He spoke to Moses (pbuh)? DidHe become a “Trinity” later on? How then do we explainthe Christian creed of Nicea, the officialChurch definition of the “Trinity” which requires the”co-eternity” and “co-substantiality” of Jesuswith God? But let us continue with our analysis. Let us beginby updating our table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is THREE	–	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21

When someone speaks to someone else about a specific matter, theyusually spend the majority of their time explaining the majorissues and much less time on side-issues. For instance, if I wantedto give someone my favorite recipe for chicken parmesan I wouldspend most of my time speaking about the ingredients, their amounts,their order of combination, the amount of time needed to cookeach one and so on. I would spend very little time (comparatively)talking about how to set the table or what color bowl to serveit in. When comparing this observation to the Bible, I found thatfor a matter of such profound and dire importance, the “Trinity”is never mentioned in the Bible at all. Sound preposterous? Readon.Let us first begin by modifying our table and including all ofthe verses of the Bible which are used today in defense of the”Trinity.” The reason for these modifications shallbe made clear in our analysis.

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.5 1 John 5:7The only verses in the whole Bible that explicitly ties God, Jesus,and the Holy Spirit in one “Triune” being is the verseof 1 John 5:7″For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”This is the type of clear, decisive, and to-the-pointverse I have been asking for. However, as I would later find out,this verse is now universally recognized as being a later “insertion”of the Church and all recent versions of the Bible, such as theRevised Standard Version the New Revised Standard Version, theNew American Standard Bible, the New English Bible, the PhillipsModern English Bible …etc. have all unceremoniously expungedthis verse from their pages. Why is this? The scripture translatorBenjamin Wilson gives the following explanation for this actionin his “Emphatic Diaglott.” Mr. Wilson says:”This text concerning the heavenly witness is not containedin any Greek manuscript which was written earlier than the fifteenthcentury. It is not cited by any of the ecclesiastical writers;not by any of early Latin fathers even when the subjects uponwhich they treated would naturally have lead them to appeal toit’s authority. It is therefore evidently spurious.”Others, such as the late Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong argued thatthis verse was added to the Latin Vulgate edition of the Bibleduring the heat of the controversy between Rome, Arius,and God’s people. Whatever the reason, this verse is now universallyrecognized as an insertion and discarded. Since the Bible containsno verses validating a “Trinity” therefore,centuries after the departure of Jesus, God chose to inspire someoneto insert this verse in order to clarify the true nature of Godas being a “Trinity.” Notice how mankind was being inspiredas to how to “clarify” the Bible centuries after thedeparture of Jesus (pbuh). People continued to put words in themouths of Jesus, his disciples, and even God himself with noreservationswhatsoever. They were being “inspired” (see chaptertwo).If these people were being “inspired” by God, I wondered,then why did they need to put these words into otherpeople’s mouths (in our example, in the mouth of John). Why didthey not just openly say “God inspired me and I will adda chapter to the Bible in my name”? Also, whydid God need to wait till after the departure of Jesus to “inspire”his “true” nature? Why not let Jesus (pbuh) say it himself?The great luminary of Western literature, Mr. Edward Gibbon,explainsthe reason for the discardal of this verse from the pages of theBible with the following words:”Of all the manuscripts now extant, above fourscore innumber, some of which are more than 1200 years old, the orthodoxcopies of the Vatican, of the Complutensian editors, of RobertStephens are becoming invisible; and the two manuscripts of Dublinand Berlin are unworthy to form an exception…In the eleventhand twelfth centuries, the Bibles were corrected by LanFrank,Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Nicholas, a cardinal and librarianof the Roman church, secundum Ortodoxam fidem. Notwithstandingthese corrections, the passage is still wanting in twenty-fiveLatin manuscripts, the oldest and fairest; two qualities seldomunited, except in manuscripts….The three witnesses have beenestablished in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus;the honest bigotry of the Complutensian editors; the typographicalfraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing of a crotchetand the deliberate falsehood, or strange misapprehension, of TheodoreBeza.” “Decline and fall of the Roman Empire,” IV, Gibbon,p. 418.Edward Gibbon was defended in his findingsby his contemporary, the brilliant British scholar Richard Porsonwho also proceeded to publish devastatingly conclusive proof thatthe verse of 1 John 5:7 was only first inserted by the Churchinto the Bible in the year 400C.E.(Secrets of Mount Sinai, JamesBentley, pp. 30-33).Regarding Porson’s most devastating proof, Mr. Gibbonlater said”His structures are founded in argument, enriched withlearning, and enlivened with wit, and his adversary neither deservesnor finds any quarter at his hands. The evidence of the threeheavenly witnesses would now be rejected in any court of justice;but prejudice is blind, authority is deaf, and our vulgar Bibleswill ever be polluted by this spurious text.”To which Mr. Bentley responds:”In fact, they are not. No modern Bible now contains theinterpolation.”Mr. Bentley, however, is mistaken. Indeed, just as Mr. Gibbonhad predicted, the simple fact that the most learned scholarsof Christianity now unanimously recognize this verse to be a laterinterpolation of the Church has not prevented the preservationof this fabricated text in our modern Bibles. To this day, theBible in the hands of the majority of Christians, the “KingJames” Bible, still unhesitantly includes this verse as the”inspired” word of God without so much as a footnoteto inform the reader that all scholars of Christianity of noteunanimously recognize it as a later fabrication.Peake’s Commentary on the Bible says”The famous interpolation after ‘three witnesses’ is notprinted even in RSVn, and rightly. It cites the heavenly testimonyof the Father, the logos, and the Holy Spirit, but is never usedin the early Trinitarian controversies. No respectable Greek MScontains it. Appearing first in a late 4th-cent. Latin text, itentered the Vulgate and finally the NT of Erasmus.”It was only the horrors of the great inquisitions which held backSir Isaac Newton from openlyrevealing these facts to all:”In all the vehement universal and lasting controversyabout the Trinity in Jerome’s time and both before and long enoughafter it, the text of the ‘three in heaven’ was never once thoughtof. It is now in everybody’s mouth and accounted the main textfor the business and would assuredly have been so too with them,had it been in their books… Let them make good sense of itwho are able. For my part I can make none. If it be said thatwe are not to determine what is scripture and what not by ourprivate judgments, I confess it in places not controverted, butin disputed places I love to take up with what I can best understand.It is the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankindin matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for thatreason to like best what they understand least. Such men may usethe Apostle John as they please, but I have that honor for himas to believe that he wrote good sense and therefore take thatto be his which is the best” Jesus, Prophet of Islam, Muhammad Ata’ Ur-Rahim, p. 156According to Newton, this verse firstappeared for in the third edition of Erasmus’s (1466-1536)New Testament.For all of the above reasons, we find that when thirty twobiblical scholars backed by fifty cooperating Christian denominationsgot together to compile the Revised Standard Version of the Biblebased upon the most ancient Biblical manuscripts available tothem today, they made some very extensive changes. Among thesechanges was the unceremonious discardal of the verse of 1 John5:7 as the fabricated insertion that it is. For more on the compilationof the RSV Bible, please read the preface of any modern copy ofthat Bible.Such comparatively unimportant matters as the description of Jesus(pbuh) riding an ass (or was it a “colt”, or was itan “ass and a colt”? see point 42 in the table of section2.2) into Jerusalem are spoken about in great details since theyare the fulfillment of a prophesy. For instance, in Mark 11:2-10we read:”And saith unto them, Go your way into the village overagainst you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall finda colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring [him].And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lordhath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. Andthey went their way, and found the colt tied by the door withoutin a place where two ways met; and they loose him And certainof them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing thecolt? And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: andthey let them go And they brought the colt to Jesus, and casttheir garments on him; and he sat upon him. And many spread theirgarments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees,and strawed [them] in the way And they that went before, and theythat followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that comethin the name of the Lord: Blessed [be] the kingdom of our fatherDavid, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.”Also see Luke 19:30-38 which has a similar detailed descriptionof this occurrence. On the other hand, the Bible is completelyfree of any description of the “Trinity”which is supposedly a description of the very nature of the onewho rode this ass, who is claimed to be the only son of God,and who allegedly died for the sins of all of mankind. I foundmyself asking the question: If every aspect of Christian faithis described in such detail such that even the description ofthis ass is so vividly depicted for us, then why is the same nottrue for the description of the “Trinity”? Sadly, however,it is a question for which there is no logical answer.Once again, here is the table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1, John 10:30	John 20:28, John.14:6, John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.6 John 1:1Another verse quoted in defense of the “Trinity”is the verse of John 1:1 :”In the beginning was the Word, and the Wordwas with God, and the Word was God.”When I first learned of this verse it appeared to me that I hadfinally found my elusive goal. However, after substantial researchinto Christian theological literature, I would later come to learnthat this verse too can not be interpreted to justify a “triune”God. My own experience has shown that this verse is the one mostpopularly quoted by most Christians in defense of the Trinity.For this reason I shall spend a little more time in it’s analysisthan in the analysis of the other verses.First of all, it is quite obvious from simply reading the aboveverse that even in the very best case, this verse speaks onlyof a “Duality” not a “Trinity.” Even the mostresolute conservative Christian will never claim to find in thisverse any mention whatsoever of a “merging” of a HolyGhost with God and “the Word.” So even if we were toaccept this verse at face value and just have faith, even then,we find ourselves commanded to believe in a “Duality”and not a “Trinity.” But let us see if this verse doesin fact even command us to believe in a “Duality.” Todo this we need to notice the following points:1) Mistranslation of the text:In the “original” Greek manuscripts (Did the discipleJohn speak Greek?), “The Word” is only described asbeing “ton theos”(divine/a god) and not as being “hotheos” (The Divine/The God).A more faithful and correct translation of this verse would thusread: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Wordwas with God, and the Word was divine” (If you read theNew World Translation of the Bible you will find exactly thiswording).Similarly, in “The New Testament, An American Translation”this verse is honestly presented as”In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was withGod, and the Word was divine.” The New Testament, An American Translation, Edgar Goodspeed andJ. M. Powis Smith, The University of Chicago Press, p. 173And again in the dictionary of the Bible, under the heading of”God” we read”Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated ‘the word waswith the God [=the Father], and the word was a divine being.'”The Dictionary of the Bible by John McKenzie, Collier Books, p.317In yet another Bible we read:”The Logos (word) existed in the very beginning,and the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine” The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, by Dr.James MoffattPlease also see “The Authentic New Testament” by HughJ. Schonfield and many others.If we look at a different verse, 2 Corinthians 4:4, we find theexact same word (ho theos) that was used in John1:1 to describe God Almighty is now used to describe the devil,however, now the system of translation has been changed:”the god of this world (the Devil) hath blinded the mindsof them which believe not.”According to the system of the previous verse and the Englishlanguage, the translation of the description of the Devil shouldalso have been written as “The God” with a capital “G.”If Paul was inspired to use the exact same wordsto describe the Devil, then why should we change it? Why is “TheGod” translated as simply “the god” whenreferring to the devil, while “divine” is translatedas the almighty “God” when referring to “TheWord”? Are we now starting to get a glimpse of how the “translation”of the Bible took place?Well, what is the difference between saying”theword was God,” and between saying “the word wasa god (divine)”? Are they not the same? Far from it!Let us read the bible:”I have said, Ye (the Jews) are gods; and all of you arechildren of the most High”Psalms 82:6:”And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I havemade you a god to Pharaoh”Exodus 7:1″the god of this world (the Devil) hath blinded the mindsof them which believe not.”2 Corinthians 4:4What does all of this mean? Let me explain.In the West, it is common when one wishes to praise someone tosay “You are a prince,” or “You are an angel”..etc. When someone says this do they mean that that person isthe son of the King of England, or a divine spiritual being? Thereis a very slight grammatical difference between saying “Youare a prince” and between saying “You are THEprince,” however, the difference in meaning is quite dramatic.Further, it is necessary when translating a verse to also takeinto account the meaning as understood by the people of that agewho spoke that language. One of the biggest problems with theBible as it stands today is that it forces us to look at ancientHebrew and Aramaic scriptures through Greek and Latin glassesas seen by people who are neither Jews, Greeks, nor Romans. Allof the so called “original” manuscripts of the NT availabletoday are written in Greek or Latin. The Jews had no trouble readingsuch verses as Psalms 82:6, and Exodus 7:1, while still affirmingthat there is only one God in existence and vehemently denyingthe divinity of all but God Almighty. It is the continuous filtrationof these manuscripts through different languages and culturesas well as the Roman Catholic church’s extensive efforts to completelydestroy all of the original Hebrew Gospels (see last quarter ofthis chapter) which has led to this misunderstanding of the verses.The Americans have a saying: “Hit the road men.” Itmeans “It is time for you to leave.” However, if a non-Americanwere to receive this command without any explanation then it isquite possible that we would find him beating the road with astick. Did he understand the words? Yes! Did he understand themeaning? No!In the Christian church we would be hard pressed to find a singlepriest or nun who does not address their followers as “mychildren.” They would say: “Come here my children”,or “Be wary of evil my children” … etc. What do theymean?A fact that many people do not realize is that around 200AD spokenHebrew had virtually disappeared from everyday use as a spokenlanguage. It was not until the 1880s that a conscious effort wasmade by Eliezer Ben-Yehudah to revive the dead language. Onlyabout a third of current spoken Hebrew and basic grammatical structurescome from biblical and Mishnaic sources. The rest was introducedin the revival and includes elements of other languages and culturesincluding the Greek and Arabic languages.Even worse than these two examples are cases when translationinto a different languages can result in a reversal ofthe meaning. For example, in the West, when someone loves somethingthey say “It warmed my heart.” In the MiddleEast, the same expression of joy would be conveyed with the words:”It froze my heart.” If an Mideasterner wereto greet a Westerner with the words: “It froze my heartto see you,” then obviously this statement would notbe greeted with a whole lot of enthusiasm from that Westerner,and vice versa. This is indeed one of the major reasons why theMuslims have been so much more successful in the preservationof their holy text than the Christians or the Jews; because thelanguage of the Qur’an has remained from the time of Muhammad(pbuh) to the present day a living language, the book itself hasalways been in the hands of the people (and not the “elite”),and the text of the book remains in the original language of Muhammad(pbuh). For this reason, a translator must not and should not”translate” in a vacuum while disregarding the cultureand traditions of the people who wrote these words. As we havejust seen, it was indeed quite common among the Jews to use theword “god” (divine) to convey a sense of supreme poweror authority to human beings. This system, however, was neverpopularly adopted by them to mean that these individuals werein any way omnipotent, superhuman, or equal to the Almighty.2) Basic message of John:Now that we have seen the correct translation of the verse ofJohn 1:1, let us go a little further in our study of the intendedmeaning of this verse. This verse was taken from the “Gospelof John.” The very best person to ask to explain what ismeant by a given statement is the author of that statement himself.So let us ask “John” what is his mental picture of Godand Jesus (pbuh) which he wishes to convey to us:”Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greaterthan his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that senthim.” John 13:16.So the author of John tells us that God is greater than Jesus.If the author of this Gospel did indeed wish us to understandthat Jesus and God are “one and the same,” then cansomeone be greater than himself? Similarly,”Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come[again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because Isaid, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.”John 14:28.Can someone “go” to himself? Can someone be “greater”than himself?”These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thySon also may glorify thee:”John 17:1.If John meant to tell us that “Jesus and God are one andthe same” then shall we understand from this verse that Godis saying to Himself “Self, glorify me so that I may glorifymyself”? Does this sound like this is the message of John?”While I (Jesus) was with them in the world, I kept themin thy (God’s) name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, andnone of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripturemight be fulfilled.” John 17:12.If the author of John wanted us to believe that Jesus and Godare one person then are we to understand from this verse thatGod is saying to Himself “Self, while I was in the worldI kept them in your name, self. Those who I gave to myself I havekept …”? Is this what the author intended us to understandfrom his writings?”Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me,be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thouhast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of theworld.” John 17:24.Similarly, did the author intend us to interpret this as “Self,I will that they also whom I have given myself be with me whereI am; that they my behold my glory which I have given myself,for I loved myself before the foundation of the world”?So, we begin to see that in order to understand the writings ofa given author, it is necessary to not take a single quotationfrom him in a vacuum and then interpret his whole message basedupon that one sentence (and a badly mistranslated version of thatsentence at that).3) Who wrote the “Gospel of John”?:The “Gospel of John” is popularly believed by the majorityof regular church-goers to be the work of the apostle John theson of Zebedee. However, when consulting Christianity’s more learnedscholars of Church history, we find that this is far from thecase. These scholars draw our attention to the fact that internalevidence provides serious doubt as to whether the apostle Johnthe son of Zebedee wrote this Gospel himself. In the dictionaryof the Bible by John Mckenzie we read”A. Feuillet notes that authorship here may be taken loosely.”Such claims are based on such verses as 21:24:”This is the disciple which testifieth of these things,and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.”?Did the apostle John write this about himself? Also see 21:20,13:23, 19:26, 20:2, 21:7, and 21:20-23. The “disciple whoJesus loved” according to the Church is John himself, butthe author of this gospel speaks of him as a different person.Further, The Gospel of John was written at or near Ephesusbetween the years 110 and 115 (some say 95-100) of the Christianera by this, or these, unknown author(s). According to R. H. Charles,Alfred Loisy, Robert Eisler, and other scholars of Christian history,John of Zebedee was beheaded byAgrippa I in the year 44 CE, long before the fourth Gospel waswritten. Did the Holy Ghost “inspire” the apostle John’sghost to write this gospel sixty years after he was killed? .In other words, what we have here is a gospel which is popularlybelieved to have been written by the apostle John, but which infact was not written by him. In fact no one really knows for certainwho wrote this gospel.”Since the beginning of the period of modern criticalstudy, however, there has been much controversy about [the Gospelof John’s] authorship, place of origin, theological affiliationsand background, and historical value” The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 2, AbingdonPress, p. 9324) Who “inspired” the author of this gospel to writethis verse?:The words of John 1:1 are acknowledged by most reputable Christianscholar of the Bible as the words of another Jew, Philo of Alexandria(20BC-50AD), who claimed no divine inspiration for them and whowrote them decades before the “gospel of John” was everconceived. Groliers encyclopedia has the following to say underthe heading “Logos”(“the word”):”Heraclitus was the earliest Greek thinker to make logosa central concept ……In the New Testament, the Gospel Accordingto Saint John gives a central place to logos; the biblical authordescribes the Logos as God, the Creative Word, who took on fleshin the man Jesus Christ. Many have traced John’s conception toGreek origins–perhaps through the intermediacy of eclectic textslike the writings of Philo of Alexandria.”T. W. Doane says:”The works of Plato were extensively studiedby the Church Fathers, one of whom joyfully recognizes in thegreat teacher, the schoolmaster who, in the fullness of time,was destined to educate the heathen for Christ, as Mosesdid the Jews. The celebrated passage : “In the beginningwas the Word, and the Word was with God, and theWord Was God” is a fragment of some Pagan treatise on thePlatonic philosophy, evidently written by Irenaeus.It is quoted by Amelius, a Pagan philosopher as strictly applicableto the Logos, or Mercury, the Word, apparently asan honorable testimony borne to the Pagan deity by abarbarian……..Wesee then that the title “Word” or “Logos,”being applied to Jesus, is another piece of Pagan amalgamationwith Christianity. It did not receive its authorized Christianform until the middle of the second century after Christ. Theancient pagan Romans worshipped a Trinity. An oracle is said tohave declared that there was ‘First God, then the Word, and withthem the Spirit’. Here we see the distinctly enumerated, God,the Logos, and the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, in ancient Rome,where the most celebrated temple of this capital – that of JupiterCapitolinus – was dedicated to three deities, which three deitieswere honored with joint worship.” From Bible Myths and their parallels in other religions, pp.375-376.6) What was “The Word”?”O people of the book! commit no excesses in your religion:nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son ofMary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, whichhe bestowed upon Mary, and a spirit preceding from him so believein Allah and his messengers. Say not “Three,” desist!It will be better for you, for Allah is one God. Glory be to him.Far exalted is he above having a son. To him belong all thingsin the heavens and the earth. And enough is Allah as a disposerof affairs.” The noble Qur’an, Al-Nissa(4):171In the Qur’an we are told that when God Almighty wills somethinghe merely says to it “Be” and it is.”Verily! Our (Allah’s) Word unto a thing when We intendit, is only that We say unto it “Be!” – and it is”The noble Qur’an, Al-Nahil(16):40 (please also read chapter 14)This is the Islamic viewpoint of “The Word.” “TheWord” is literally God’s utterance “Be.” This isheld out by the Bible where thirteen verses later in John 1:14we read:”And the Word was made flesh”.In the Qur’an, we read:”The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam;He created him from dust, then said to him: ‘Be.’ And he was.”The noble Qur’an, Aal-Umran(3):59.Regarding what is meant by Allah by “a spirit precedingfrom him” I shall simply let Allah Himself explain:”And [remember] when Allah said to the angles: ‘I shallcreate a human (Adam) from sounding clay, from alteredmud. So when I have fashioned him and have breathed into him ofmy spirit, then fall down in prostration before him'”The noble Qur’an, Al-Hijr(15):29For more on this topic, please read section 1.2.3.8Let us once again update our table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28, John.14:6, John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.7 John 10:30The third verse which Christians claim validates the doctrineof the trinity is the verse of John 10:30″I and my father are one.”This verse, however is quoted out of context. The complete passage,starting with John 10:23, reads as follows:”And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’sporch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him,How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tellus plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not:the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness ofme. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I saidunto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they followme: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, whichgave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluckthem out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.” John 10:23-30In divinity? In a holy “Trinity”? No!They are one in PURPOSE. Just as no one shall pluck them out ofJesus’ hand, so too shall no one pluck them out of God’s hand.Need more proof? Then read:”Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also whichshall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one;as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also maybe one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that theymay be one, even as we are one.” John 17:20-22Is all of mankind also part of the “Trinity”?Such terminology can be found in many other places, read forexample:”Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the membersof an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joinedto an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit,” 1 Corinthians 6:15-17And also”One God and Father of all, who is above all, and throughall, and in you all.”Ephesians 4:6And”For as the (human) body is one, and hath many members,and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized intoone body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond orfree; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For thebody is not one member, but many.”1 Corinthians 12:12-14Once we read the above verses and understand what the messagewas that Paul was trying to get across, then we can begin to understandhis words in such places as”There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are calledin one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism,One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,and in you all.” Ephesians 4:4″St. Paul” was speaking about Christian unity, not abouta plurality of gods merged into one body. As we shall soon see,he was completely ignorant of where his teachings would laterlead, and how decades later, they would be the foundations whichwould spawn the “Trinity” doctrine.Once again, here is our updated table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.8 Genesis 1:26In the Book of Genesis 1:26, we read:”And God said, Let us make man in our image, after ourlikeness: and let them have dominion over the fishof the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepethupon the earth.”In this and other verses of the Bible, God refers to Himself as”us” and “our,” etc. Does not the use of theterms “us” and “our” prove that the God whichcreated all of creation is not a singular entity but a Trinity?For the answer to this question please refer to chapter 14 whichdiscusses the use of plural pronouns with respect to God in boththe Bible as well as the Qur’an.And our table now looks like this:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.9 John 14:8-9Well, what about the verse”He that hath seen me hath seen the father.”Let us look at the context:”Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, andit sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long timewith you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hathseen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew usthe Father?” John 14:8-9Philip wanted to see God with his own eyes, but this is impossiblesince no one can ever do ever do that. The Bible says:”No man hath seen God at any time,”John 1:18″No man hath seen God at any time,”1 John 4:12So Jesus simply told him that his own actions and miracles shouldbe a sufficient proof of the existence of God without God havingto physically come down and let himself be seen every time someoneis doubtful. This is equivalent to for example

1. John 8:19: “Then said they unto him, Where is thyFather? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: ifye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.”
2. John 12:44 “Jesus cried and said, He that believethon me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.”
3. John 15:23 “He that hateth me hateth my Father also.”
4. Matthew 10:40-41 “He that receiveth you receivethme (Jesus), and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receivea prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in thename of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.”

If we want to insist that when Philip saw Jesus (pbuh), he hadactually physically seen God “the Father” becauseJesus “is” the father and both are one “Trinity,”and Jesus is the “incarnation” ofGod, then this will force us to conclude that John 1:18, 1 John4:12, ..etc. are all lies.Well, is Philip the only one who ever “saw the father”?Let us read:”Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he whichis of God, he hath seen the Father.” John 6:46Who is this who “is of God” and had seen the Fatheryou ask? Let us once again ask the Bible:”He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hearthem not, because ye are not of God.” John 8:47.And”Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that whichis good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evilhath not seen God” 3 John 1:11.Have all people who have done good also physicallyseen God?In “The New Catholic Encyclopedia” (Bearing theNihil Obstat and Imprimatur, indicating officialapproval) we get a glimpse of how the concept of the Trinitywas not introduced into Christianity until close to four hundredyears after Jesus (pbuh):”…….It is difficult in the second half of the 20thcentury to offer a clear, objective and straightforward accountof the revelation, doctrinal evolution, and theological elaborationof the Mystery of the trinity. Trinitarian discussion, Roman Catholicas well as other, present a somewhat unsteady silhouette. Twothings have happened. There is the recognition on the part ofexegetes and Biblical theologians, including a constantly growingnumber of Roman Catholics, that one should not speak ofTrinitarianismin the New Testament without serious qualification. Thereis also the closely parallel recognition on the part of historiansof dogma and systematic theologians that when one does speak ofan unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period ofChristian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century.It was only then that what might be called the definitive Trinitariandogma ‘One God in three Persons’ became thoroughly assimilatedinto Christian life and thought … it was the product of3 centuries of doctrinal development” (emphasis added).”The New Catholic Encyclopedia” Volume XIV, p. 295.They admit it!. Jesus’ twelve apostles lived and died neverhaving heard of any “Trinity” !Did Jesus leave his closest and dearest followers so completelyand utterly baffled and lost that they never even realized the”true” nature of God? Did he leave them in such blackdarkness that neither they nor their children, nor yet their children’schildren would ever come to recognize the “true” natureof the One they are to worship? Do we really want to allege thatJesus was so thoroughly incompetent in the discharge of his dutiesthat he left his followers in such utter chaos that it would takethem fully three centuries after his departure to finally piecetogether the nature of the One whom they are to worship? Why didJesus never, even once, just say “God, the Holy Ghostand I are three Persons in one Trinity. Worship all of us as one”?If he had only chosen to make just one such explicit statementto them he could have relieved Christianity of centuries of bitterdisputes, division, and animosity.Top Harpur writes in his book “For Christ’s Sake”:”What is most embarrassing for the church is the difficultyof proving any of these statements of dogma from the new Testamentdocuments. You simply cannot find the doctrine of the Trinityset out anywhere in the Bible. St. Paul has the highest view ofJesus’ role and person, but nowhere does he call him God. Nordoes Jesus himself anywhere explicitly claim to be the secondperson in the Trinity, wholly equal to his heavenly Father. Asa pious Jew, he would have been shocked and offended by such anIdea….(this is) in itself bad enough. But there is worse tocome. This research has lead me to believe that the great majorityof regular churchgoers are, for all practical purposes, tritheists.That is, they profess to believe in one God, but in reality theyworship three..”The Encyclopaedia Britannica states under the heading “Trinity”:”in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, andHoly Spirit as three persons in one Godhead Neither the word Trinitynor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament,…The Council of Nicaea in 325 stated the crucial formula for thatdoctrine in its confession that the Son is ‘of the same substance[homoousios] as the Father,’ even though it said very little aboutthe Holy Spirit. Over the next half century, Athanasiusdefended and refined the Nicene formula, and, by the end of the4th century, under the leadership of Basil of Caesarea, Gregoryof Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus (the Cappadocian Fathers),the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it hasmaintained ever since.”Once again, let us have a look at our table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

1.2.2.10 John 14:6Some people read:”I am the way, …no one comes to the Father, but throughme.”When reading this verse, for some reason some people see in ita confirmation of the Trinity. Although I can not see how theycan read either an explicit or even an implicit reference to theTrinity in this verse, still, due to it’s popularity it deservesto be studiedThere appear to be a sizable number of Christians who when readingthis verse interpret it to state that Jesus is God and that noone shall enter into heaven except if they worship Jesus. Forthis reason this verse should ideally be dealt with in section1.2.3 (The ‘Son of God’), however, since it is brought up so oftenin discussions of the Trinity it appears to be appropriate todiscuss it here.The popular perception that this verse claims that Jesus requiresour worship in order for us to receive salvation is not the intendedmeaning of this verse. However, in order for us to recognize thisfact it is necessary to study it’s context.If we were to back up a little and read from the beginning ofthis chapter, we would find that just before Jesus spoke thesewords, he said;”In my Father’s house are many mansions (dwelling places);if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to preparea mansion (a dwelling place) for you.” John 14:2The above statement is quite clear. It is in exact conformanceto the teachings of the Qur’an. In the Qur’an we are told howGod sent messengers to all tribes and nations. We are told thatthe basic message which was given to each of these tribes wasthe same: “Worship God alone and worship none else.”Some of the secondary details of this worship might differ fromone tribe or nation to the next according to God’s infinite wisdomand his knowledge of those people. It was made very clear to eachprophet that he was not to preach to anyone but his own people.It was further made clear to this messenger’s people that if theywere to obey him that they would receive the reward of God. Godwould not hold them accountable for what any other tribe or nationdid or did not do. This would continue until God’s last messenger,Muhammad (pbuh) would be sent to all mankind as the seal of theprophets.This is exactly what Jesus is saying here. He said that in God’smansion there are “many” rooms. Jesuswas sent to guide to only one of them. The countless otherrooms were reserved for other tribes and nations if they wouldobey their messengers. However, Jesus was telling his followersthat they need not worry themselves about the other rooms. Anyonefrom among his people who wished to enter into the room whichwas reserved for them could only do so if they followed Jesusand obeyed his command. So Jesus confirmed that he was going toprepare “a” mansion and not “all” the mansionsin “my Father’s house”.Further, the verse clearly states that Jesus was the “WAY”to a mansion. He did not say that he is the “DESTINATION”which would be the case if he were God. What else would we expecta prophet of God to say except “I am the’way’ to God’s mercy”? That is his job. That iswhat a prophet does. It is why God chose him inthe first place; in order to guide to the mercy of God. This isindeed confirmed in John 10:9 where Jesus tells us that he is”the door” to “the pasture.” In other words,he is the “prophet” who guides his people to “heaven”(see also Jn. 12:44). Once again, this is the message of Islam.Finally, remember”Not every one that says to me(Jesus); ‘Lord, Lord,’ willenter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father,who is in heaven.” Matthew.7:21Here, once again is our table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

 

1.2.2.11 John 20:28″Then saith he (Jesus) to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger,and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust [it]into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomasanswered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.”Once again, when I was first quoted this verse, I immediatelythought that I had at long last found my elusive goal. Finally,I had found a verse that explicitly claims that Jesus “is”God. However, it was not long after that, upon further researchinto Christian theological literature, I once again would cometo find that the true meaning of this verse was quite differentthan what a casual glance might have me believe.This verse is at best an example of an “implicit” affirmationof a “Duality.” This is because this verse appears toimply that Thomas thought that Jesus was God Almighty. The wordsare those of Thomas and not Jesus. However, there are a numberof problems with interpreting this verse to mean that Jesus isGod.Firstly, the phrase “Thomas answered” is somewhat misleadingsince nowhere before this verses was Thomas asked a question.Thomas’ words could more appropriately be referred to as an “outburst”or an “exclamation.” This is indeed why most translationsof the Bible (excluding the King James Version) follow this exclamationwith an “exclamation mark” as follows:”AndThomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God !”Christian scholars such as Theodore of Mopsuestia (c.350-428),the Bishop of Mopsuestia, interpreted this verse to not be directedat Jesus but at God “the Father.” Thus, it is similarin meaning to our modern exclamations of surprise “My God!”or “My Lord!.” In other words, this was an outburstdesigned to display surprise and disbelief rather than an affirmationthat Jesus was in fact God “the Father.”Secondly, the word translated in this verse as “God”is indeed the Greek “Ho theos” (The God), andnot “theos” (divine). However, when studying the historyof this verse in the ancient Biblical manuscripts from which ourmodern Bibles have been compiled we find an interesting fact,specifically, that the ancient Biblical manuscripts themselvesare not in agreement as to the correct form of this word. Forexample, the codex Bezae (or codex D) is a fifth century manuscriptcontaining Greek and Latin texts of the Gospels and Acts, whichwas discovered in the 16th century by Theodore Beza in a monasteryin Lyon. The predecessor of the codex Bezae and other churchmanuscriptsdo not contain the article “Ho” (“THE”) intheir text (The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Bart D. Ehrman,p. 266). What this means is that this verse in it’s original form,if it is to be understood to be addressing Jesus (pbuh) himself,only addresses him as “divine” and not as the “AlmightyGod.” Thus, it is similar in meaning to the meaning conveyedwhen prophet Moses is described as being a “god”in Exodus 7:1 (or when all Jews are described as being “gods”in Psalms 82:6, or when the devil is described as god in 2 Corinthians4:4), effectively reducing the exclamation of Thomas, if it wereindeed directed to Jesus, to “My lord the divine!,”or “my divine lord!”For a Muslim the matter is simple. The Qur’an very explicitlystates that Jesus was not forsaken by God to the Jews to be crucified,rather “it was made to appear so to them.” So the claimthat Jesus came to Thomas and asked him to witness the imprintof the nail in his hand and the spear in his side is, for a Muslim,clear evidence that this whole episode was a fabrication and laterinsertion. However, since a Muslim’s claim in this regard wouldnot be regarded as authoritative unbiased proof in this matter,therefore, it is necessary to use a little logic to arrive atthe truth.Since we now have on our hands a dispute between the ancientBiblicalmanuscripts themselves as to what Thomas actually said, therefore,let me pose this very simple request. Please get out a penciland a piece of paper, stop reading this book for the moment, andin your own words, please write down in about twenty words, veryconcisely but as directly as possible, what is the foremost obviousconclusion you are able to draw from Thomas’ outburst. Study yourwords carefully and write them down as if your very life and thesalvation of thousands of generations depend on what you are aboutto say. Make it clear and to the point. Have you finished?. Okay,let us continue.Let us now compare what you have just written with what the actualauthor of this Gospel had written when faced with the same requirementsI have just presented you with. If we were to continue readingfrom this same Gospel of John, we will find that immediately followingthis discourse between Jesus and Thomas depicted by the authorof “John,” the same author of “John” goeson to write:”And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presenceof his disciples, which are not written in this book: But theseare written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, theSon of God; and that believing ye might have life through hisname.”John 20:30-31If the author of John had recognized Thomas’ words to be a testimonythat “Jesus is God” and if the author interpreted Jesus’silence to be his approval of this claimed testimony, then Johnwould have written “that ye might believe that Jesus is theAlmighty God” and not “that ye might believe that Jesusis the Christ…” (For an explanation of the terms “sonof God” and “Christ” please readsections 1.2.3.2, and 1.2.3.8 which are coming up soon).To make this matter clearer let us first remember that Christianscholars tell us that the disciples did not fully comprehend whoJesus “was” until after the resurrection. They admitthat the Trinity was not “fully” incorporated into Christianityuntil three hundred years after the departure of Jesus (see restof chapter one). However, they then point to this verse in orderto exhibit to us how in the end the “true” nature ofJesus was made clear to the apostles. Now, we need to ask, whatis the single most important piece of information we have justlearned from Thomas’ outburst? What is the single most glaring,obvious, and outstanding, piece of information we have learnedfrom this statement? Any random missionary would tell us thatit is the fact that “Jesus is God!” In other words,the disciples have just spent many years with Jesus learning fromhim, following him, obeying him, and preaching his message. Suddenlyhe is allegedly taken away, crucified, buried, and then he isresurrected. Now Thomas sees him and according to the testimonyof “John,” he realizes that Jesus is “God the Father”who has come down to earth to walk among us. So what would welogically expect to be the foremost topic of most urgent and criticalconcern in the eyes of the author of “John”? Obviously,it should be the instillation within us of the “fact”that “Jesus is the ‘incarnation’ of GodAlmighty!” Does this not stand to reason? Why then does theauthor now casually disregard such an earth shattering observationand choose to simply return to describing Jesus with the benignterms of “son of God” and “Messiah/Christ”(seesections 1.2.3.2, and 1.2.3.8)? Did the author of this book notmake the connection which we have just made? Did the author of”John” have less understanding of what he was writingthan us? Think about it.Furthermore, some Christian scholars believe that the whole episodeof “doubting Thomas” is a later “insertion.””The Five Gospels” mark thispassage as being a complete fabrication and not the word of Jesus(pbuh).There are a number of other verses which could be brought up inthis comparison, however, the ones just quoted are the strongestand most often quoted verses. A number of other verses that arebrought up in such discussions shall be dealt with in chapter1.2.3 since they are more directly applicable to the concept ofthe divinity of Jesus or the claim that he is the physical/begottenson of God than they are to the discussion ofthe Trinity.Finally, let us now have a final look at our table:

–	Explicit Statement	Implicit Statement
God is ONE	Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18,Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14	–
God is TWO	John 1:1,John 10:30	John 20:28,John.14:6,John 14:8-9
God is THREE	1 John 5:7	Matthew 28:19,I Corinthians 12:4-6,II Corinthians 13:14,Jude 1:20-21
God is MANY	Genesis 1:26	–

As we can see from the table, there is not a single explicit orimplicit statement in the whole Bible confirming the “Trinity.”Indeed this was the very reason why it was decided so many centuriesago to insert the verse of 1 John 5:7 into the Bible. Becausewithout this fabricated verse there would be absolutely no earthlyway to prove that God is a Trinity. In such a case we would simplyhave to take the Church’s word for it. However, by the grace ofGod Almighty, this fabrication was not exposed by Muslims, itwas not exposed by a liberal Christian, it was not even exposedby a conservative Christian, rather it was exposed by thirtytwo conservative biblical scholars ofthe highest eminence backed by fifty cooperating Christian denominations.No matter what your church or denomination, chances are that itwas a member of the committee that compiled the RSV Bible and,among other changes, threw out 1 John 5:7 as a complete fabrication.Does it not seem a little strange that God did not choose to includejust one single explicit statement in the whole Bible where Hesaid “I am three gods in one.”?Does it not seem just a little strange that we have been reducedto picking and choosing implicit references to a “Duality”and trying to “piece together” the nature of God?Why did God feel the need to repeatedly explicitlystate throughout the Bible that He is ONE, yet when it comes timefor Him to explicitly state that He is THREE suddenly it is leftup to our intellect to “observe” or “gather”that He “must” be a “Trinity.”?Why was this matter not resolved back at the time of prophetsNoah or Abraham or Moses (pbut)? Whydo we not find a single Jew worshipping a Trinity?I know that there are still many unanswered questions, however,please bear with me, the picture shall begin to become much cleareronce we get into sections 1.2.3 and 1.2.4 by the will of Allah.1.2.2.12 A logical analysisAs we have seen at the very beginning of our analysis, Jesus (pbuh)has commanded us to “love the Lord thy God … with allthy mind,” Mark 12:30. We were also taught that “ForGod is not [the author] of confusion” 1 Corinthians 14:33.So, if God’s nature is not one of confusion, then it should notbe necessary to command us to simply “have faith” inthe Trinity because it is a “mystery.” Is this not fair?Is this not what the Bible and Jesus himself say? So let us useour minds and be inquisitive. Let us ask questions so that wemay indeed be able to truthfully claim that we have loved God”with all our minds.”Now, most Christians today are taught that because of Adam,all of humanity has inherited sin. This sin was so great thatit could not be forgiven by any normal means. This sin was sogreat that God could not simply say “You are all forgiven.”This sin was so great that even the sacrifice of a sinless mortalwould not do. This sin was so great that it was necessary forGod Almighty to offer up His only begotten son as the only possiblepurifying sacrifice for the sins of humanity. The only possibleway for God to forgive humanity this tremendous sin was to havehis son delivered to his mortal enemies so that they might beathim, spit on him, whip him, strip him, cut him, humiliate him,hang him up on the cross, and finally kill him. Inthis manner, God would finally be able to grant us the forgivenessHe so wishes to bestow upon us. (1 Corinthians 15:3 “Christdied for our sins”, Romans 5:6 “Christ died forthe ungodly” etc.)However, when we look closely at this picture we find a numberof problems. For example, if Jesus (pbuh) is part of a divineTrinity which makes up the essence of God Almighty,and if this God is ONE God and not THREE gods, and if Jesus (pbuh)died on the cross, then what happened to God Almighty?.Did the Trinity die also, or was a third of theTrinity ripped away from the whole, then tortured, killed, andsent to hell for three days, while the remaining two thirds (ofGod?) remained in it’s crippled form a safe distance away? Whowas overseeing the heavens and the earth while all of this washappening? A crippled Trinity? No one?If I am made up of heart, mind, and soul, and one of them dies;what happens to the rest of me? Are they ONE or THREE? If God,Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are three names for the same being,(definition of the “Trinity” required by Isaiah 43:10-11and many other verses) and not three separate gods, then the “deathof Jesus” is just another way of saying “the death ofGod the ‘Father’,” which is also another way of saying “thedeath of the Holy Ghost.”Some members of the clergy will object that it was not Jesus “perse” who died, but rather it was only “his human form”that died. His “godly” form was not affected. It isdescribed as one describes someone removing his coat. This leavesus with a dilemma, because it leaves us with one of two cases:1) Either Jesus (pbuh) “himself” did NOT die,but only shed his earthly body (as it were), and in this casewe must ask, where then is the great sacrifice in this sheddingof a useless shell? Did we not just agree a few minutes ago thatthe sacrifice of a sinless mortal was not sufficient in orderto erase the sins of all of humanity? Did we not just claim thatit must be a sinless “GOD” that must die? How then isJesus’ shedding of this useless mortal shell which is not hisactual essence an ultimate sacrifice in atonement for all of mankind’ssins? How is it any different than the sacrifice of any normalhuman being? Did the death of Jesus’ coat atone for the sins ofall mankind? Can Jesus not simply make one thousand more human”shells” for himself to inhabit? Is his discarding ofone of them an “ultimate sacrifice for the sins of all humanity”?2) Or, Jesus (pbuh) “himself” died, inwhich case, since he is claimed to be part of the “Trinity”,and the “Trinity” is claimed to be ONE god, not three(required by Isaiah 43:10-11, Deut. 4:35, 4:39, 1 Kings 8:60,Isaiah 45:5 and many other verses), then God, Jesus, and the HolyGhost are all claimed to have died, since they are all”the same essence.” Further, if all three are indeedONE God then the death of this one God contradicts many versessuch as:”But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, andan everlasting king.” Jeremiah 10:10Also, if the giver of life is dead then who shall bring Him backto life? The only way out of this dilemma is to accept the truth,that Jesus (pbuh) was not God but only an elect messenger of God.Remember when Jesus (pbuh) is alleged to have died?:”And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus,he gave up the ghost”Luke 23:46When people die they go to their Lord to be judged. If Jesus (pbuh)was, as claimed, a part of a Trinity and the Trinityis only ONE god (as required by the above verses), then Jesuswas with God in a Trinity before his death.It was only after his death that he was claimed to haveleft God, died, and gone down into hell for threedays. However, this verse tells us a completely different story.It claims that Jesus’ essence was somewhere otherthan already with God while he was on earth (otherwise it wouldnot have to go to Him) and was now going to God.Also read John 17:11: “…I come to thee. Holy Father.”And John 17:13: “And now come I to thee”…etc.Sadly enough, most Christians are taught to brush off these matterswith words like “It is incomprehensible, that is why it mustbe true,” or “believe blindly or you will lose yoursoul.”? Have we so soon forgotten “For God is notof confusion” 1 Corinthians14:33 ? Have we so soon forgotten “thou shalt love theLord thy God … with all thy mind,” Mark 12:30?.Many missionaries attempt to prove that God is “three”by drawing analogies between God and His creation. They say: “Thereare three members in a family, father, mother and children. Thereare three states for water, ice, water and steam, etc. Don’t yousee? God is three!”Well, if this is the case then we need to notice that “Eachperson gets only one life. There is only one sun. There is onlyone earth. Each person only has one heart and one mind, etc.”Similarly, “We all have only two eyes. We all have only twoears. Days are split into two parts, morning and night, etc.”As we can see, following such tactics is indeed a frivolous pursuit.Such examples could be extended forever. We could say “Thereare four seasons in every year. There are five fingers on eachhand. The Jews were only allowed by God to work for six days.There are seven days in every week, …” but you get thepicture.Now, God Almighty is claimed to have “begotten” Jesus(pbuh). He is claimed to be the “father” of Jesus. Naturallya father is present before he “begets” his son (no matterhow you wish to define “beget”). Before Jesus (pbuh)was “begotten,” was the “Trinity”a “Duality”? Was God complete?Explain Isaiah 43:10-11. If Jesus (pbuh) was “begotten”then he is not eternal, but the definition of the Trinity whichwas first put together in 325 C.E. when the Trinity was firstofficially defined requires the “co-eternity” of Godand Jesus (pbuh) (see below).If Jesus is one face of a “Trinity” andthe Trinity is one god not many, then anyone who sees Jesushas seen God, however, John 1:18 says”No man hath seen God at any time.”And we have just read in the Athanasian creed (Nicean creed) that”God” is a “Trinity” made up of “theFather,” the “Son,” and the “Holy Ghost.”We also read therein that God is not three gods but one God. Ifthis is the case then anyone who has seen Jesus has seen “God.”But the Bible tells us that this is not the case.Jesus (pbuh) claims to not even know when “that day”is”But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, notthe angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”Mark 13:32.Is he not part of God? Is the “Trinity”not ONE god? The fact that one “personality”of God has knowledge not available to the other “two thirds”is a clear indication that they are distinct and separate beings,and not three faces of one being.There are many such questions to be raised about this supposedTrinity which defy common sense. When someone lovesGod “with all thy mind” and they “Proveall things; hold fast that which is good”are they not presented with countless contradictions regardingthe “Trinity”? I am speaking about the logic of Jesus(pbuh) here and not blind faith. Jesus is beseeching us to useour minds but we would rather follow others who demand blind faith.Jesus (pbuh) tells us”If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Fatherwill love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode withhim.”John 14:23.Sadly, the same people who love him dearly have now been taughtthat in order to love Jesus they must completely disregard everythinghe ever taught his followers and must follow others who are betterable to explain his message than himself. In effect, his wordshave been totally abandoned (see below).”Say: ‘O people of the Book! exceed not in your religionthe bounds [of what is proper], trespassing beyond the truth,nor follow the vain desires of people who went astray in timesgone by, who misled many, and strayed [themselves] from the straightpath.'” The noble Qur’an, Al-Maida(5):77

1.2.2.13 On “steam, water, and ice “If I have three balls of clay and I press them together into oneball then they become ONE but now it is impossible to retrievethe original three exactly as they were originally.If I have three bricks and I stack them above each other thenI can separate them, but I can not call the three bricks ONE brick.By far, the most common analogy given for the “Trinity”by the church is that of the three forms of water, specifically,ice, liquid, and steam. They say, just as water is “one”but with three “states” or three “forms,”so too is God Almighty one but with three states.On the face of it this appears to be quite a compelling argument.So let us apply it to a few verses of the Bible in order to seewhether it holds up to scrutiny and is actually endorsed by theBible. In other words, it is necessary to see whether the Bibleitself actually confirms such a picture of God. Only then canwe accept or reject this analogy.If I have a cup of water which can become steam, liquid, or ice,then it is not possible for me to drink the “liquid”while the “ice” and “steam” remain insidethe glass. It is not possible for the “liquid” to beseechthe ice to save it from being drunk while the ice stayed a safedistance away and was not itself drunk. This is simple logic.In a similar manner, if God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are allmerely three “personalities” or three “states”for one being, namely God Almighty, then it is not possible forone “personality” of God to DIEwhile the other two remained a safe distance away unharmed bydeath (Mark 15:37, John 19:33, Romans 5:6,…etc.).Some will then solve this dilemma, as seen in the previous section,by claiming that Jesus (pbuh) did not actually “die,”rather, he simply shed his earthly “skin.” His actualessence was not killed. In this case it is necessaryto ask: where then is the great sacrifice? If one of us has fivethousand coats, and he takes one off and throws it in the firethen puts on a different one and says: “I did this as anultimate sacrifice for you,” is this truly an ultimate sacrificeif he can simply create one thousand more earthly “skins”to inhabit in place of the one he shed? Does his taking off ofhis coat and putting on a new one after three days “atone”for the sins of all of the “inherently wicked and sinfulmankind” from the beginning of time? “And thou shaltlove the Lord thy God … with all thy mind … this is the firstcommandment” Mark 12:30There are many other situations in the Bible that contradict thisanalogy and the theory of “three” gods. For example:Would it be logical to picture the “ice” form of a bucketof water praying to the “steam” form ofitself (e.g. Luke 6:12). Further, did water startout as liquid and then decide to “beget” for itselfanother personality as “ice” and then add on a thirdpersonality as “steam”? Did God start out with one “personality”and then one day “beget” for Himself multiplepersonalities to keep Him company?. Does He usually speak to Hisother personalities and beseech them for salvation? (Matthew 27:46)Did He sacrifice one of His personalities to “save”mankind? Do some of His personalities have knowledge not availableto others (Mark 13:32)? Are some of His “personalities”more powerful than others (John 14:28)? Are some of his personalitiessubmissive to others (Luke 22:41-44)? Is this our mental pictureof God? How will we answer Him on the day of judgment when Heasks us about these claims we have made against Him?In order to demonstrate the absurdity of this “ice, water,and steam” theory, let us use the following analogy:Military/Student Joe:Assume that “Joe” is a university student who is alsoserving in the army. In such a case we might be able to say thatthere are two “personalities” to Joe, a “student”personality and a “military” personality. Does thismean that it is logical to imagine “student Joe” humblinghimself before “military Joe” and appealing to him tohave mercy upon him while “military Joe” sat some distanceaway accepting “student Joe’s” pleas and consideringwhether to grant them or not (Matthew 26:39)?Further, if some killers attacked “student Joe” whilehe was in the university, would it be logical for us to claimthat “student Joe” ran for the telephone and pleadedwith “military Joe” to quickly come and save him? Wouldit be logical to say that “military Joe” did not answerthis plea and “student Joe” was murdered in the universitywhile “military Joe” remained safe and unharmed inthe military base?Continuing, according to the Bible, God and Jesus are claimedto not be equal in knowledge nor in power (Mark 13:32, John 14:28,etc.). So is it then logical in the above analogy to claim that”military Joe” is stronger than “student Joe”or that “student Joe” is smarter than “militaryJoe”?It is always important when we are presented with a theory or”explanation” regarding the claimed “Trinity”to carefully analyze it and apply it to the Bible and test itthoroughly before accepting it. It is not at all acceptable tosay I can not explain it nor prove it, neither does the Bibleexplicitly command me to have blind faith in this matter, yetsince the church told me to do so, therefore, I shall do so. Indeed,Jesus (pbuh) wanted his followers to think, analyze,study, ask questions, and interrogate. Thisis his very FIRST commandment (Mark 12:30). Indeed, theBible teaches us “For God is not [the author] of confusion”1 Corinthians 14:33.Let us conclude this section with a very eloquent example whichwas once presented by the British scholar Richard Porson. Oneday, Porson was discussing the “Trinity” with a Trinitarianfriend when a buggy containing three men passed by. “There,”Porson’s friend exclaimed “is an illustration of the Trinity.”Porson replied “No, you must show me one man in threebuggies, if you can.”For the historical details of how such a doctrine was developedin the first place, please read section 1.2.5 which is comingup soon. But first:1.2.3: The “son of God”And unto Him belongswhosoever is in the heavens and the earth and those who dwellin His presence do not scorn to worship Him nor do they weary.They glorify Him night and day; They flag not. Or have they chosengods from the earth who raise the dead If there were therein godsbesides Allah then verily both (the heavens and the earth) wouldhave gone to ruin. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Thronefrom all they ascribe (unto Him). He is not questioned as to thatwhich He does, but they will be questioned. Or have they chosenother gods besides Him, say: Bring your proof (of their godhead),this is the reminder of those with me and those before me, butmost of them know not the truth so they are averse (to it). Andwe sent no messenger before you but we inspired him (saying):There is no god save Me (Allah) so worship Me. And they say: TheCompassionate has taken unto himself a son. Nay! but (they) arebut honored servants. They speak not until He has spoken and theyobey His command. He knows what is before them and what is behindthem and they cannot intercede except for those whom He acceptsand they quake for awe of Him. And whosoever among them says:I am a god other than Allah, the same shall We reward with Hell.Thus do We reward the wrong doers.”The Qur’an, Al-Anbia(21):19-29″And the angles said ‘O Mary, Allah givesyou glad tidings of a Word from Him, his name is Messiah, Jesusson of Mary, High honored in this world and the next, of thosenear stationed to Allah.”The noble Qur’an, A’al-Umran(3):40.We as Muslims do not differ with Christians in thefact that Jesus (pbuh) was indeed born miraculously without ahuman father. Muslims only differ with Christians in the Christian’sclaim that Jesus (pbuh) must have a father. Trinitariansbelieve that if he has no human father then his father mustbe God. Muslims believe that he had no father whatsoever,and this was the essence of his miraculous birth.”The similitude of Jesus before Allah isas that of Adam, he created him from dust, then said to him: ‘Be’and he was” The noble Qur’an, A’al-Umran(3):59.”They say: Allah has taken a son. Glorifiedbe He! He has no needs! His is all that is in the heavens andthat is in the earth. You have no warrant for this, do you sayregarding Allah that which you know not?” The noble Qur’an, Yunus(10):68″The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a messenger,messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. Andhis mother was a saintly woman. They both used to eat (earthly)food. See how we make the signs clear for them, then see how theyare deluded!” The noble Qur’an, Al-Maidah (5):75.”And this is life eternal, that they mightknow you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”John 17:3.Notice the above words of the Bible: “YOUthe ONLY true God.” Most Christians always manageto see a hidden abstract meaning for the verses of the Bible.Even when they read the above verse they always manage to understandsomething totally different than that which they are reading.They always interpret the word “you” to be “we,”and thus, understand the above verse to say “WE theonly true god.” Jesus (pbuh) is obviously talking to a distinctlydifferent entity than himself and telling that entity that HeALONE is the only true God. Is Jesus (pbuh) incapable ofsaying “I the only true God” or “We the only trueGod” if that is what he meant? Can we see the difference?Mr. Tom Harpur says in the prefaceto his book:”The most significant development since 1986in this regard has been the discovery of the title “Son ofGod” in one of the Qumran papyri (Dead Sea Scrolls) usedin relation to a person other than Jesus…..this simply reinforcesthe argument made there that to be called the Son of God in aJewish setting in the first century is not by any means the sameas being identical with God Himself.” For Christ’s Sake, pp. xii.(please read chapter 7 for more on the Dead SeaScrolls)With regard to your second comment, Mr. J, I am not”implying” anything. The Qur’an clearly statesin no uncertain terms that God “created” Jesus.Let us quote from the unbiased Webster’s dictionary as to whatis “implied” by the word “begotten”: “Toprocreate as the father, sire, to produce as an effect or an outgrowth.”Muslims feel such claims with regard to God Almighty are anabomination.1.2.3.1 Anglican bishops declare thatJesus is not GodMuslims are not the only ones who believe that Jesus(pbuh) is mortal and not a god. The Jews also believe this, inaddition to the very first groups of Christianity suchas the Ebonites, the Cerinthians, the Basilidians, the Capocratians,and the Hypisistarians. The Arians, Paulicians and Goths alsoaccepted Jesus (pbuh) as a prophet of God. Even in the modernage there are churches in Asia, in Africa, the Unitarian church,the Jehovah’s witnesses, and even the majority of today’s AnglicanBishops do not worship Jesus (pbuh) asGod.In the British newspaper the “Daily News”25/6/84 under the heading “Shock survey of Anglican Bishops”We read”More than half of England’s Anglican Bishopssay that Christians are not obliged to believe that Jesus Christwas God, according to a survey published today. The pole of 31of England’s 39 bishops shows that many of them think that Christ’smiracles, the virgin birth and the resurrectionmight not have happened exactly as described in the Bible. Only11 of the bishops insisted that Christians must regard Christas both God and man, while 19 said it was sufficient to regardJesus as ‘God’s supreme agent'”But what is a messenger of God? Is he not “God’ssupreme agent” ?. This is indeed what God Himself hasalready told us in the noble Qur’an 1400 years ago, and exactlywhat Jesus (pbuh) himself testified to in the Bible:”And this is life eternal, that they mightknow thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hastsent.”John 17:3Astounding, isn’t it? With every passing day, themost learned among the Christian community are slowly recognizingthe truth and drawing closer and closer to Islam. These are notMuslims who issued this statement. These are not “liberal”Christians. These are the most learned and most highly esteemedmen of the Anglican Church. These men have dedicated their wholelives to the study of the religion of Jesus, and their study hasdriven them to the truth which God had already revealed to themin the Qur’an 1400 years ago: That Jesus was not God. That Godis not a Trinity. And that the stories of the ministry of Jesusin the Bible have been extensively tampered with by the handsof mankind.”And when Allah said: O Jesus, son of Mary!Did you say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods besideAllah? he said: Be You glorified. It was not mine to utter thatto which I had no right. If I used to say it, then You knew it.You know what is in my [innermost] self but I know not what isin Yours. Truly! You, only You are the Knower of things hidden.I spoke unto them only that which You commanded me, (saying):Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord, and I was a witness overthem while I dwelt among them, and when You took me You were theWatcher over them, and You are Witness over all things.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Maidah(5):116-118The Church, as Heinz Zahrnt put it “put wordsinto the mouth of Jesus which he never spoke and attributed actionsto him which he never performed.” One of those who hasshown that most of what the church says about Jesus is baselessis Rudolph Augustein in his book “Jesus the Son of Man.”Another very comprehensive study of this matter can be found inthe book “The Myth of God Incarnate” which waswritten by seven theologian scholars in England in 1977 and editedby John Hick. Their conclusion in this matter is that Jesus was”a man approved by God, for a special role within thedivine purpose, and….. the later conception of him as God incarnate… is a mythological or poetic way of expressing his significancefor us.” See also John Mackinnon Robertson’s “Christianityand Mythology” T.W Doane’s “The Bible Myths andtheir Parallels in Other Religions” (A good summary ofthese studies is available in M.F. Ansarei, “Islam andChristianity in the Modern World”).A University of Richmond professor, Dr. Robert Alley,after considerable research into newly found ancient documentsconcludes that”….The (Biblical) passages where Jesustalks about the Son of God are later additions…. what the churchsaid about him. Such a claim of deity for himself would not havebeen consistent with his entire lifestyle as we can reconstruct.For the first three decades after Jesus’ death Christianity continuedas a sect within Judaism. The first three decades of the existenceof the church were within the synagogue. That would have beenbeyond belief if they (the followers) had boldly proclaimed thedeity of Jesus.”Is there any confirmation of this in the Bible, yes!If we were to read the Bible we would find that long after thedeparture of Jesus, his faithful followers continued to “keepup their daily attendance at the Temple” (Acts 2:46) It wouldbe beyond belief to imagine that had Jesus indeed preached tohis apostles that he was God, and if Jesus had indeed commandedthem to forsake the commandments, that they would then disregardall of this and continue to worship in a Jewish synagogue on adaily basis, let alone the great Temple itself. It is furtherbeyond belief that the Jews of the Temple would stand idly byand allow them to do this if they were preaching the total cancellationof the law of Moses and that Jesus was God.Can any Trinitarian Christian, even in their wildestfantasies, imagine that the Jews in an orthodox Jewish synagoguewould stand idly by while he took out his cross andprayed to Jesus in the midst of their synagogue and was publiclycalling others to worship Jesus and forsake the commandments?How much more preposterous to imagine that they would have nothingto say to someone who did that in their most sacred of all synagogues,the Temple, on a daily basis yet. This is further evidence insupport of the Qur’an, that Jesus only called his followers toa continuation of the religion of Moses and not byany means to the total cancellation and destruction of that law.In the previous section, we read the following versesof the Bible:

1. “Know therefore this day, and consider[it] in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above,and upon the earth beneath: [there is] none else.”Deuteronomy 4:39.
2. “Thou shalt have no other gods beforeme.” Exodus 20:3
3. “For thou shalt worship no other god:for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:”Exodus 34:14
4. “Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD,and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believeme, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no Godformed, neither shall there be after me. I, [even] I, [am] theLORD; and beside me [there is] no savior.”Isaiah 43:10-11.
5. “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel,and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am]the last; and beside me [there is] no God.”Isaiah 44:6
6. “That they may know from the rising ofthe sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I[am] the LORD, and [there is] none else.”Isaiah 45:6
7. “For thus saith the LORD that createdthe heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; hehath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it tobe inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.”Isaiah 45:18.
8. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all theends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.”Isaiah 45:22

Now we should begin to ask ourselves: If there wasno god before or after God Almighty, then how wasJesus (pbuh) “begotten” as a god? The answeris: he was not. He was a mortal man, not a god. We even have thetestimony of the majority of today’s Anglican Bishopsin defense of this basic truth. If we want the testimony of atrustworthy witness then how much more trustworthy a witness shallwe ever find than the majority of the most learned and respectedconservative Christians of the Anglican Church?The Bible only preaches that Jesus is God and thatGod is a Trinity to those who do not know it’s innermost detailsand the truth of the history of the Church as these men have cometo know it. But let us move on in our study of the Biblical versesso that we can see only a small sampling of the evidence thathas made the truth clear to these men.1.2.3.2 How many “Sons” does God have?Many people tell us “but the Bible clearly saysthat Jesus is the Son of God. How can you say that Jesus is notGod’s only begotten son when Jesus says it so clearly in blackand white in the Bible?” Well, first of all, as seen in theprevious section, we first need to know the language of his people,the language of the Jews to whom he was speaking. Let us see howthey understood this proclamation.Let us begin by asking: How many sons does the Bibletell us that God Almighty has?

1. Jacob is God’s sonand firstborn: “Israel is my son, even my firstborn”Exodus 4:22.

1. Solomon is God’s son”He shall build an house for my name, and I will establishthe throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, andhe shall be my son”: 2 Samuel 7:13-14.

1. Ephraim is God’sfirstborn:”for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.”Jeremiah 31:9 (who is God’s firstborn? Israel or Ephraim?).

1. Adam is the son ofGod “Adam, which was the son of God.”Luke 3:38.

1. Common people (youand me) are the sons of God: “Ye are the children of theLORD your God” Deuteronomy 14:1. “For as manyas are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”Romans 8:14. “But as many as received him, to them gavehe power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believeon his name:” John 1:12. “That ye may be blamelessand harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst ofa crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights inthe world;” Philippians 2:15. “Behold, what mannerof love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be calledthe sons of God: … now are we the sons of God” 1 John3:1-2. “When the morning stars sang together, and allthe sons of God shouted for joy?” Job 38:7. “Againthere was a day when the sons of God came to present themselvesbefore the LORD,” Job 2:1. “Now there was a daywhen the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,”Job 1:6. “when the sons of God came in unto the daughtersof men,” Genesis 6:4. “That the sons of God sawthe daughters of men that they [were] fair” Genesis 6:2

As we can see, the use of the term “son of God”when describing normal human beings was not at all an uncommonpractice among Jesus’ people.Well then, was Jesus the only begotten sonof God? Read Psalms 2:7 “I will declare the decree: the LORD hathsaid unto me (King David, King), Thouart my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”.Indeed, the Jews are even referred to as much morethan this in the Bible, and this is indeed the very trait whichJesus (pbuh) held against them. When the Jews picked up stonesto stone Jesus (pbuh) he defended himself with the following words”Jesus answered them, Is it not written inyour law, ‘I said, Ye are gods?’ If he called them gods, untowhom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken…”John 10:34:(he was referring to Psalms 82:6 “I havesaid, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High..”)As we can see from these and many other verses like them, “sonof God” in the language of the Jews wasa very innocent term used to describe a loyal servant of God.Whether the translators and editors chose to write it as “Sonof God” (with a capital S) in reference to Jesus and “sonof God” (with a small S) in reference to everyone else doesnot diminish the fact that in the original language, both casesare exactly the same. Are we beginning to see what drove the mostlearned men of the Anglican Church to recognize the truth? Butlet us move on.Grolier’s encyclopedia, under the heading “JesusChrist,” says:”During his earthly life Jesus was addressedas rabbi and was regarded as a prophet. Some of his words, too,place him in the category of sage. A title of respect for a rabbiwould be “my Lord.” Already before Easterhis followers, impressed by his authority, would mean somethingmore than usual when they addressed him as “my Lord.”….it is unlikely that the title “Son of David” was ascribedto him or accepted by him during his earthly ministry. “Sonof God,” in former times a title of the Hebrew kings (Psalms2:7), was first adopted in the post-Easter church as an equivalentof Messiah and had no metaphysical connotations (Romans 1:4).Jesus was conscious of a unique filial relationship with God,but it is uncertain whether the Father/Son language (Mark 18:32;Matt. 11:25-27 par.; John passim) goes back to Jesus himself”.There seems to be only two places in the Bible whereJesus (pbuh) refers to himself as “son of God.”They are in John chapters 5 and 11. Hastings in “The dictionaryof the Bible” says: “Whether Jesus used it of himselfis doubtful.” Regardless, we have already seen what is meantby this innocent title. However, Jesus is referred to as the “sonof Man” (literally: “Human being”)81 times in the books of the Bible. In the Gospel of Barnabas,we are told that Jesus (pbuh) knew that mankind would make hima god after his departure and severely cautioned his followersfrom having anything to do with such people.Jesus was not the son of a human man (according toboth the Bible and the Qur’an). However, we find him constantlysaying “I am the son of man.” Why?. It was because inthe language of the Jews, that is how you say “I am a humanbeing.”What was he trying to tell us by constantly repeatingand emphasizing to us throughout the New Testament “I ama human being,” “I am a human being,” “I ama human being”?. What had he foreseen? Think about it!.Do Christians emphasize this aspect of Jesus? TheNew Testament Greek word translated as “son” are “pias”and “paida” which mean “servant,” or “sonin the sense of servant.” These are translated to “son”in reference to Jesus and “servant” in reference toall others in some translations of the Bible (see below). As weare beginning to see, one of the most fundamental reasons whyJesus (pbuh) is considered God is due to extensive mistranslation.We shall see more and more examples of this throughout this book.Islam teaches that Jesus (pbuh) was a human being,not a god. Jesus (pbuh) continually emphasized this to his followersthroughout his mission. The Gospel of Barnabasalso affirms this fact. Once again, Grolier’s encyclopedia says:”…Most problematical of all is the title”Son of Man.” This is the only title used repeatedlyby Jesus as a self-designation, and there is no clear evidencethat it was used as a title of majesty by the post-Easter church.Hence it is held by many to be authentic, since it passes thecriterion of dissimilarity.”1.2.3.3 Because God was his “Father”?Is Jesus (pbuh) a divine son of Godbecause he called God “Father”? Well, how do all Christiansrefer to Him? What does Jesus himself have to tell us in thisregard? Let us read”That ye may be the children of your Fatherwhich is in heaven…” Matthew 5:45and “Be ye therefore perfect,even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48:…etc.There are countless verses in the Bible to thiseffect.To understand what is meant by the reference to “Father”we need only read John 8:42:”Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father,ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neithercame I of myself, but he sent me.”So the love of God and His prophets is what makesGod someone’s “father.” Similarly,”Ye are of your father the devil, and thelusts of your father ye will do.” John 8:44Obviously neither the Devil nor God is the physicalfather of any of them. The term “Father” in that dayand age was used by the Jews in the same sense that Christiansuse the word “father” today to address a priest. Itwas not meant to be taken literally. Otherwise, the Bible wouldbear witness that every believer in Jesus (pbuh) is also the “physical”son of God.Further, please note that Joseph is called a “father”to Pharaoh in Genesis 45:8, and Job is called the “father”of the poor in Job 29:16. Once we read all of this we begin tounderstand how the Jews used to understand the reference to GodAlmighty as “Father.”1.2.3.4 Because he performed miracles?Well then, is Jesus the son of Godbecause he raised the dead? If so, then what about Ezekielwho is said to have raised many more dead bodies than Jesus everdid. Ezekiel is said to have raised a whole city from the dead(Ezekiel 37:1-9)If we are looking for Godly powers and miracles asproof of godliness then what about Joshua who is said to havestopped the sun and moon for one whole day: (Joshua 10:12-13).Can anyone but God Almighty do this?Elisha is said to have raised the dead,resurrected himself, healed a leper, fed a hundred people withtwenty barley loaves and a few ears of corn, and healed a blindman: (2 Kings 4:35, 13:21, 5:14, 4:44, and 6:11.)Elijah is said to have raised the dead,and made a bowl of flour and a jar of oil inexhaustible for manydays (1 Kings 17:22 and 14.)To say nothing of Moses (pbuh) and hiscountless miracles. Of his parting of the sea, of his changingof a stick into a serpent, of his changing of water into blood,..etc.And so forth……Even Jesus (pbuh) himself tells us that miraclesby themselves do not prove anything:”For there shall arise false Christs, andfalse prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuchthat, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect”Matthew 24:24So even false Christs can supply great wonders andmiracles of such magnitude that even the most knowledgeable amongmen shall be deceived.Jesus (pbuh) had a beginning (the begetting) andan end (“and he gave up the ghost”) Melchizedec,however, is said to have had no beginning of days nor end of lifebut was “made like unto the Son of God” !.”For this Melchizedec, king of Salem, priestof the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughterof the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenthpart of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness,and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Withoutfather, without mother, without descent, having neither beginningof days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abidetha priest continually. Now consider how great this man [was], untowhom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.”Hebrews 7:1-4Solomon is said to have been with Godat the beginning of time before all of creation, Proverbs 8:22-31.Well then, is Jesus (pbuh) god because he performedhis miracles under his own power while others needed God to performthem for them? Let us then read:

1. Matthew 28:18 “And Jesus came and spakeunto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heavenand in earth.”
2. Luke 11:20: “But if I with the fingerof God cast out devils.”
3. Matthew 12:28 “But if I cast out devilsby the Spirit of God.”
4. John 5:30: “I can of mine own self donothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; becauseI seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father whichhath sent me.”
5. John 10:25: “the works that I do inmy Father’s name.”
6. John 8:28-29 “…I do nothingof myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone;for I do always those things that please him.”
7. Acts 2:22 “Ye men of Israel, hear thesewords; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among youby miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him inthe midst of you, as ye yourselves also know”

So we see that even the apostle of Jesus (pbuh),Peter “the Rock,”* bore witness many yearsafter the departure of Jesus not that Jesus was “God,the Son of God, who did miracles through his Omnipotence,”rather, he openly bore witness before all those present that Jesuswas “a man.” He then went on to make surethat the masses would not be mislead by Jesus’ miracles into thinkingthat he was more than a man by emphasizing that it was not Jesuswho did the miracles, rather, just as was the case with countlessother prophets before him, it was God Himself who did these miraclesand that God’s prophets are simply the tools through which Heperformed His miracles. In other words, the point that Peter wastrying to drive home to these people was for them to rememberthat just as Moses’ parting of the seas did not make him God orthe son of God, and just as Elisha’s raising of thedead did not make him God or the son of God, so too was the casewith Jesus.What was the goal behind the performance of thesemiracles? Let us read John 11:42 where we find that just beforeJesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he made a point of makingsure that the crowd would not misunderstand what he was aboutto do or why he did it, so he publicly stated before God whilethey were listening that, just as was the case with all previousprophets, the reason why he was given these miracles was in orderto prove that God had sent Him and he was a true prophet:”And I knew that Thou hearest me always;but because of the people standing around I said it, that theymay believe that Thou didst send Me.”.John 11:42 1.2.3.5 Because he was filled with theHoly Ghost?Well then was Jesus (pbuh) the son of Godbecause he was filled with the Holy Ghost? Let us read

1. Luke 1:67 “Zacharias was filled withthe Holy Ghost.”
2. Luke 1:41 “Elisabeth was filled withthe Holy Ghost.”
3. Acts 4:8 “Then Peter, filled with theHoly Ghost said.”
4. Acts 13:9 “Then Paul, filled with theHoly Ghost, set his eyes on him..”
5. Acts 2:4 “And they were all filled withthe Holy Ghost, and began to speak.”

Is Jesus(pbuh) a god because hewas filled with theHoly Spirit from his mother’s womb? If this is the case then Johnthe Baptist should be a god also, as claimedin Luke 1:13-15.1.2.3.6 Because he was the “Image of God”?Some will now say: But in the Bible we read:”….Christ, who is the image of God.”2 Corinthians 4:4Surely this makes Jesus God. Well then, we shouldalso read”So God created man in his own image, inthe image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”Genesis 1:271.2.3.7 Because he was “from above”?In John 8:23 we read “And he (Jesus) said unto them, Ye are frombeneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of thisworld.”Does this make Jesus (pbuh) a god ? No! Why not read”I have given them thy word; and the worldhath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as Iam not of the world” John 17:14and “They are not of the world, even as Iam not of the world.” John 17:16There are many more similar examples. 1.2.3.8 Because he was the”Messiah/Christ” and the “Word”?Many people believe “Messiah” to be a mysticalBiblical term which had been reserved by God from the beginningof time as a direct equivalent of “only begotten Son.”For this reason, when they see that Jesus is referred to in theBible as “The Messiah” they immediately translate thisto mean “The Son of God.” In order to clear up thismisconception, let us first define the true meaning of the wordMessiah and then show it’s exact usage in the Bible.The word “Messiah” is the English versionof the Hebrew word mashiyach {maw-shee’-akh}. The literal meaningof this word in the Hebrew language is “to anoint.”In our present day, it is customary for those who are appointedto high office (ie. the President of the US, Supreme Court justices,etc.) to attend a solemn ritual wherein that person is consecratedinto office. During this ritual, certain rights of passage orascension must be performed, such as repeating a solemn oath andso forth. Once such rituals have been successfully completed,only then is that person considered to have officially receivedthe rights and obligations of this office.In a similar fashion, in ancient times it was acommonpractice among the Jews to “anoint” those who were appointedpositions of high authority. If we were to read the Bible we wouldfind that every priest and king of ancient Israel was “anointed”by their people as a sign of official consecration to office.Further, we find that it was not at all uncommon for inanimateobjects and even pagans to be “anointed.” For example:Solomon:1 Kings 1:39 “And Zadok the priest took anhorn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon.And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save kingSolomon.”David:1 Samuel 16:13 “Then Samuel took the hornof oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and theSpirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuelrose up, and went to Ramah.”Jewish priests:Leviticus 4:3 “If the priest that is anointeddo sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bringfor his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemishunto the LORD for a sin offering.”Cyrus the pagan:Isaiah 45:1 “Thus saith the LORD to his Messiah,to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations beforehim; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him thetwo leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;”A pillar:Genesis 31:13 “I [am] the God of Bethel,where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vowunto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return untothe land of thy kindred.”The tabernacle:Leviticus 8:10 “And Moses tookthe anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that [was]therein, and sanctified them.”A cherub:Ezekiel 28:14 “Thou [art] theanointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thouwast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and downin the midst of the stones of fire.”Sick people:Mark 6:13 “And they cast out many devils,and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].”Jesus anoints a blind manJohn 9:6 “When he had thus spoken, he spaton the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed theeyes of the blind man with the clay,”When this word was translated into ancient Greek,the words used were “Messias” {mes-see’-as} and “Christos”{khris-tos’} (see John 1:41, 4:25). This is where we get the word”Christ” from, it was originally derived from the Greekword for “anoint.” Jesus was indeed “christened,”or “anointed,” or “baptized,” by John theBaptist before the beginning of his ministryas seen for example in Matthew 3:16 among many other verses.This is not to say that just because the word”Messiah”was applied to others that it was not a specific designation forJesus. It only goes to show that this title does not imply a positionas “Son of God.”For example, all of the prophets of God are “friendsof God,” however, only prophet Abraham receivedthis title as an official designation for himself (James 2:23).In a similar manner, all of the prophets of God in ancient Israelwere all “anointed” prophets, however, as an officialdesignation, this title was reserved exclusively for Jesus. Thisis indeed confirmed in the noble Qur’an:”And the angles said ‘O Mary, Allah givesyou glad tidings of a Word from Him, his name is Messiah, Jesusson of Mary, High honored in this world and the next, of thosenear stationed to Allah.”The noble Qur’an, Aal-Umran(3):40In fact, prophet Abraham is also fondlyreferred to by Muslims as the “Khaleel-ullah” (“Friendof God”), and prophet Moses is referred to as”Kaleem-ullah” (“The one spoken to by God”).However, just because prophet Abraham is the “friend of God,”this does not imply that all other prophets (Noah, Moses, etc.)are all “enemies of God.”Similarly, just because Jesus (pbuh) is a “word”from God and a “spirit” from Him does not imply thatthat he is “part of” God, or that this designation isexclusive to him. For example, in the Qur’an we read:”So when I (God) have fashioned him (Adam)and breathed into him of My spirit, fall you (Angels, and thosein attendance) down in prostration before him.” The noble Qur’an, Al-Hijr(15):29″Verily! Our (Allah’s) Word unto a thingwhen We intend it, is only that We say unto it “Be!”- and it is” The noble Qur’an, Al-Nahil(16):40 (please also readchapter 14)To make such terminology clearer, let us take theexample of the term “house of God,” or “My house”as seen in the Bible and the Qur’an in 1 Chronicles 9:11, andAl-Bakarah(2):125. If God is not confined to a specific houseor location (both Muslims and Christians agree to this), thenwhat is meant by the words “house of God”? Every houseon earth belongs to God, however, we do not call bars or brothels”houses of God” but we do call houses of worship “housesof God.” The true meaning is that God is showing favor uponthis house by associating it with His name. God bestows such titlesupon those whom He wishes to bestow His favor upon from amongHis creation by virtue of the piety and worship which is displayedto God in association with this creation. It was the selflessdedication and piety of Jesus (pbuh) towards his Creator whichwas rewarded by God by associating Jesus’ spirit with His name.In a similar manner, the reference to Jesus beinga “word” from God does not mean that Jesus is “partof” God. For example, in many places in the Bible God referstp His “word.” We can see this for example:”Aaron shall be gathered unto his people:for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto thechildren of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at thewater of Meribah.” Numbers 20:24Does “my word” here mean “Jesus”?There are numerous other examples.1.2.3.9 Because he was called “Lord”?Was Jesus God because people addressed him as “mylord.” Not according to the Bible. In the Bible we find thatthis was a common practice with many others besides Jesus. Forexample:Prophet Abraham:”Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord (Abraham)being old also?”Genesis 18:12Esau:”And he commanded them, saying, Thus shallye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I havesojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:”Genesis 32:4Joseph:”And we said unto my lord, We have a father,an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and hisbrother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his fatherloveth him.”Genesis 44:20David:”And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me,my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid,I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thinehandmaid.”1 Samuel 25:24…etc.1.2.3.10 Because God “gave His onlybegotten Son..”?”For God so loved the world, that he gavehis only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shouldnot perish, but have everlasting life.”John 3:16The above is the King James “translation”of John 3:16. If we were to open up the Revised Standard Versionof the Bible on this exact same verse we would find it now translatedas”For God so loved the world, that he gavehis only son, ….”What is going on here? The RSV is the work of thirtytwo Biblical Christian scholars of thehighest eminence backed by fifty cooperating Christian denominations.They produced the RSV in an effort to correct the “many”and “serious” errors they had found in the King JamesBible. So why have they scrapped the word “begotten”from this cornerstone of Christian preaching? The reason is becausethey have decided to be honest with us when translating this verse.The Greek term for “begotten” in ancientGreek is “gennao” {ghen-nah’-o} as found for examplein Matthew 1:2. In the verses under consideration, however, theword used was not “gennao” but “monogenes”{mon-og-en-ace’}.”Monogenes” is a Greek word which conveysthe meaning “unique” and not “begotten.” Thus,the true translation of this verse is “His unique son.”Some of the more honest translations of the Bibles,such as the New Testament by Goodspeed and J. M. Powis Smith (publishedin 1923) have indeed given the same translation as that of theRSV. However, such “tell it as it is” Bibles were notgenerally met with a lot of enthusiasm since they forced the readerto face the fact that much of what the translators of the KJVhave “translated” for them was not in fact part of theBible.We have already seen in previous sections that theBible bears witness that God has “sons” by the tons.So what does the Bible mean by “only son” or “uniqueson” when referring to Jesus? It means what the Bible hastold us and the Qur’an has confirmed for us, namely, that Jesuswas “unique” in that he was born of a human mother withouta father. God merely said to him “Be!” and he was.1.2.3.11 What about “Unto us a child isborn”?”For unto us a child is born, unto us a sonis given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and hisname shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, Theeverlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6When someone reads this verse of Isaiah theyimmediatelysee a clear prophesy of God coming to earth in the form on a humanchild. Is this not what the verse says? Does it not say that Jesusshall be the “incarnation” of Godon earth? Actually, it does not. Let us study it together.Firstly, it is important when applying a prophesyto someone to not selectively pick and choose catch phrases fromthe prophesy and disregard the rest. In this prophesy we findthat the very first stipulation presented for this person is thathe shall carry the government upon his shoulders.*However, as is popular knowledge, Jesus (pbuh) never in his wholelifetime ever formed a government nor became a head of state.In fact we find him saying in the Bible quite explicitly:

1. John 18:36 “Jesus answered, My kingdomis not of this world: if my kingdom were ofthis world, then would my servants fight, that I should not bedelivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”
2. Matthew 22:21 “Then saith he (Jesus)unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s;and unto God the things that are God’s.”

So according to the Bible, Jesus never tried toestablisha government nor to challenge the authority of the pagan emperorCaesar over himself and his followers. Now, if someone were togo the extra mile and to make the case that Jesus commands a”spiritual”government in the hereafter, then we need to know whether thehereafter shall be a place of governments, kings, laws and regulations?Secondly, when we study the words “mighty God”carefully, we notice an interesting fact. For some reason, thewords used are not “Almighty God” but rather “mightyGod.” Naturally, this makes one curious as to what the originalHebrew text actually says. So we decide to study it.The word for “Almighty” as applied exclusivelyto God in the OT is the Hebrew word “Shadday” {shad-dah’-ee}.However, this is not the word used in this verse. The actual wordused in this verse is the Hebrew word “Gibbowr” meaning”mighty” and not “The Almighty.” Now, althoughto us such a difference might seem subtle and insignificant, still,to the Jews, the difference was quite pronounced. Let me elaborate.In the famous Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary by JamesStrong the word “gibbowr” or short “gibbowr”{ghib-bore’}, is translated as; warrior, tyrant:-champion, chief,excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.On the other hand the word “Shadday” {shad-dah’-ee},is translated as, the Almighty:-Almighty.The word translated as “God” here is theHebrew word “El” {ale} which in addition to it’s useto refer to God Almighty in the Bible is also used to refer tomighty men, to demons, to angels, and to idols. As we have alreadyseen in the previous section, it was a common practice in theBible to use the word “god” to convey an air of authorityor power. Some of the examples presented were:”I have said, Ye (the Jews) are gods; andall of you are children of the most High”Psalms 82:6and “And the LORD said unto Moses, See, Ihave made thee a god to Pharaoh”Exodus 7:1as well as “the god of this world (the Devil)hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.”2 Corinthians 4:4When reading such verses we begin to understand thereason why Isaiah 9:6 refers to a “mighty god” and notan “Almighty God.” If the author did indeed mean toconvey that this person would be the “incarnation”of God Almighty who would come down to earth in the form of ahuman being in order to walk among us and die on the cross,then why did this author chose to “water down” his statementby only referring to him with the generic term used for humans,demons, idols, and angels, and not the specific term reservedfor God Almighty alone?And finally, we study the term “everlastingfather.” In the Bible, the term “everlasting” or”forever” is often used as a figurative term and doesnot necessarily convey its literal sense, for example,

1. “and my servant David [shall be] theirprince forever.” Ezekiel37:25.
2. and “The king shall joy in thy strength,O LORD … He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him,[even] length of days for ever and ever.” Psalm 21:1-4

..etc.The same goes for the use of the term “father”.It does not necessarily mean; “the Heavenly Father”(God), or the biological father. Let us read for example:

1. Joseph is called a father to Pharaoh. Genesis45:8,
2. and Job is called the father of the needy. Job29:16.

..etc.So, just as king David shall be an “everlastingprince” so too shall this person be called an “everlastingfather.” This is the language of the Jews. This is how itwas meant to be understood. We can not simply interpret a versesin a vacuum of the culture, customs, and verbal constructs ofthe people who wrote them. We must always be careful when “translating”such verses to make sure that we translate them as they were intendedby the author and as his people had come to understand them.I am sure that the people of this age would be quiteupset if one of them were to write to their closest friend “youare an angel and a prince” and then centuries later aJapanese speaking person were to say: “See? The authorhas just born witness that his friend is a divine creature withwings that came down to earth and became royalty. He says so veryclearly right here!”Well is all of this only my own personal attemptto pervert the verses and manipulate their meanings? Far fromit. Many Christian scholars have known and recognized the truemeaning of this verse and translated it into English accordingly,however, their translations were not met with a whole lot of enthusiasmand thus, they did not receive the same degree of publicity ashas such translations as the King James Version. For example,Mr. J. M. Powis Smith in “The Complete Bible, an AmericanTranslation,” quotes this same verse as follows:”For a child is born to us, a son is givento us; And the government will be upon his shoulder; And his namewill be called ‘Wonderful counselor is God Almighty, Father forever,Prince of peace'””The Complete Bible, an American Translation,”Isaiah 9:6And again, if we were to read the translation ofanother Christian, for example Dr. James Moffatt, we would findthat in his translation “The Holy Bible Containing the Oldand New Testaments” the verse reads:”For a child has been born to us, a childhas been given to us; the royal dignity he wears, and this thetitle he bears – ‘A wonder of a counselor, a divine hero, a fatherfor all time, a peaceful prince'””The Holy Bible Containing the Old and NewTestaments”Isaiah 9:61.2.3.12 How did Jesus’ people know him?So if the followers of Jesus (pbuh) considered Godto be their “Father,” then how did they regard Jesus?To answer this let us read together:”And when he would have put him to death,he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.”Matthew 14:5 (compare with Matthew 21:26)”And the multitude said, This is Jesus theprophet of Nazareth of Galilee.” Matthew 21:11″But when they sought to lay hands on him,they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.”Matthew 21:46″And he said unto them, What things? Andthey said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was aprophet mighty in deed and word before God andall the people:”Luke 24:19″The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceivethat thou art a prophet.”John 4:19″Then those men, when they had seen the miraclethat Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophetthat should come into the world.”John 6:14″Many of the people therefore, when theyheard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.”John 7:40Indeed, how did Jesus himself describehimself? Let us read:”Nevertheless I (Jesus) must walk to day,and to morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be thata prophet perish out of Jerusalem.”Luke 13:33And they were offended in him. But Jesus saidunto them, A prophet is not without honour, savein his own country, and in his own house.Matthew 13:57This is once again confirmed in the noble Qur’an:”And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Childrenof Israel! Verily! I am the messenger of Allahunto you, confirming that which was [revealed] before me in theTorah” The noble Qur’an, Al-Saf(61):6 1.2.3.13 Is God a man?In the Bible we read “God is not a man,that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he shouldrepent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken,and shall he not make it good?”, Numbers 23:191.2.3.14 Does God pray to Himself?Now, does God pray? Let us read the Bible:

1. Mark 14:32 “and he (Jesus) saith to hisdisciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.”
2. Luke 3:21: “Now when all the people werebaptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, andpraying, the heaven was opened.”
3. Luke 6:12: “And it came to pass in thosedays, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continuedall night in prayer to God.”
4. Luke 22:44 “And being in an agony heprayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great dropsof blood falling down to the ground.”
5. Matthew 26:39: “And he went a littlefarther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father,if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless notas I will, but as thou wilt.”

All of these verses do not speak of Jesus (pbuh)”meditating,” “interceding,” “consorting,”or “consulting,” but PRAYING. But to whom? ToHimself? To another side of his own personality? Is Jesus not”the same essence” as God, and all are one Trinity?If Jesus and God are not “the same essence” then thismeans that there is more than one God in existence, and thus,we have just directly opposed verse, after verse, after explicitverse of the Bible, all of which emphasize that there ever was,and ever shall be, only one God.Further, Jesus (pbuh) and his disciples arecontinuouslybeing described in the Bible as “falling on their faces andpraying” which is exactly the way Muslims pray today (seesection 5.6). They pray the way Jesus (pbuh) did. Have you everseen a Christian “fall on his face” and pray to Godas Jesus (pbuh), Muhammad (pbuh), and all Muslims do?Mr. Tom Harpur says:”In fact, unless we are prepared to believethat his prayer-dependence on God was nothing more than a shamfor our edification, a mere act to set us a good example, it isimpossible to cling to the orthodox teaching that Jesus was reallyGod Himself walking about in human form, the Second Person ofthe Trinity. The concept of God praying – let alone praying toHimself – is incomprehensible to me. To say that it was simplythe human side of Jesus talking to God the Father (rather thanhis own divine nature as Son of God) is to posit a kind ofschizophreniathat is incompatible with any belief in Jesus’ full humanity”For Christ’s Sake, pp. 42-43.Think about it, when we are told that Jesus was inthe garden earnestly begging and pleading with God to please,please save him saying “let this cup pass from me” and”My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” etc., then:

1. Was this all just a stage play for our benefit?
2. If not, then since there is only ONE God, andJesus and God are ONE God, then was Jesus praying to himself?Why?

God has given us the answer in the Qur’an over 1400years ago. He says:”And from those who said: “We are Christians,”We took their covenant, but they forgot a good part of the messagewhich was sent to them. Therefore We have stirred up enmity andhatred among them till the Day of Resurrection,and Allah will inform them of what they used to do. O people ofthe Scripture! Now has Our messenger (Muhammad) come to you, explainingto you much of that which you used to hide in the Scripture, andforgiving much. Indeed, there has come to you a light from Allahand a plain Scripture. Wherewith Allah guides him who seeks Hisgood pleasure unto paths of peace. He brings them out of darknessby His will into light, and guides them to a straight path. Theyindeed have disbelieved who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, sonof Mary. Say : Who then has the least power against Allah, ifHe had willed to destroy the Messiah son of Mary, and his motherand everyone on earth? And to Allah belongs the dominion of theheavens and the earth and all that is between them. He createswhat He will. And Allah is Able to do all things. The Jews andChristians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones. Say;Why then does He punish you for your sins? No, you are but mortalsof His creating. He forgives whom He will, and punishes whom Hewill. And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and theearth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the return(of all). O people of the Scripture! Now has Our messenger (Muhammad)come unto you to make things plain after a break in (the seriesof) the messengers, lest you should say: There came not unto usa messenger of cheer nor any Warner. Now has a messenger of cheerand a Warner come unto you. And Allah is Able to do all things.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Maidah(5):14-191.2.3.15 Jesus is God’s servantAll of mankind are the servants of God. If a manwere to own another man then that man would be his servant. Obviouslythis servant would be held in a lower regard than this man’s ownchildren (or himself). We do not usually find people telling theirsons (or themselves): “come here my servant,”or “Go over there my servant.” Let us comparethis with what God has to say about Jesus (pbuh):

1. Matthew 12:18: “Behold my servant, whomI have chosen.”
2. Acts 3:13(RSV): “The God of Abraham,and of Isaac,…. hath glorified his servant Jesus.”
3. Acts 4:27(RSV): “For of a truth againstthy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hast anointed….”

The Actual Greek word used is “pias”or “paida” which mean; “servant, child, son, manservant.”Some translations of the Bible, such as the popular King JamesVersion, have translated this word as “Son” when itis attributed to Jesus (pbuh) and “servant” for mosteveryone else, while more recent translations of the Bible suchas the Revised Standard Version (RSV) now honestly translate itas “servant.” As we shall see in later chapters, theRSV was compiled by thirty two Biblicalscholars of the highest eminence, backed by 50 cooperating Christiandenominations from the “most” ancient Biblicalmanuscripts available to them today. Chances are that no matterwhat your church or denomination you are able to name, that churchtook part in the correction of the King James Version of the Biblewhich resulted in the RSV.The exact same word “pias”is attributed to Jacob(Israel) in Luke 1:54 and translatedas “servant”:”He hath helped his servant Israel, in remembranceof his mercy;.”It is also applied to King Davidin Luke 1:69, and once again, it is translated as “servant”:”….the house of his servant David;”(also see Acts 4:25).However, when it is applied to Jesus (e.g. Acts 3:13,Acts 4:27), NOW it is translated as “Son.”(notice that it is not only translated as “son” butas “Son”.) Why the double standard? Why the dishonesttranslation techniques?”And verily, among them is a party who twisttheir tongues with the Scripture that you might think that itis from the Scripture but it is not from the Scripture; and theysay, ‘It is from Allah’ but it is not from Allah; and they speaka lie against Allah while [well] they know it!” The noble Qur’an, A’al-Umran(3):78″The Messiah will never scorn to be a servantof Allah, nor will the favored angels. Whosoever scorns His serviceand is proud, all such will He assemble unto Him; Then as forthose who believed and did good works, unto them will he pay theirwages in full and shall increase them from His bounty. [But] asfor those who were scornful and proud, He shall punish hem witha painful torment, nor will they find for themselves other thanAllah any ally or champion”The noble Qur’an, Al-Nissa(4):172-174 1.2.3.16 Does God have a God?In John 20:17 we read: “Jesus saith unto her, …I ascend unto myFather, and your Father; and to my God, and your.”Not only is God Jesus’ father, but He is also hisGOD. Think about this carefully. Also notice how Jesusis equating between himself and mankind in these matters and notbetween himself and God. He is making it as clear as he possiblycan that he is one of US and not a god. Why did he notjust say “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father.”… and stop !?Why did Jesus feel it necessary to add the words”…and to my God, and your God.”What additional information was he trying to convey to us withthese extra words? Think about it carefully.1.2.3.17 Is God greater than Himself?Okay, If Jesus and God are two distinct gods andone is greater than the other (“my Father is greater thanI” John 14:28) then thiscontradicts such verses as Isaiah 43:10-11 and the very definitionof the “Trinity” (see section 2.2.5) whichincludes the words: “..Co-equality..” in it’s definition(see section 2.2.8).However, if they are not two separate gods, but ONEgod, as claimed by all Trinitarians (like Mr. J), then is Jesus(pbuh) praying to himself? Is, for instance, his mind prayingto his soul? Why?1.2.3.18 More to think aboutMatthew 11:11 “Verily I (Jesus) say untoyou, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen agreater than John the Baptist.”Not even Jesus? Jesus (pbuh) was born of a woman.Job 25:4: “How then can man be justifiedwith God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?”Once again, Jesus (pbuh) was born of a woman. Shall we now applythis to him? Not as far as Muslims are concerned.1.2.3.19 Was God ignorant and savage?The Bible describes Jesus (pbuh) as follows: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature.”Luke 2:52and “Though he were a Son, yet learned heobedience by the things which he suffered.” Hebrews 5:8If Jesus is God and they are not two separate gods,then did God start out as an ignorant and savage god and thenbecome a learned (wisdom) and prestigious (stature) god? DoesGod have to learn? Does God start out savage andincrease in stature? Does God need to learn obedience to God?If there is only one God in existence, and this god is a “Trinity”with three faces: God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost (required byIsaiah 43:10-11 and countless other verses), then is Jesus (pbuh)learning obedience to another side of his own personality?If as we are constantly told, God Jesus and the HolyGhost are ONE God, and if God surrendered some of His godly attributesand became man, then did He also surrender His knowledge and becomeignorant, and His stature and become savage? Did He have to rebuildHis knowledge and His stature from scratch?Mr. Tom Harpur says:”In fact, if you read Mark’s whole Gospelcarefully you will discover that the disciples were far fromrecognizingthe divinity later attributed to Jesus. The very ones who shouldhave been most able to see through the ‘disguise’are at times depicted as dull-witted and even downright stupid….Somescholars, indeed, have calculated that Mark deliberately showedthe disciples in a rather bad light because he was conscious ofa serious problem. If Jesus was the Son of God in the later; moreorthodox sense, how was it that his closest associates – the witnessesof his miracles and the confidants of his deepest teachings -never knew who he was until well after the resurrection?”For Christ’s Sake, pp. 59.Remember, most Christian scholars today recognizethat the authors of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke used the “Gospelof Mark” as the source document from which they obtainedtheir material.In Grolier’s encyclopedia, under the heading “Mark,Gospel According to”, we read:”Mark is the second Gospel in the New Testamentof the Bible. It is the earliest and the shortest of the fourGospels. …Much material in Mark is repeated in Matthew and inLuke, leading most scholars to conclude that Mark was writtenfirst and used independently by the other writers”Well, what then is the Islamic perspective on allof this? Islam teaches that God does not need to lower Himselfin order to display His love and mercy for humanity, rather, Heretains His glory, majesty and sovereignty and then raiseshumanity:”Allah will exalt those who have believedfrom among you, and those who have been granted knowledge, tohigh ranks. And Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do.”The noble Qur’an, Al-Mujadila(58):11″Whosoever desires honor, power and glory,then [let them know that] to Allah belongs all honor, power andglory. To Him ascends the good word, and the righteous deed doesraise it; but those who plot iniquities, theirs will be an awfuldoom; and the plotting of such (folk) will come to naught.”The noble Qur’an, Fatir(35):101.2.3.20 But he must be God, or else wecan not be savedBut the Church will tell us that it is necessaryfor Jesus (pbuh) to be the son of God and todie on the cross as an ultimate sacrifice in atonementfor the original sin, otherwise they are all destined for hell.As Paul taught them “without shedding of blood is no remission.”Hebrews 9:22. Let us study Paul’s claim:If the sin of one man can make all mankind sinnersas claimed in Romans 5:12, then:1) This requires that all babies are sinners frombirth and are only saved if they later “accept the sacrificeof their Lord and are baptized.” All others remain stainedwith the original sin and destined for destruction. Till recently,unbaptized infants were not buried in consecrated ground becausethey were believed to have died in original sin. Saint Augustinehimself is quoted as saying:”No one is clean, not even if his life beonly for a day” A dictionary of Biblical tradition in Englishliterature,p.577).This, however, contradicts the words of Jesus himself”But Jesus said, Suffer little children,and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdomof heaven.” Matthew 19:14 (also Mark 10:14, and Luke 18:16).So Jesus (pbuh) himself is telling us that childrenare born without sin and are destined for heaven without qualification.In other words, no one is born stained with an original sin. Onceagain, the teachings of Islam. Islam teaches that you are destinedfor salvation from your very birth. This will be your reward unlessyou refuse this gift and insist on disobeying God.2) All the many millennia of previous prophets (Moses,Abraham, Jacob, Noah, …etc.) and theirpeople are all condemned to never receive true salvation simplybecause Jesus, the alleged “Son of God,”arrived to late to save them. In other words, they have sin forcedupon them (by Adam, 1 Corinthians 15:22) and the chancefor redemption withheld from them (By Jesus’ late arrival aftertheir death, Galatians 2:16). Paul says”Nevertheless death reigned from Adam toMoses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitudeof Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was tocome.” Romans 5:14″For if Abraham were justified by works,he hath reason to boast; but not before God.” Romans 4:2If Jesus had only arrived as soon as Adam committedhis sin and not thousands of generations later then maybe allof these generations could have received true salvation (likethis generation).Did Abraham or any of the otherprophetsever preach the “crucifixion”? Did they preach the “Trinity”?I am asking for clear and decisive words and not personal forcedinterpretations of their words or “hidden meanings”for their words. If you are not sure then why not ask the Jewswho we are told faultlessly transmitted two thirds of the Bibleto us? Have any of them ever worshipped a Trinity? Manypeople do not bother to think about this. As long as they aregoing to heaven, what does it matter what happens to others?3) What right did the prophets of God have to deceivetheir people and tell them that they would receive eternal salvationand expiation from their sins if they but kept the commandments?What right did they have to teach them all of these commandmentsand the observance of the Sabbath and other hardshipsif all of their works were worthless and belief in Jesus’ sacrificewhich would not occur till many thousands of years after theirdeath was the only way to salvation, or as Paul put it :”a man is not justified by the works of thelaw … for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified..”Galatians 2:16.4) Explain Ezekiel 18:19-20 “Yetdo you say: Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hathkept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear theiniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquityof the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him,and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him..”This verse was revealed long before the birth of Paul and hisclaims of “original sin” and “redemption.”It clearly states that all mankind are notheld accountable by God Almighty for the sin of Adam.”The fathers shall not be put to death forthe children, neither shall the children be put to death for thefathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin..”Deuteronomy 24:16″In those days they shall say no more, Thefathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth areset on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: everyman that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.”Jeremiah 31:29-30″The word of the LORD came unto me again,saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning theland of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, andthe children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the LordGOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb inIsrael. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, itshall die. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful andright, And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath liftedup his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hathdefiled his neighbor’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruouswoman, And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtorhis pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his breadto the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; He thathath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase,that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed truejudgment between man and man, Hath walked in my statutes, andhath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surelylive, saith the Lord God”Ezekiel 18:1-9″Who is a God like unto thee, that pardonethiniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of hisheritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delightethin mercy.”Micah 7:18:”So ye shall not pollute the land whereinye [are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannotbe cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the bloodof him that shed it.”Numbers 35:335) Isaiah 43:11 “I, even I, am the LORD;and beside me there is no savior.” How is Jesus the saviorif God Himself denies this? Remember, we have already discardedthe doctrine of “Trinity.””I am God, and there is none else; I am God,and there is none like me,”Isaiah 46:9″the LORD he is God; there is none else besidehim,” Deuteronomy 4:35″See now that I, even I, am he, and thereis no god with me,” Deuteronomy 32:39″That all the people of the earth may knowthat the LORD is God, and that there is none else,” 1 Kings 8:60″Is there a God beside me? yea, there isno God; I know not any,”Isaiah 44:8″I am the LORD, and there is none else, thereis no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not knownme,” Isaiah 45:5″and there is no God else beside me; a justGod and a Savior there is none beside me,” Isaiah 45:21″I am God, and there is none else.”Isaiah 45:22:6) “Jesus answered and said unto him, Ifa man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father willlove him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”John 14:23. “If ye keep my commandments, ye shallabide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments,and abide in his love.” John 15:10.So what were Jesus’ words to us?: “And, behold, one came and said unto him,Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternallife? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there isnone good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life,keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which?Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery,Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honorthy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighboras thyself The young man saith unto him, All these things haveI kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him,If thou wilt be perfect, go [and] sellthat thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasurein heaven: and come [and] follow me.”Matthew 19:16-21.Jesus (pbuh) refutes that he is even “good.”This is a characteristic of a MAN. When you complimenta man, and this man is humble, he will say: “why are youcomplimenting me? I am not so good, I am just a humble man.”This is how good and decent men speak. It is how they displayhumility before God. However, if Jesus (pbuh) is God then he mustclaim to be good. This is because God is the source of ultimategood. If God claims not to be good then he will be a hypocriteand a liar which is impossible.Jesus then goes on to completely bypass any mentionof an original sin or an atonement. He does nottell this man that “a man is not justified by the worksof the law … for by the works of the law shall no flesh bejustified..”Rather, he tells him that the keeping of the commandments andthe selling of one’s belongings is the path to perfection.No mention of an original sin. No mention of an atonement. Nomention of a crucifixion. No mention of faith without work. Aswe have seen in sections 1.2.5 through 1.2.7 (and we shall seemuch more of this in later sections), all of these beliefs werethe beliefs of Paul and not Jesus.Paul, a disciple of Jesus’ disciple Barnabas, isquoted to have said that the law of Moses is worthless.Belief in the crucifixion is the only requirement”Knowing that a man is not justified by theworks of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we havebelieved in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faithof Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works ofthe law shall no flesh be justified” Galatians 2:16Also: “Therefore we conclude that a man isjustified by faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans 3:28And: “In that he saith, A new covenant, hehath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth oldis ready to vanish away” Hebrews 8:13.And: “He that believeth and is baptized shallbe saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”Mark 16:16Please compare the above with “The law of the LORD [is] perfect, convertingthe soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise thesimple.”Psalm 19:7Jesus (pbuh), however, tells us that “For verily I say unto you, Till heavenand earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wisepass from the law, till all be fulfilled,Fulfillment of Law of Moses.Whosoever therefore shall break one of these leastcommandments,and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least inthe kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them,the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”Matthew 5:18-19.Even James emphasizes that: “What [doth it] profit, my brethren, thougha man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food Andone of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed andfilled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which areneedful to the body; what [doth it] profit? Even so faith, ifit hath not works, is dead, being alone Yea, a man may say, Thouhast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works,and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest thatthere is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, andtremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without worksis dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when hehad offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seestthou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faithmade perfect? And the scripture was fulfilledwhich saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto himfor righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye seethen how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, whenshe had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out anotherway? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith withoutworks is dead also.”James 2:14-20It comes down to this: Who’s words carry more weightwith us, Jesus or Paul? Jesus and James both say “have faithin God and obey the commandments and you shall be saved.”Paul on the other hand says “Forget the commandments, justhave faith in the death of Jesus!” So who do we trust, Jesusor Paul?When God Almighty sent down the Noble Qur’an in orderto “bear witness” over the previous scripturesand to “rectify” the changes which have creptinto them over the ages, He also provided us with the path tosalvation. Strangely enough, in the Qur’an we find a confirmationof the message of both Jesus and James:”And whosoever does of the righteous gooddeeds, be they male or female, and has faith, such will enterParadise and shall not be wronged even so much as a ‘Naqeer'(thespeck on the back of a date stone)” The noble Qur’an, Al-Nissa(4):124″And whosoever works deed of righteousnessand has faith, then he shall fear no injustice nor any curtailment[of his reward].” The noble Qur’an, Ta’ha(20):112″Verily, those who believed and did righteousdeeds, they are the best of creatures” The noble Qur’an, Al-Bayyinah(98):7″[God swears] by all time!. Verily, humanityis in loss. Except such as had faith, and did righteous deeds,and encouraged one-another in truth, and encouraged one-anotherin patience.” The noble Qur’an, Al-Asr(103):1-3Jesus (pbuh) himself never said “Believein my sacrifice on the cross and you will be saved.”He didn’t tell this young man “You are filthy wicked andsinful and can never enter heaven except through my redeemingblood and your belief in my sacrifice.” He simply said repeatedly”keep the commandments” and nothing more. If Jesus (pbuh)was being prepared and conditioned for this sacrifice from thebeginning of time, then why did he not mention it to this man?Even when this man pressed him for more, Jesus only told him thatto be “PERFECT” he only needs to sell his belongings.He made no mention whatsoever of his crucifixion, an originalsin, or a redemption. Would this not be quite sadistic of Jesus(pbuh) if Paul’s claims are true “for by the works ofthe law shall no flesh be justified”? We do notknow when or how this young man later died. However, supposinghe died the very next day, right after receiving this commanddirectly from the mouth of Jesus, would he then be destined forHell since he never believed in a Trinity, an original sin, acrucifixion or an atonement even though he was following the commandof Jesus to the letter?If Jesus’ (pbuh) whole mission in life was to dieon the cross in atonement for the “sin of Adam,”and if this was the founding reason why he was sent, would wenot be justified in expecting him to spend night and day drummingthis into the minds of his followers? Should we not expect himto speak of nothing else? Should we not expect him to spend nightand day preaching that the commandments shall soon be thrown outthe window (Galatians 3:13) and faith in his upcoming crucifixionshall be the only thing required of them? (Romans 3:28). Shouldwe not expect Jesus (pbuh) to echo the teachings of Paul who neverin his life met Jesus but claims Jesus (pbuh) was preaching thesethings to him in “visions”? Should we not expect Jesus(pbuh) to tell everyone he meets “The commandments are worthless.I shall be dying on the cross soon. Believe in my sacrifice andyou shall be saved”? Is this not dictated by plain simplelogic? Can we find such an explicit statement fromJesus anywhere in the whole Bible?7) We read in the Bible that Jesus (pbuh) taughthis followers to pray to God as follows: “..And forgive us our debts, as we forgiveour debtors.” Matthew 6:12.Also: “And forgive us our sins; for we alsoforgive every one that is indebted to us.” Luke 11:4.Jesus is asking us to pray to God that He forgiveour sins. But how does he want God to forgive oursins? By a blood sacrifices of a sinless god? No!. That is notwhat he said. Rather, he taught us to ask God to forgive us “aswe forgive those who are indebted to us.” Therefore one mustask, if someone owes us money and we want to forgive them, whatdo we do?:

1. Do we say “I forgive you your debt … nowpay up!”?
2. Do we say “I forgive you your debt … nowI shall kill your neighbor”
3. Or do we say “I forgive you,” and forgetthe matter?

Therefore, did Jesus teach us to pray to God thatHe should:

1. Say “All of mankind is forgiven … nowpay an ultimate price”?
2. Or, to say “All of mankind is forgiven …now I need to kill someone who is sinless”?
3. Or, to say “All of mankind is forgiven”and that is it !?

In the Qur’an we are told that Adam (pbuh)did indeed repent”And Adam received from his Lord words (teachinghim how to repent) and He relented toward him. Lo! He is the Relentingthe Merciful”The noble Qur’an, Al-Bakarah(2):37So Adam (pbuh) received a revelation from God showinghim how to repent and he did so. God Almighty did not mandatea gruesome and torturous death for “His only begotten son”or anything else. He simply accepted Adam’s repentance and relented.This is true mercy.Tom Harpur, a former professorof New Testament, author of “For Christ’s Sake,” andan Anglican Minister writes;”Perhaps I am lacking in piety or some basicinstinct, but I know I am not alone in finding the idea of Jesus’death as atonement for the sins of all humanity on one levelbewilderingand on the other morally repugnant. Jesus never to my knowledgesaid anything to indicate that forgiveness from God could onlybe granted ‘after’ or ‘because of’ the Cross.” For Christ’s Sake, p.751.2.3.21 But he must be God, he was liftedupA Christian gentleman from Canada once quoted John3:14-15 in an attempt to prove that Jesus (pbuh) died and wasresurrected. The actual words are:”And as Moses lifted up the serpent in thewilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoeverbelieveth in him should not perish, but have eternal life..”If we are to conclude that the act of God raisingsomeone up is a sign that that person is a god or God Himselfthen we need to wonder how we shall then interpret the fact thatGod also raised Elijah (2 Kings 2:11) and Enoch (Genesis 5:24)neither of which, according to the Bible and the consensus ofthe Christian scholars, died natural deaths but were instead “raisedup” or “taken” by God because of their piety, uprightness,and their “walking with God.”Further, anyone who would simply read the aboveversescarefully will notice that they never mention either a “crucifixion”or a “resurrection.” They also do not mention an “originalsin” or an “atonement.” They do not even mentiona “Son of God.” So, what do they say? They say exactlywhat Muslims say: That Jesus (pbuh) was not forsaken by God tothe Jews, but was raised by God!”And because of their saying (in boast):We killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah,but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but a similitude ofthat was shown to them, and those who differ therein are fullof doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, except the followingof conjecture. For surely; they killed him not. But Allah raisedhim up unto Himself, and Allah is All-Powerful, All-Wise”The noble Qur’an, Al-Nissa(4):157-158.This is what the “Gospel of Barnabas”says too. If you were to read the Gospel of Barnabas (see chapter7), you would find that when Jesus (pbuh) was allegedly crucified,all of the faithful were weeping in the streets and they beganto have serious doubts about his truthfulness and his true prophethood.They said “Jesus told us that he would not die until justbefore the end of time. Now he has been crucified by his enemies.Was he a liar?” (by the way, Muslims also believe thatJesus, pbuh, will return to earth just before the end of timeand will guide mankind to the final message of God. The messageof Islam). The same Gospel then goes on to describe how Jesus(pbuh) returned a few days later with four angels to the houseof his mother Mary (pbuh) and was seen by the apostles. He describedhow God had saved him from the hands of the Jews, and had madeit so that Judas resembled him and was taken in his place. Hetold them that those who believe in him must believe that everythinghe had preached to them was true. If they believed that hewas raised by God and not forsaken to the Jews to be crucified,then they would have eternal life. Is this not what the versessay? Please read sections 5.10, 5.16 and chapter 7. 1.2.4: “Worship me!””And why call ye me,Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”Luke 6:46Mr. J says: “What makes Jesus stand out fromall other religious figures is the nature of His claims aboutHimself. He claims the prerogatives of God, the rightful objectof a person’s supreme allegiance, and receives with out censurethe worship and obedience of those who believe.” Letus study the validity of this claim:1.2.4.1 Who can forgive sins?Islam teaches that a Muslim is rewarded for everysingle hardship he endures patiently during his lifetime and thateach hardship endured patiently is used by God Almighty to erasea previous sin by this individual. Even something so simple asa pin prick is counted to this end. How much greater the rewardfor a man who endured paralysis. His reward may very likely bethe forgiveness of all of his sins. IfChristianity believes that forgiving sins is a sign of divinitythen what are we to say about the many millions of people in theChristian clergy who over the last 2000 years have publicly acceptedpeople’s “confessions” and “forgiven” theirsins? Are they all the offspring of God and part of the Trinity?Do they call God on the telephone and ask His permission to forgiveeach individual or do they have “the power to forgive sins”?In “The Five Gospels,”written by 24 Christian scholars from some of the most prominentUS and Canadian Universities around today, we read on page 44:”Stories of Jesus curing a paralytic arefound in all four narrative gospels, The Johannine version (John5:1-9) differs substantially…The controversy interrupts thestory of the cure- which reads smoothly if one omits vv. 5b-10(Mark 2)- and it is absent in the parallel of John…Scholarsusually conclude, on the basis of this evidence, that Mark hasinserted the dispute into what was originally a simple healingstory…If the words are to be attributed to Jesus, v. 10 mayrepresent a bold new claim on Jesus’ part that gives the authorityto forgive sins to all human beings…The early church was inthe process of claiming for itself the right to forgive sins andso would have been inclined to claim that it’s authorization camedirectly from Jesus.”However, even if we were for a moment to disregardall of the evidence, then we will find that to insist on followingMark 2:1-12 blindly shall result in utter and complete nullificationof one of the founding beliefs of Christianity. For the proofof this, please read section 5.16.We have already spoken in section 1.2.3.2 about theterm “Son of God” and it’s true meaning as understoodby the people of that time. What we want is a claim by Jesus himselfwhere he says “Worship me” just as God Almighty saysfor instance in Isaiah 66:23″And it shall come to pass, that from onenew moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall allflesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”I simply want to know where Jesus (pbuh) does thesame.1.2.4.2 Jesus said “I am” so he must be GodOnce again, the claim in John 8:56-59 “beforeAbraham was born, I am” is notthe same as “worship me!” The fact that Jesus (pbuh)was present before Abraham (pbuh) is not the same as him saying”worship me!” What then would we say about Solomon(pbuh) (Proverbs 8:22-31) and Melchizedec (Hebrews 7:3), who weresupposedly present not only before Abraham (pbuh), but also beforeall of creation? What about the many others who were either anointed,consecrated or made holy, before their births. (see Ps.89:20,Is. 45:1, 61:1, 1 Sam. 24:6, and Jer.1:5)?With regard to your comparison of “I am”in the verse of Exodus 3:14 with that of John 8:59, please notethat in John 9:9, a beggar who was healed by prophet Jesus usedthese exact same words used by Jesus (“I am”)to refer to himself. We read”Some said, This is he (the beggar): others[said], He is like him: [but] he said, I am [he].”John 9:9.Here we have a very clear statement from the beggarthat he was “implying” that he too was God Almighty.Is this not how the “translators” have chosen to translateand “interpret” such verses?. Please note that the word”he” was not uttered by this beggar. What he actuallysaid was “I am.” He used the exact samewords that Jesus used. Word for word. Does thisnow make this beggar too the “incarnation”of God? Also notice that when the Jews asked this beggar aboutthe identity of the one who healed him (Jesus) he replied”And he said, ‘He is a prophet.'” John 9:17Further, please notice how the “translators”chose to add the word “he” after the beggar’s statement,but they did not chose to do so when Jesus said the exact samewords.Do you see how we have once again been reduced toimplication?. Notice how since Jesus never once says “I amGod!” or “Worship me!” that our own desire forhim to actually say that he is God is making us “interpret”every innocent statement he makes to be equivalent to “Iam God!”?Just because the English translation of these versesis performed such that they become the same English words doesnot mean that the original words are the same. The firstis the GREEK word eimi {i-mee’}, while the second is the HEBREWword hayah {haw-yaw}. While both can be translated into Englishto mean the same thing, they are in actuality two distinctly differentwords.The exact same Greek word(eimi {i-mee’}) is translated as “I” in Matthew26:22:”And they [the disciples] were exceedingsorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord,is it I?”However, if we want to translate this word as “Iam” when Jesus says it then we need to be honest and consistentand translate it the exact same way when the disciplessay it too. In such a case, Matthew 26:22 would be translatedas follows:”And they [the disciples] were exceedingsorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord,is it I am?”So, if we were to follow these translator’s chosen”translation” techniques, shall we now claim that thedisciples of Jesus too are God? Here we have them saying so veryclearly. We have them asking Jesus in black and white “Arewe God?.” Is this not what they were “implying?.”Should the inspiration of God be reduced to our “implications”?When the translators have not allowed theirpreconceiveddoctrines to color their translation the result has been suchfaithful translations of John 8:58 as the following:”‘Truly, truly I tell you,’ said Jesus, ‘Ihave existed before Abraham was born'” The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments,Dr. James Moffatt, John 8:58and “Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you, I existedbefore Abraham was born'” The Complete Bible, an American Translation, by EdgarGoodspeed and J. M. Powis Smith, John 8:58In Exodus 3:4, we read that prophet Mosesused this exact same term to refer to himself, however,now strangely enough, no one has ever tried to claim that Mosesis God or that he was mimicking the words of God found ten verseslater in the same book of Exodus. We read:”And when the LORD saw that he turned asideto see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, andsaid, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.” Exodus 3:4Notice how people are driven in a chosen directionof faith through selective translation? Also remember that Jesus(pbuh) did not speak GREEK. If only the church had not felt itnecessary to burn all of the original Hebrew manuscripts of theBible.Is it so hard to bring us one clear verse like theabove verse of Isaiah 66:23 wherein Jesus (pbuh) also says “worshipme!”? Why must we infer? If Jesus is God or the Son of Godthen this is his right. The Bible should be overflowingwith verses where Jesus explicitly commands his followersto worship him, where God explicitly commands mankind toworship his son, where God explicitly threatens those whodo not worship His son with brimstone and hellfire, and so forth.The Bible is overflowing with verses like this from God aboutHimself, and from Jesus (pbuh) about God, but thereare none from Jesus (pbuh) about himself. Why is it necessary:

1. For God Almighty to explicitly commandus to worship Him, and
2. for Jesus to explicitly command us toworship “the Father.”

while it is not necessary:

1. For Jesus (pbuh) to explicitly commandus to worship him, or
2. for God to explicitly command us toworship”the Son”?

Is this not a fair request?1.2.4.3 But people “worshipped” Jesus andhe did not objectWith regard to John 9:38 “Lord. I believe,and he worshipped him.” and Matthew 28:17 “theysaw him, they worshipped him.” Please note that the wordtranslated as “worshipped” in both verses isthe GREEK word “prosekunesan” which is derived fromthe root word proskuneo {pros-ku-neh’-o}. Theliteral meaning of this word is (and I quote): “to kiss,like a dog licking his masters hand.” This word alsohas the general meaning of “bow, crouch, crawl, kneelor prostrate.” Please check the Strong’s concordancefor the true meaning of this word. Is the act of kissing someone’shand the same as worshipping him? Once again, selective translation.However, the above two verses of John and Mattheware not the only two verses of the Bible were such selectivetranslationtechniques are employed in order to impress upon the reader achosen doctrine. For example, in the “Gospel of Matthew”the English “translation” records that Jesus was “worshipped”by Magi that came from the East (2:11); by a ruler (9:18) , byboat people (14:33), by a Canaanite woman (15:24), by the motherof the Zebedees (20:20); and by Mary Magdalene and the other Mary(28:9) to name but a very few.Since worshipping any one other than God is afundamentalsin, therefore, the reader understands that Jesus was God sincehe condoned them “worshipping” him. Since Jesus(pbuh) never once in the whole Bible ever told anyone “worshipme!” (as God Himself does in many places), therefore, onceagain, we are told that Jesus was “hinting” that hewants us to worship him. However, as we can plainly see, whatthe author was in fact saying in these verses is that these people”fell at Jesus’ feet,” or that these people “kneltbefore Jesus.”How then shall we interpret their “kneelingdown before Jesus.”? Should we understand that they were”praying” to him? Far from it! Let us ask the Bibleto explain:”And when Abigail saw David, she hasted,and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, andbowed herself to the ground, And fell at his feet, and said, Uponme, my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thinehandmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the wordsof thine handmaid.”1 Samuel 25:23-24When Abigail “fell before” king David wasshe “worshipping” him? Was she “praying” tohim? When she addressed him as “my lord,” did she meanthat he was her God?. Similarly,”Then she went in, and fell at his (Elisha’s)feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, andwent out.”2 Kings 4:37″And his (Joseph’s) brethren also went andfell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we [be] thyservants.”Genesis 50:18″And there went over a ferry boat to carryover the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. AndShimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was comeover Jordan;”2 Samuel 19:18″Worship” is one of those English wordswhich carry a double meaning. The one most popular among mostpeople is “to pray to.” This is the meaning thatimmediately springs into everyone’s mind when they read this word.However, “worship” has another meaning. It also means”to respect,” “to reverence,” or”to adore” (see for example Merriam Webster’s CollegiateDictionary, tenth edition). The second meaning is used more frequentlyin England than, for example, in the United States. However, thefirst remains the most popular and well known meaning in any Englishspeaking country. Even at that, in Britain it is not at all uncommoneven in this age to find the British addressing their nobles as”your worship.”What the translators have done when translating theseverse is that they have “technically” translated theword correctly, however, the true meaning of this word is nowcompletely lost.Finally, in order to seal the proof of this matterand to dispel any lingering doubt that may remain in the reader’smind, the reader is encouraged to obtain a copy of the “NewEnglish Bible.” In it they will find the translations ofthe quoted verses to read:

1. “bowed to the ground”(2:11);
2. “fell at his feet”(14:33);
3. “falling prostrate before him”(28:9), and
4. “fell prostrate before him”(28:17)…etc.

Please also read the translation of these versesin “The Complete Bible, an American Translation” ByEdward Goodspeed and J. M. Powis Smith where they are once againhonestly translated as:

1. “they threw themselves down and did homageto him” (2:11),
2. “fell down before him”(14:33),
3. “and they went up to him and claspedhis feed and bowed to the ground before him”(28:9), and
4. “bowed down before him”(28:17),etc.

Once again, we remember that such sublime manipulationof the translation in order to establish with the reader a chosendoctrine was exposed by God in the noble Qur’an. The Qur’an says:”There is among them a party who distortthe Scripture with their tongues that you might think that itis from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture; andthey say, ‘It is from God,’ but it is not from God; and they speaka lie against God, and [well] they know it!”The Qur’an, A’al-Umran(3):781.2.4.4 But he doesn’t need to sayitMr. J., you say: “Does Jesus say, ‘I am God’?No.” I am glad we agree. “…because that wouldhave been misunderstood. Jesus is not the Father (as it wouldhave been thought), Jesus is the Son.” What?, are youclaiming that Jesus is incapable when telling his disciples “worshipthe Father” to add the words “…and the Son”?Are you claiming that the people he is talking to are incapableof comprehending that one is the father and the other is the son?Would you have us believe that his twelve apostles were so densethat they could not comprehend the difference between a “father”and a “son”? Are there no words in his language to say”I am not God but His son, worship both ofus”? When you claim that Jesus (pbuh) died on the cross,do you misunderstand this to mean that God the “Father”is the one who died on the cross? When you claim that Jesus was”begotten” by God, do you misunderstand this to meanthat Jesus begat the Father? Are Jesus’ twelve hand-picked apostlestruly in you estimation so backward and dense? This is not howMuslims regard them.With regard to the miracles of Jesus being proofof his Godhead please read my comments about other prophets andtheir miracles (Section 2.2.3).What you appear to be trying to say is that the factthat Jesus never told anyone to worship him nor claimed to beGod but left it up to them to surmise by themselves is proof thathe wanted them to worship him? God must command us to worshiphim, and Jesus must command us to worship God, but Jesus (pbuh)receives worship “without censure” without askingfor it? Why then is the same not true for God Himself? Why didGod Himself not simply remain quiet (like Jesus) and expect usto “gather” and “observe” that He wishes usto worship Him. Why does God Himself not receive “withoutcensure” worship until He asks for it? Why?With regard to the opening verses of John, they havealready been dealt with in detail.Jesus (pbuh) never in his lifetime told anyone toworship him. It was others who did that. Quite the contrary, wheneverJesus (pbuh) spoke of worship, he always attributed it to Godand never himself: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,and him only shalt thou serve” Luke 4:8. Noticethe words: “Him ONLY.” Jesus did not say “USonly,” or “Him and I only.” How could he possiblymake it more clear than that? What abstract meaning are we nowgoing to concoct for this verse to show that what Jesus “really”meant was “worship BOTH of us”?The problem with many apologists is that they”interpret”the words “he” and “him” to mean “we”and “us” when it suits them, and to mean “he”and “him” only when it suits them. In cases such asLuke 4:8, they claim that “him” really means”us.” But in cases where God “begets” Jesus,or where God “sacrifices” Jesus, “him” and”he” is God alone and does not mean “us”and “we.” Notice the trend ?But there is more:

1. “Jesus saith unto her, … worship theFather” John 4:2.
2. “But the hour cometh, and now is, whenthe true worshippers shall worship the Fatherin spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worshipHIM” John 4:23. Notice: “worshipthe FATHER,” not “worship the Father AND THE SON.”Also notice: “worship HIM” not “worship US”or “worship ME.”
3. “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeththe will of my Father which is in heaven.”Matthew 7:21.
4. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt lovethe Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, andwith all thy mind.” Matthew 22:37.

Strangely enough, even though Jesus is regarded asthe “incarnation” of God, and whollyequal to God in every respect, and all three are “one”God, still, no one has ever gone on and attempted to explain ifthis is so why Jesus would then need to pray, let alone to hisown self:

1. “And he (Jesus) went a little further,and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it bepossible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I willbut as thou [wilt].” Matthew 26:39
2. “He (Jesus) went away again the secondtime, and prayed (to another side of his ‘triune’ self?), saying,O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drinkit, thy will be done.” Matthew 26:42
3. “And he (Jesus) left them, and went awayagain, and prayed (to whom? To himself?) the third time, sayingthe same words.” Matthew 26:44
4. “And in the morning, rising up a greatwhile before day, he (Jesus) went out, and departed into a solitaryplace, and there prayed.” Mark 1:35
5. “And he (Jesus) went forward a little,and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible,the hour might pass from him.” Mark14:35
6. “And again he (Jesus) went away, andprayed, and spake the same words.”Mark 14:39
7. “And he (Jesus) withdrew himself intothe wilderness, and prayed.” Luke5:16
8. “And he (Jesus) was withdrawn from themabout a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,”Luke 22:41

etc.If Jesus (pbuh) “is” God, and if both aredifferent names for one “triune” God, and if all three”persons” are “co-equal, co-eternal, and consubstantial,”then is Jesus praying to himself? Is he praying to another sideof his own personality? Is he praying to his own essence? Why?Why does the “incarnation” of Godneed to pray, beseech, sweat, and plead with his own essence?If I have both a father and a number of sons, then can my “fatherly”nature plead with my “sonly” nature to save it fromdanger? Why? For what purpose?”Many will say to me (Jesus) in that day,Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy namehave cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart fromme, ye that work iniquity.”Matthew 7:22

1.2.5: Historical origin of the “Trinity”myth”And you shall knowthe truth, and the truth shall make you free.”John 8:32Mr. J says: “Most “proofs” againstthe traditional teachings of Christianity consist of pitting onepassage of Scripture against another.” Should it notbe impossible to “pit one verse of the Bible against another”?Should the verses of the Bible not be consistent? Should theynot reinforce each other rather that refute each other? What kindof logic is this?As we shall now begin to see, humanity has over theages taken great liberties with the text of the Bible. This hasultimately resulted in countless contradictions between the verses.This means that as a result of this continuous unrelenting tampering,the message of the Bible can no longer be trusted as the original100% unchanged word of God. The Bible itself bears witness thata “false witness” will always resultin discrepancy (Mark 14:56). Mr. J continues, “…andalmost always taking such passages out of context.”Please go back to such verses as “I and myfather are one” and the many others which we have justdealt with in the last two sections and see whether Muslims orthe Church quote the Bible out of context? Please show me whereI have been unjust or unfaithful in my presentation of the verses.If the Bible had remained 100% the word of God then it would beimpossible for it’s verses to contradict each other, however,if mankind has been taking liberties with the words of God thenthe verses will indeed contradict themselves: “Do theynot consider the Qur’an (with care)? Had it been from other thanAllah, they would have surely found therein much discrepancy.”The Qur’an, Al-Nissa(4):82. Why not apply the same test to theBible?”The Christian message about Jesus revolvesaround three facts: the incarnation, the crucifixion, and theresurrection.” Have we now totallygiven up on such matters as the “Trinity,”the “original sin,” the “atonement,” and soforth…? We have already disproved all of these. “Provefrom the Bible or otherwise that any one of these three thingsare not true, and like a three-legged stool the truth of the messagewould collapse.” Please go back and have another lookat your stool. Does it not need the doctrines of “Trinity,””begotten son of God,” “originalsin” and “atonement.” In order to remain standing?If you would like, you can find many very serious discrepanciesin the narration of the crucifixion and many other matters inAhmed Deedat’s books “The Choice,” and “Crucifixionor Cruci-fiction,” as well as his many other publications(you may get a sample from sections 2.1 and 2.2).But someone may now say: “If the Trinitywas not revealed by God Almighty or Jesus (pbuh) then why doesChristianity believe in it?” The answer lies in the councilof Nicea of 325 CE.In “The New Catholic Encyclopedia”(Bearing the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, indicatingofficial approval) we get a glimpse of how the concept of theTrinity was not introduced into Christianity untilclose to four hundred years after Jesus (pbuh):”…….It is difficult in the second halfof the 20th century to offer a clear, objective and straightforwardaccount of the revelation, doctrinal evolution, and theologicalelaboration of the Mystery of the trinity. Trinitarian discussion,Roman Catholic as well as other, present a somewhat unsteadysilhouette.Two things have happened. There is the recognition on the partof exegetes and Biblical theologians, including a constantly growingnumber of Roman Catholics, that one should not speak ofTrinitarianism in the New Testament without serious qualification.There is also the closely parallel recognition on the part ofhistorians of dogma and systematic theologians that when one doesspeak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from theperiod of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the4th century. It was only then that what might be called the definitiveTrinitarian dogma ‘One God in three Persons’ became thoroughlyassimilated into Christian life and thought … it was theproduct of 3 centuries of doctrinal development”(emphasis added).”The New Catholic Encyclopedia,” VolumeXIV, p. 295They admit it!!! Jesus (pbuh), John, Matthew,Luke, Mark, all of the apostles, and even Paul, were completelyunaware of any “Trinity.” !!So what did exactly happen in this fourth centuryCE? Let us ask Mr. David F. Wright, a senior lecturer in EcclesiasticalHistory at the University of Edinburough. Mr. Wright has publisheda detailed account of the development of the doctrine of the “Trinity.”We read:”…Arius was a senior presbyter in chargeof Baucalis, one of the twelve ‘parishes’ of Alexandria. He wasa persuasive preacher, with a following of clergy and ascetics,and even circulated his teaching in popular verse and songs. Around318 CE, he clashed with Bishop Alexander. Ariusclaimed that Father alone was really God; the Son was essentiallydifferent from his father. He did not possess by nature or rightany of the divine qualities of immortality, sovereignty, perfectwisdom, goodness, and purity. He did not exist before he was begottenby the father. The father produced him as a creature. Yet as thecreator of the rest of creation, the son existed ‘apart from timebefore all things’. Nevertheless, he did not share in the beingof God the Father and did not know him perfectly.” Wrightgoes on to demonstrate in this book how before the third centuryCE the “three” were separate in Christian belief andeach had his or it’s own status.”Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity,”chapter on “Councils and Creeds,”Tertullian (155-220AD), alawyer and presbyter of the third-century Church in Carthage,was the first Christian to coin the word “Trinity” whenhe put forth the theory that the Son and the Spirit participatein the being of God, but all are of one being of substance withthe Father (Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, V4, p. 711).About this time, two separate events were about tolead up to the official recognition of the church by the Romanempire. On the one hand, Emperor Constantine,the pagan emperor of the Romans, began to notice the increasingnumber of converts to the new faith among his subjects. They wereno longer a petty fringe sect of no great concern to the empire,rather, their presence was becoming increasingly noticeable, andthe severe division and animosity between their ranks was beginningto pose a serious threat to the internal stability of the empireas a whole.On the Christian front, controversy over the matterof the Trinity had in 318C.E. once again just blown up betweentwo church men from Alexandria, Arius, the deacon,and Alexander, his bishop. Now Emperor Constantinestepped into the fray. The emperor sent these men many lettersencouraging them to put aside their “trivial” disputesregarding the nature of God and the “number” of God,etc. To one who had become accustomed to being surrounded by countlessgods, and goddesses, and demi-gods, and man-gods, and incarnationsof gods, and resurrections of gods, and so forth, the issue ofwhether a given sect worshipped one god or three gods or “threegods in one” was all very trivial and inconsequential.After several repeated attempts by the emperor topacify them failed, he finally found himself in 325 CE faced withtwo serious controversies that divided his Christian subjects:the observance of the Passover on Easter Sunday,and the concept of the Trinity. Emperor Constantinerealized that a unified church was necessary for a strong kingdom.When negotiations failed to settle the dispute, the emperor calledthe “Council of Nicea”in order to resolve these, and other matters. The council metand voted on whether Jesus (pbuh) was God or not. They effectivelyvoted Jesus into the position of God with an amendment condemningall Christians who believed in the unity of God. There is evenextensive proof that most of those who signed this decree didnot actually believe in it or understand it but thought it politicallyexpedient to do so. Neo-Platonic philosophy was the means by whichthis newly defined doctrine of “Trinity” was formulated.One of the attendees, Apuleius, wrote “I pass over insilence,” explaining that “those sublime andPlatonic doctrines understood by very few of the pious, and absolutelyunknown to every one of the profane.” The vast majorityof the others signed under political pressure consoling themselveswith such words as “the soul is nothing worse for a littleink.” It is narrated that out of the 2030 attendees,only 318 readily accepted this creed (“Al-Seerah Al-Nabawiyya”,Abu Al-Hassan Al-Nadwi, p. 306). They then approved the doctrineof homoousious meaning: of "CO-EQUALITY,CO-ETERNITY,AND CONSUBSTANTIALITY" of the second person of theTrinity with the Father. The doctrine became known as the Creedof Nicea.Only on returning home did other attendees such asEusebius of Nicomedia, Maris of Chaledon and Theognis of Nicaeasummon the courage to express to Constantinein writing how much they regretted having put their signaturesto the Nicene formula: “We committed an impious act, OPrince,” wrote Eusebius of Nicomedia, “by subscribingto a blasphemy from fear of you.”However, the damage was already done and there wouldbe no undoing it now. It has been recorded that thirteen conferenceswere held in the fourth century wherein Arius andhis beliefs were condemned. On the other hand, fifteen supportedhim. While seventeen conferences issued decrees similar to thebeliefs of the Arians (“Al-Seerah Al-Nabawiyya”, AbuAl-Hassan Al-Nadwi, p. 306).Of the fruits of this council, Jesus (pbuh) was made”Very God.” Shortly thereafter, his mother Mary (pbuh)was given the title of “Ever Virgin.” It would not belong until these concepts were later combined in 431AD to giveher the title “Theotokos” (God-bearing). This is howshe became known to us as “Mother of God.”The persecution of the Jews was just now gettinginto full swing and with it a severe disdain and intolerance forall Christians who did not convert to the new creeds. The booksof Arius and his sympathizers were ordered to be burnt,and a reign of terror proclaimed for all those who did not conformwith the new, “official” Christian beliefs. The followingis one of the public declarations in this regard:”Understand now by this present statute,Novatians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Paulinians, you who arecalled Cataphrygians … with what a tissue of lies and vanities,with what destructive and venomous errors, your doctrines areinextricably woven! We give you warning… Let none of you presume,from this time forward, to meet in congregations. To prevent this,we command that you be deprived of all the houses in which youhave been accustomed to meet .. . and that these should be handedover immediately to the catholic [i.e. official] church.”Following the Conference of Nicea,the matter of the “Trinity” remained far from settled.Despite high hopes for such on the part of Constantine,Arius and the new bishop of Alexandria, a man namedAthanasius, began arguing over the matter evenas the Nicene Creed was being signed; “Arianism” becamea catch-word from that time onward for anyone who didn’t holdto the newly defined doctrine of the Trinity. Athanasius, thebishop who is popularly credited for having formulated this doctrine,confessed that the more he wrote on the matter, the more his thoughtsrecoiled upon themselves and the less capable he was of clearlyexpressing his thoughts regarding it. After the Council of Chalcedonin 451, debate on the matter was no longer tolerated; to speakout against the Trinity was now considered blasphemy and earnedstiff sentences that ranged from mutilation to death. Christiansnow turned on Christians, maiming and slaughtering thousand becauseof this difference of belief.Some people might object that the words of all ofthese eminent Christian scholars and highly respected referencesare all in error. They claim that Jesus (pbuh) did indeed teachthe “Trinity” to the disciples, but that he did so insecret to them alone. The disciples then went on and secretlytaught others, and then a couple of centuries later it was madepublic knowledge. However, not only is this theory based uponno evidence from the Bible, but it actually contradicts the wordsof Jesus himself:”Jesus answered him, I spake openly to theworld; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whitherthe Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.”John 18:20Worship of the Roman sun-god was very popular duringthe third century CE among the pagan Gentiles as it had been forcenturies before that. As had become the popular custom, EmperorConstantine (who presided over the council ofNicea) was popularly considered tobe the “manifestation” or “incarnation”of the supreme Roman sun-god. For this reason, in order to pleaseConstantine, the Trinitarian church compromised with him on thefollowing points:

• They defined Christmas to beon the 25th of December, the birthday of the Roman sun-god
• They moved the Christian Sabbathfrom Saturday to the Roman Sun-day (Dies Soli), the holyday of the sun-god Apollo (see chapter 3)
• They borrowed the emblem of the Roman sun God,the cross of light, to be the emblem of Christianity.Before this, the official symbol of Christianity was that of afish, a symbol of the last supper (see chapter 3)
• They incorporated most of the rituals performedon the sun-god’s birthday into their own celebrations.

Muhammad Ata’ Ur Rahim records that Constantinewas determined that the masses not think that he had forced thesebishops to sign against their will, so he resorted to a miracleof God: Stacks of somewhere between 270 and 4,000 Gospels (onecopy of all available Gospels at the time) were placed underneaththe conference table and the door to the room was locked. TheBishops were told to pray earnestly all night, and the next morning”miraculously” only the Gospels acceptable to Athanasius(The Trinitarian Bishop of Alexandria) were found stacked abovethe table. The rest were burned. (Jesus Prophet of Islam, Muhammad’Ata ur-Rahim).”The reign of Constantine marks the epochof the transformation of Christianity from a religion into a politicalsystem; and though, in one sense, that system was degraded intoidolatry, in another it had risen into a development of the oldGreek mythology. The maxim holds good in the social as well asin the mechanical world, that, when two bodies strike, the formof both is changed. Paganism was modified by Christianity; Christianityby Paganism. In the Trinitarian controversy, which first brokeout in Egypt – Egypt, the land of the Trinities – the chief pointin discussion was to define the position of ‘the Son.'” History of the Conflict between Religion and Science,Prof. John Draper, pp. 52-53Those among the Children of Israel who disbelievedwere cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, son of Mary. Thatwas because they disobeyed and were ever transgressing. They usednot to forbid one another from the evil which they committed.Vile indeed was what they used to do. You see many of them takingthe disbelievers as their protectors and helpers. Evil indeedis that which their ownselves had sent forward before them, forthat (reason) Allah’s Wrath fell upon them and in torment theywill abide. And had they believed in Allah, and in the Prophet(Muhammad, pbuh) and in what has been revealed to him, never wouldthey have taken them (the disbelievers) as protectors and helpers,but many of them are the rebellious, the disobedient to Allah.The noble Qur’an, Al-Maidah(5):78-82History was repeating itself. God had cautioned theJews in the past to never give concession in their religion tothe non-believers. They, however, disobeyed Him and felt thata little compromise here and there might go a long way towardsfacilitating “the greater good” and the continuationof the faith. This trend was now repeating itself. A small compromisehere and a little concession there, it would not be long untilall remaining differences would be resolved. But at what price?This is indeed why God’s last prophet, Muhammad(pbuh)was once again cautioned to never give the slightest consessionin God’s religion no matter how tempting the pagan polythiestsmight make their offers.Noon. (God swears) By the pen and what the(angels)write (in the Records of men). You (O Muhammad pbuh) are not,by the Grace of your Lord, a madman. And verily, for you willbe an endless reward. And verily, you are upon an exalted character.Verily, you will see, and they will see, Which of you is afflictedwith madness. Verily, your Lord knows best who has gone astrayfrom His Path, and He knows best those who are guided. So obeynot the deniers. They wish that you should compromise (in religionout of courtesy) with them, so they (too) would compromise withyou. The noble Qur’an, Al-Qalam(68):1-9Many more sweeping campaigns for the utter andcompletedestruction of all “unacceptable” gospels to the TrinitarianChurch would be launched over the following centuries. One exampleof such campaigns is the one launched during the period of 379-395AD during the reign of the Christian Emperor Flavius Theodosiuswherein all non-Roman Catholic Christian writings were destroyed,or the campaign of Christian Emperor Valentinian III (425-454AD)which again commanded that all surviving non-Roman Catholic writingsbe utterly destroyed. Such campaigns would become the norm inthe centuries to come.Muhammad ‘Ata ur-Rahim informs us in his book thatArius was quickly condemned and then excommunicated.He was reinstated, but was poisoned and killed by the TrinitarianBishop, Athanasius, in 336 CE. The TrinitarianChurch called his death “a miracle.” Athanasius’s treacherywas discovered by a council appointed by Costanatine and he wascondemned for Arius’ murder. (Jesus Prophet of Islam, Muhammad’Ata ur-Rahim)Constantine had made it an imperiallaw to accept the Creed of Nicea.He was a pagan emperor and at the time cared little if such adoctrine contradicted the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) and the centuriesof prophets of God before him who had suffered severe hardshipin order to preach a monotheistic god to their people as can beseen in the Old Testament to this day. He just wanted to pacifyand unite his “sheep.” Ironically, Mr. Ata’ Ur Rahimrecords that Constantine embraced the beliefs of the Arians, wasbaptized on his death bed in 337 by an Arian priest and died shortlythereafter. In other words, he died a believer in the divine Unityand teachings of the Arians and not the new Trinitarian beliefsof the Athanasiun sect.This “triune God” theory was not a novelconcept but one that was very much in vogue during the early Christianera. There was:

1. The Egyptian triad of Ramses II,Amon-Ra, and Nut.
2. The Egyptian triad of Horus, Osiris,and Isis.
3. The Palmyra triad of moon god, Lord of theHeavens,and sun god.
4. The Babylonian triad of Ishtar,Sin, and Shamash.
5. The Mahayana Buddhist triune of transformationbody, enjoyment body, and truth body.
6. The Hindu triad (Tri-murti) of Brahma,Vishnu, and Siva.

…and so forth (please read chapter three for more).However, it is popularly recognized that the “Trinity”which had the most profound effect in defining the Christian “Trinity”was the philosophy of the Greek philosopher, Plato.His philosophy was based on a threefold distinction of: The “FirstCause”, the “Reason” or Logos, andthe “Soul or Spirit of the Universe” (please see section1.2.2.6). Edward Gibbon, considered one ofthe Western world’s greatest historians, and the author of “Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire,” generally considered a masterpieceof both history and literature writes in this book:”..His poetical imagination sometimes fixedand animated these metaphysical abstractions; the three archicalor original principles with each other by the mysterious and ineffablegeneration; and the Logos was particularly considered under themore accessible character of the Son of an eternal Father, andthe Creator and Governor of the world.” “Decline and fall of the Roman Empire,”II, Gibbon, p. 9.Even the practice of promoting men to the statusof gods was common among the Gentiles at the time. Julius Caesar,for instance, was acknowledged by the Ephesians to be “agod made manifest and a common Savior of all humanlife.” In the end, both the Greeks and the Romans acknowledgedCaesar as a god. His statue was set up in a temple in Rome withthe inscription: “To the unconquerable god.”Another man who was elevated by the Gentiles to the status ofa god was Augustus Caesar. He was acknowledged as a god and the”divine Savior of the World.” Emperor Constantinewas also popularly believed to be the human embodiment of theRoman Sun-god. And on and on. Is it inconceivable that such people,after hearing of Jesus’ (pbuh) many miracles, of his raising ofthe dead, of his healing of the blind, would consider elevatinghim to the status of a god? These were simple people who had becomeaccustomed to countless man-gods, and Jesus (pbuh) had becomea legend among them even during his lifetime. No wonder it didnot take them long to make him a god after his departure. In theGospel of Barnabas, Jesus himself indeedforetold that mankind would make him a god and severely condemnedthose who would dare to do so (see chapter 7). The Bible itselfbears witness to the fact that these gentiles were all too willingto promote not just Jesus (pbuh), but even the apostles of Jesusto the position of gods (see Acts 14:1-14).Moreover, the concept of resurrection was also nota novel one. The Greeks, like many other pagans, worshipped theearth and associated it’s fertility with the fertility of woman.Many earth-mother goddesses arose out of this belief, such asAphrodite, Hera, and so on. With this earth-mother goddess camethe concept of a man-god who personified the vegetation cycleand often the sun cycle. In the case of Osirus, Baal,and Cronus, he also represented a deceased king worshippedas divine. This man-god was always assumed to have been born onthe 21st or 25th of Decemberso as to correspond to the winter solstice (timeof year when the sun is “born”). Forty days later, orabout the time of Easter, he had to be slain,laid in a tomb, and resurrected afterthree days so that his blood could be shed upon the earthin order to maintain or restore the fertility of the earth andin order to provide salvation for his worshipers.This was a sign to the believers that they too would enjoy eternallife. This man-god was usually called the “Soter”(Savior). This “Soter” sometimesstood alone, but usually was “The third, the savior”or “The savior who is third.” This man-god wouldbe defeated and usually torn into pieces and his enemy would prevail.At this time, life would appear to have been sucked out of theearth. There would then come a third being who would bring backthe dead god, or himself be the dead god restored. He would defeatthe enemy. This is dealt with in a little more detail in chapterthree.For more and to learn the details of how thePharisaicadaptation of the cult of Mithra influenced Paulin his reworking of the religion of Jesus, please read “MohammedA Prophesy Fulfilled,” by H. Abdul Al-Dahir. You arealso encouraged to read “Islam and Christianity in themodern world,” by Dr. Muhammad Ansari, “Biblemyths and their parallels in other religions” by T. W.Doane, and “The history of Christianity in the Light ofModern Knowledge; a collective work,” Blackie & sonlimited, 1929.Does any of this sound at all familiar? Is it justan amazing coincidence that Paul’s “New covenant”which he preached to these pagan Gentiles ended up three centurieslater so closely resembling their established beliefs, or didGod intentionally mold His religion after the departure of Jesus(pbuh) in order to closely resemble that of the pagan Gentiles?Remember Paul’s own words:”All things are lawful unto me, but all thingsare not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will notbe brought under the power of any.” 1 Corinthians 6:12and “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew,that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, asunder the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;To them that are without law, as without law, … I am madeall things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.”1 Corinthians 9:20-22.But more on this later.Even though the “Trinity” was formulatedin the council of Nicea, still, theconcept of “Jesus was God,” or the “incarnation”(mentioned above by Mr. J.) was not formulated until after thecouncils of Ephesus in 431, and thecouncil of Chalcedone in 451:”…the Catholics trembled on the edge ofa precipice, where it was impossible to recede, dangerous to stand,dreadful to fall; and the manifold inconveniences of their creedwere aggravated by the sublime character of their theology. Theyhesitated to pronounce that God Himself, the second person ofan equal and consubstantial trinity, was manifested in the flesh;that a being who pervades the universe, hadbeen confined in the womb of Mary; that His eternal duration hadbeen marked by the days, and months, and years, of human existence;that the Almighty had been scourged and crucified; that His impassableessence had felt pain and anguish; that His omniscience was notexempt from ignorance; and that the source of life and immortalityexpired on Mount Cavary. These alarming consequences were affirmedwith the unblushing simplicity of Apollinans, Bishop of Laodicia,and one of luminaries of the church.” “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,”VI, Gibbon, p. 10.Groliers encyclopedia under the heading of”Incarnation”informs us that”Incarnation denotes the embodiment of adeity in human form. The idea occurs frequently in mythology.In ancient times, certain people, especially kings and priests,were often believed to be divinities. In Hinduism, Vishnu is believedto have taken nine incarnations, or Avatars. For Christians, theincarnation is a central dogma referringto the belief that the eternal son of God, thesecond person of the Trinity, became man in the person of JesusChrist. The incarnation was defined as a doctrine only after longstruggles by early church councils. The Council of Nicea(325) defined the deity of Christ against Arianism; the Councilof Constantinople (381) defined the full humanity of the incarnateChrist against Apollinarianism; the Council of Ephesus(431) defined the unity of Christ’s person against Nestorianism;and the Council of Chalcedon (451)defined the two natures of Christ, divine and human, against Eutyches.”Notice that it took the Church close to five hundredyears after the departure of Jesus to build up, justify, and finallyratify the “incarnation.” Also noticethat the apostles, their children, and their children’s childrenfor tens of generations were too ignorant to recognize the existenceof an “incarnation.” Jesus’ (pbuh) very first and veryclosest followers were too ignorant to recognize this “truth.”(for more on this topic, please read section 5.11)It is not surprising then, that this doctrine ofincarnation is not mentioned in the New Testament.Once again, the one verse which validates this claim, 1 Timothy3:16, is again recognized as a later forgery which was foistedupon Jesus (pbuh) fully six centuries after his departure:Regarding this verse, Sir Isaac Newtonsays:”In all the times of the hot and lastingArian controversy, it never came into play … they that read’God manifested in the flesh’ think it one of the most obviousand pertinent texts for the business.” Jesus, Prophet of Islam, Muhammad Ata’ Ur-Rahim,P. 157″This strong expression might be justifiedby the language of St. Paul (I TIM. 3.16), but we are deceivedby our modern Bibles. The word “o” (which) was alteredto “theos” (God) at Constantinople in the beginningof the 6th century: the true reading, which is visible in theLatin and Syriac version, still exists in the reasoning of theGreek, as well as the Latin fathers; and this fraud, with thatof the three witnesses of St. John, is admirably detected by SirIsaac Newton.” “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,”VI, Gibbon, p. 10.Notice how, shortly after the “incarnation”was officially approved, it was recognized that the Bible neededto be “corrected” and “clarified” so thatthe reader could see the “incarnation” clearly. Allthat was needed was to change one word. Thus 1 Timothy 3:16 wentfrom saying:Before the inspired sixth century “correction”:”And without controversy great is the mysteryof godliness: which was manifest in the flesh, justified in theSpirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed onin the world, received up into glory.” tosaying:After the inspired sixth century “correction”:”And without controversy great is the mysteryof godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in theSpirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed onin the world, received up into glory”Thankfully, more recent and faithful versions ofthe Bible such as the Revised Standard Version (RSV) are now beginningto discard such innovations. Much is yet to be desired, however,it is a start.Even the holy “Easter” holidayis a pagan innovation unknown to Jesus (pbuh) and his apostles.The name “Easter” is derived from the pagan spring festivalof the Anglo-Saxon goddess of light and spring “Eostre”(or “Eastre”) and to whom the month of April was dedicated.Many folk customs associated with Easter such as colored Eastereggs (representing the sunlight of spring in her festival), theEaster bunny (a symbol of fertility) are of pagan origin also.Her festival was celebrated on the vernal equinox(March 21st), and so too is the Christian “Easter.”It was celebrated to commemorate spring and the sun regainingit’s strength. Once again, the “Son” Jesus (pbuh), regainedhis power and came to life at the same time (see chapter threefor more).After the council of Nicea,325C.E., the following proud proclamation was made:”We also send you good news concerning theunanimous consent of all, in reference to the celebration of themost solemn feast of Easter; for the difference has also beenmade up by the assistance of your prayers; so that all the brethrenof the east, who formerly celebrated this festival at the sametime as the Jews, will in future conform to the Romans and tous and to all who have of old observed our manner of celebratingEaster.”For much, much more on the topic of the paganinfluenceon today’s “Christianity,” please read the books “Islamand Christianity in the modern world,” by Dr. Muhammad Ansari,and “Bible myths and their parallels in other religions”by T. W. Doane.As mentioned above, the very first Christians wereall devout Jews. These first followers of Jesus (including theapostles themselves) followed the same religion which Moses(pbuh) and his followers had followed for centuries before them.They knew of no “new covenant” or annulmentsof the commandments of Moses (pbuh). They had been taught by Jesus(pbuh) that his religion was an affirmation of the religion ofthe Jews and a continuation of it.”The first fifteen Bishops of Jerusalem”writes Gibbon, “were all circumcisedJews; and the congregation over which they presided united theLaw of Moses with the Doctrine of Christ.” “Decline and fall of the Roman Empire,”II, Gibbon, p. 119.As we have seen in the previous sections, this factis indeed confirmed in the Bible where we are told that afterthe departure of Jesus, his faithful followers continued to keepup their daily attendance at the Temple of the Jews (the mostholy of Jewish synagogues) in observance of the religion of Moses.”And they, continuing daily with one accordin the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eattheir meat with gladness and singleness of heart,” Acts 2:46Also remember the words of Professor Robert Alley:”….The (Biblical) passages where Jesustalks about the Son of God are later additions…. what the churchsaid about him. Such a claim of deity for himself would not havebeen consistent with his entire lifestyle as we can reconstruct.For the first three decades after Jesus’ death Christianity continuedas a sect within Judaism. The first three decades of the existenceof the church were within the synagogue. That would have beenbeyond belief if they (the followers of Jesus) had boldly proclaimedthe deity of Jesus”This would also have been beyond belief if they hadpreached the total cancellation and destruction of the law ofMoses, as Paul did.Toland observes: “We know already to what degree impostureand credulity went hand in hand in the primitive times of theChristian Church, the last being as ready to receive as the firstwas to forge books, this evil grew afterwards not only greaterwhen the Monks were the sole transcribers and the sole keepersof all books good or bad, but in process of time it became almostabsolutely impossible to distinguish history from fable, or truthfrom error as to the beginning and original monuments of Christianity.How immediate successors of the Apostles could so grosslyconfound the genuine teaching of their masters with such as werefalsely attributed to them? Or since they were in the dark aboutthese matters so early how came such as followed them by a betterlight? And observing that such Apocryphal books wereoften put upon the same footing with the canonical books by theFathers, and the first cited as Divine Scriptures no less thanthe last, or sometimes, when such as we reckon divine were disallowedby them. I propose these two other questions: Why all the bookscited genuine by Clement of Alexander. Origen. Tertullianand the rest of such writers should not be accounted equally authentic?And what stress should he laid on the testimony of those Fatherswho not only contradict one another but are also often inconsistentwith themselves in their relations of the very same facts?”(emphasisadded). The Nazarenes, John Toland, pp. 73 (From: JesusProphetof Islam).Jesus (pbuh) himself did indeed foretell of thismost tragic situation:”They shall put you out of the synagogues:yea, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think thathe does God service And these things will they do unto you, becausethey have not known the Father, nor me. But these things haveI told you, that when the time shall come, you may remember thatI told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at thebeginning, because I was with you..”John 16:2-4Well then, why did the masses in the centuries afterthis not revolt and renew the original teaching of Jesus (pbuh)?Because the Bible was made the property of the privileged few.No one was allowed to read it, nor to translate it into otherlanguages. When these privileged few came into power in what wouldlater be called by the West “The Dark Ages,”(our more politically correct generation now prefers to referto it as “The Middle Ages”) the Bible was hoarded bythese men and they were claimed to be the only ones who couldunderstand it’s teachings. The first authoritative English translationof the Bible was completed by Mr. William Tyndale,popularly considered a master of both the Hebrew and Greek languages.The King James Bible was based upon his translation. He was forcedinto exile in 1524 and later condemned and burned to death asa heretic in 1536 for the vile and blasphemous deed of translatingthe Bible into English.With the rule of the church came the greatInquisitions.The Inquisitions were a medieval church court instituted to seekout and prosecute heretics. Notoriously harsh in its procedures,the Inquisition was defended during the rule of the church byappeal to biblical practices and to the church father Saint Augustinehimself (354-430 AD), the great luminary of the church, who hadinterpreted Luke 14:23 as endorsing the use of force againstheretics in order to convert them. Mr. Tom Harpurobserves”The horrors of the Crusades and the notoriousInquisitions are all but a small part of this tragic tale.”Okay, but surely of those who had access to the Biblethere must have been some who would have revealed these matters.As it happens, there were. Sadly, they were all put to death ortortured until they recanted their views. Their books were alsoburned. For instance, Isaac de la Peyere was one ofmany scholars to notice many serious discrepancies in the Bibleand to write about them openly. His book was banned and burned.He was arrested and informed that in order to be released he wouldhave to recant his views to the Pope. He did. There are countlesssuch examples for those who would simply research their historybooks.The Trinitarian church’s campaign of death andtorturefor all Christians refusing to compromise their beliefs continuedfor many centuries after the creation of the Trinityin 325 CE. Many brilliant scholars and leaders of the UnitarianChristians were condemned, tortured, and even burned alive ina very slow and drawn-out manner. Only some of these men are:Origen (185-254 CE), Lucian (died 312 CE), Arius (250-336CE), Michael Servetus (1511-1553 CE), Francis David (1510-1579CE), Lelio Francesco Sozini (1525-1562 CE), Fausto Paolo Sozini(1539-1604 CE), John Biddle (1615-1662 CE)… and on and on.This wholesale condemnation became so bad that itwas not sufficient to condemn individuals any more, but rather,whole nations were condemned and killed. An example is the Holydecree of 15th of February 1568 which condemned all of theinhabitants of the Netherlands to death as heretics.Three million men women and children where sentenced to the scaffoldin three lines by the benevolent Trinitarian church. Why doesno one cry “Holocaust” for these poor people?”Upon the 15th of February 1568, a sentenceof the Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlandsto death as heretics. From this universal doom only a few persons,especially named, were excepted. A proclamation of King PhilipII of Spain, dated ten days later, confirmed this decree of theInquisition, and ordered it to be carried into instant execution.. . Three millions of people, men, women and children, were sentencedto the scaffold in three lines. Under the new decree, the executionscertainly did not slacken. Men in the highest and the humblestpositions were daily and hourly dragged to the stake. Alva, ina single letter to Philip II, coolly estimates the number of executionswhich were to take place immediately after the expiration of HolyWeek at ‘eight hundred heads.'””Rise of the Dutch Republic” John LothropMotlyToland asks in his book TheNazarenes:”Since the Nazarenes and Ebonites (UnitarianChristians) are by all the Church historians unanimously acknowledgedto have been the first Christians, or those who believe in Christamong the Jews with which, his own people, he lived and died,they having been the witness of his actions, and of whom wereall the apostles, considering this, I say how it is possible forthem to be the first of all others (for they were made to be thefirst heretics), who should form wrong conceptions of the doctrinesand designs of Jesus? And how came the Gentiles who believed onhim after his death by the preaching of persons that never knewhim to have truer notions of these things, or whence they couldhave their information but from the believing Jews?” (emphasisadded). (From: Jesus a Prophet of Islam)Only today when true religious freedom, scientificknowledge, and archeological discoveries have come together inthe study of the Bible and other ancient documents have Christiansstarted to see the truth. An example of this can be found in theBritish newspaper the “Daily News” 25/6/84 under theheading “Shock survey of Anglican Bishops”We read that a British television poll of 31 of 39 Anglican Bishopsfound 19 to believe that it is not necessary for Christians tobelieve that Jesus (pbuh) is God, but only “His supreme agent.”Muslims too, strangely enough, have been told this over 1400 yearsago by God Almighty in the noble Qur’an. The Qur’an tells us thatJesus was not God nor the Son of God (in the orthodox sense),but only a very pious and elect servant and messenger of God.This is even testified to by Jesus (pbuh) himself in John 17:3″And this is life eternal, that they might know YOUthe ONLY true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have SENT.”1.2.6: The systematic destruction of thelaw of JesusJesus (pbuh) was a very devoutJew. No Jew could ever raise a finger at him and say why do younot observe the Sabbath? Why do you eat pork?Indeed, it is the apostles of Jesus and not Jesus himself whoare depicted in the NT as violating the law. The Bible tells usthat Jesus (pbuh) departed never having eaten pork, never havingviolated the Sabbath, divorce was disallowed except in adulteryduring his lifetime, he followed the law of Moses to theletter. However, Paul’s dreams have now legalized for allChristians that which Jesus (according to the Bible) died believingin.You will not find a single priest or evangelist whotells his Christian followers “to enter heaven, only keepthe commandments” (as his “Lord” did). The vastmajority of Christians today do not refrain from eating porknor do they observe the Sabbath as their “Lord”did, and died doing. There are so many differences between Christianstoday and Jesus and his actions. Christians in general followthe commandments of Paul and others who are given the power tototally cancel out all of the commandments of both Mosesand Jesus, and no Christian has any reservations whatsoever.Christianityis literally built around the premise that disciples of disciples,have the power to cancel the commandments of their prophets andeven the law practiced by the alleged Son of Godhimself.Let us look at this matter a little closer. Godcommandedthe Jews to observe a very disciplined dietary regimen. This iswhere the Jews get the word “Kosher” from. “Kosher”refers to all food that it is permissible for a Jew to eat. Amongthose food that God forbade upon all Jews was swine. For thisreason we find that Jesus (pbuh) considered pigs such filthy anddisgusting animals that not only did he never taste their flesh(incidentally, Muslims also live out their lives never havingtasted a single swine), but he literally considered them so lowlythat they were only fit as garbage dumps for devils. In Matthew8:31-32 we read”So the devils besought him, saying, If thoucast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine And hesaid unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went intothe herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violentlydown a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters..”However, shortly after Jesus’ departure, Paul makeslawful all of the creatures of the earth”If any of them that believe not bid you[to a feast], and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set beforeyou, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.”1 Corinthians 10:27In one tragic moment, Jesus’ lifetime of restraintwas casually swept under the carpet.Many people believe that the vision of Peter foundin Acts was the primary factor in the cancellation of this fundamentallaw of the Jews. However, Christian scholars today are well awarethat the writings of Paul are the oldest writings to be foundin the Bible. They were written between 50-60 AD while even thefour Gospels themselves were written decades later between 70-110C.E. Secondly, the book of Acts (70-90 AD) although popularlyconsidered to have been written by Paul, is now recognized tohave been written by some unknown author(s) other than Paul butwho was/were sympathetic to his cause.According to the Bible, Jesus (pbuh) spent his wholelife in strict adherence to the commandments of the law of Moses(pbuh). He departed leaving his followers with the following words:”Think not that I am come to destroy thelaw, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.For verily I say unto you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS,one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, tillall be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of theseleast commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall becalled the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoevershall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in thekingdom of heaven.”Matthew 5:17-19Paul’s dreams, however, have broken commandmentsright and left. There is so much of what Jesus (pbuh) did duringhis lifetime that his followers have now totally neglected, notbecause Jesus (pbuh) told them to break the commandments, butbecause Paul would later tell them to break them upon the authorityof the visions he was receiving.So, what we have concluded from the current viewof Jesus’ master plan is the following:1) Jesus (pbuh) lived among his people for thirtythree years showing them many miracles and teaching them to keepthe commandments of Moses, to observe the Sabbath,to refrain from eating pork, to circumcisetheir children, to fast with the Jews, to worship in the synagogues,and so forth. He did not do this with his words alone but gavethem an example in his own actions. Whenever hespoke about his miracles he claimed that he did them through “thefinger of God” and thathe “can of mine own self do nothing.”Whenever he spoke of worship he would say “worship the Father”and not “worship me,” “worship the Trinity,”or “worship us.” He also never said “I am a god.”The term “son of God” was used by hispeople for many millennia before him to describe a devout servantof God and applied in the Bible to many prophets before him andeven to common people. Further, God was understood by the peopleof his time to be the “Father” of all those who lovehim.2) For three centuries after the departure of Jesus(pbuh), his apostles and their followers (excluding Paul and hisfollowers) continued the tradition of Jesus (pbuh) as faithfulJews and followers of the law of Moses (pbuh). Theypracticed their worship in the synagogues of the Jews,they visited the Temple daily, and for all intents andpurposes were indistinguishable from all other Jews except forthe fact that they affirmed that Jesus (pbuh) was the promisedMessiah, which many Jews did not (and still do not) accept. Noneof these people, not even Paul, had ever heard of a “Trinity.”Jesus (pbuh) decided not to reveal his (and God’s) “true”nature until three centuries after his departure. He decided thatthree centuries after his departure it would be time to come tothe church and give them divine “inspiration” to “insert”verses in the Bible validating the “Trinity” (such as1 John 5:7). These “inspired” revelations from Jesusare documented by Christian historians to have been continuingat least up till the fifteenth century CE (see above). Jesus also”inspired” them to utterly destroy all Gospels writtenbefore this fourth century which did not teach this “true”nature of Jesus as being God. He further “inspired”the church to utterly destroy all ancient manuscripts writtenin the original Aramaic or Hebrew language of Jesus (pbuh) andthe apostles. He “inspired” them that the Greek andLatin manuscripts would be amply sufficient. And finally, he “inspired”them to launch a massive campaign of “inquiry” to “cleanse”the earth of all remaining Unitarian Christians or convert them.3) When Jesus (pbuh) departed, his followerscontinuedto faithfully follow his example and observe the laws of Moses.Now Paul comes along and persecutes the followers of Jesus everyway he knows how. He admits that:”For ye have heard of my conversation intime past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecutedthe church of God, and wasted it” Galatians 1:13 (also see Acts 7:58-60, 8:1-3)Now Jesus (pbuh) decides to bypass his apostles andgo directly to the worst persecutor of his followers on earthin a “vision” and give him knowledge not available tothe apostles. Paul now reveals that God holds all of mankindresponsiblefor the sin of Adam (Romans 5:11-19, 1 Corinthians15:22). God himself, however, claims long before Paul was everborn that”The fathers shall not be put to death forthe children, neither shall the children be put to death for thefathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin”Deuteronomy 24:16.and “The son shall not bear the iniquityof the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of theson” Ezekiel 18:20….etc.4) Paul further revealed that Jesus came to him invisions and told him to nullify the commandments of God whichhe had spent thirty three years on earth upholding and teachinghis followers to observe, and that these commandments “decayeth,”were ready to “vanish away,” and were a “curse”upon us. The only requirement in order to receive true salvation,according to Paul, is to believe in the original sin and the atonement.No actual work is necessary. This one belief is the only necessaryand sufficient condition. However, Jesus departed not only neverhaving violated the law of Moses but also having toldhis people that “till heaven and earth pass”whoever would dare to do so would be called “the leastin the kingdom of God.” Jesus (pbuh) was claimed to havebeen conditioned and prepared for “the atonement” fromthe beginning of time, however, whenever he was asked about thepath to heaven he not only never mentioned any atonement but only(repeatedly) told his followers to “keep the commandments.”Even when pressed for the path to perfection heonly told his followers to sell their belongings.5) Jesus never in his life saw fit to write a singleinspired word. However, after he died, he started appearing tocountless people in their dreams and visions and commanding themto write in his name and guiding their words. He did not see fitto guide their hands from writing conflicting versions of thesame story (chapter two) since these contradictions were intendedto strengthen a Christian’s faith.6) Since the only course to salvation is to acceptthe sacrifice of Jesus (pbuh) and the law of Mosesis worthless, therefore, God did not see fit to allow those bornbefore Jesus (pbuh) including countless previous prophets to enterheaven, but rather allowed them to remain stained with the sinof Adam and gave them a very strict and disciplinedlaw that was totally useless and could never relieve them of thishereditary stain. These people shall never receive true salvation.Only those after Jesus (pbuh) will receive true salvation (Romans3:28…etc.).1.2.7 Christianity’s true founder, Paul,admitsfabricationMuslims do not claim that Jesus’true disciples tampered with the Bible, but that others claimingto act in their names did so later on. This is attested to bythe fact that the Trinitarian church felt it necessary to totallyobliterate all Gospel manuscripts written before 325 AD when theyofficially introduced the “Trinity” tothe world. This is why we find such serious contradictions ineven the most basic of it’s teachings. For example, we are toldthat Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul) is the authorof the majority of the books of the New Testament.He is claimed to be the author of Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians,Galatians, Ephesians, Phillippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians,1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews. We would expectsuch a pivotal character in the Bible and the author of the majorityof the New Testament books to be able to keep his stories straightat least in such fundamental matters as how he became a Christianand was “saved.” However, we can find in the Bible asworn affidavit by Paul that he is guilty of fabrication. Soundincredible? Let us have a look:If we read Acts 9:19-29 and Acts 26:19-21, we willfind that Paul was busy persecuting the followers of Jesus inJerusalem and dragging them from their homes to be tortured, killedor converted, when suddenly one day he decided to branch out andpersecute them in Damascus. For this reason, he goes to the HighPriest asking for letters sanctioning such actions in Damascus.Why he would do this since the High Priest of Jerusalem had noauthority over Damascus remains a mystery to many, however, letus continue.Shortly after setting out to continue his evil workin Damascus, Paul is supposed to have “seen the Lord inthe way” and accepted Christianityafter being a staunch enemy of Christians and having become famousfor his severe persecution of them. Barnabas (one of the apostlesof Jesus) then supposedly vouched for him with the other apostlesand convinced them to accept him. Paul then went with all of theapostles on a preaching campaign in and out of Jerusalemand all of Judaea preaching boldly to it’s people. Paulthen appointed himself the twelfth apostle of Jesus (in placeof Judas who had the devil in him) as seen in his own books Romans1:1, 1 Corinthians 1:1 ..etc..The verses mentioned are:”And when he (Paul) had received meat, hewas strengthened. Then was Saul (Paul) certain days with the discipleswhich were at Damascus. And straightway he preached Christ inthe synagogues, that he is the Son of God. But all that heardhim were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed themwhich called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for thatintent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jewswhich dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. Andafter that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel tokill him: But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watchedthe gates day and night to kill him. Then the disciples took himby night, and let him down by the wall in a basket. And when Saulwas come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples:but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he wasa disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles,and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way andthat he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascusin the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and goingout at Jerusalem. And he spake boldly in the name of the LordJesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went aboutto slay him.”Acts 9:19-29″Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedientunto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus,and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, andthen to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,and do works meet for repentance. For these causes the Jews caughtme in the temple, and went about to kill me.”Acts 26:19-21Contradicted by:”But when it pleased God, who separated mefrom my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal hisSon in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediatelyI conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalemto them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia,and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I wentup to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lienot. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which werein Christ: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted usin times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.”Galatians 1:15-23With regard to the first two passages, Reverend Dr.Davies in “The First Christian,” says: “Theseassertions are not inconsistent with each other, but are damagingfor another reason,: they are contradicted by Paul himself inhis letter to the Galatians (Chapters 1 and 2).” Rev.Davies draws attention to Paul’s oath: “Now concerningthe things which I write to you, indeed, before God I do not lie,”which makes his account a sworn affidavit. He goes on to say:”To the story in Acts, this contradictionis disastrous. There never was a teaching campaign at Jerusalemand through all of the county of Judea (Acts 26:20). If Paul wasunknown to the Judean communities as he says, then he had undertakenno mission among them. In fact he had never joined the Judeanmovement or even attempted to join it. He only saw Cephas, andJesus’ brother James. Even of the other apostles, not to mentionmore ordinary believers, ‘I saw none’ he admits. Instead of hishaving gone ‘in and out of Jerusalem, preaching boldly in thename of the Lord’ the Jerusalem community had not even known thathe was there. ‘They only heard’ he tells us ‘that he who oncepersecuted us now makes the faith of which he made havoc’; butthey never heard him preach it in Judea.”Rev. Davies concludes that”..if there is any portion of the New Testamentthat is authentic, it is Paul’s letter to the Galatians. If wecannot rely upon this letter, we can rely upon nothing and mayas well close our inquiry. But the fact is that we can rely uponit. The letter to the Galatians is from Paul himself and by everytest is genuine.””The First Christian,” A Powell Davies,Farrar Straus & Cudahy, pp. 30-31According to the narration in Acts, Paul saw hisalleged vision. “Straightway” he began preaching inthe synagogues of Damascus. He built up a reputation through hisbold preaching that amazed the masses. He confounded the Jewsof Damascus. Many days later, the Jews tried to kill himso he escaped to Jerusalem. He met Barnabas who introduced himto the apostles for the first time. They were all terrifiedof Paul, but Barnabas convinced them to accept him. Now Paul andall of the apostles went on a preaching campaign in andout of Jerusalem speakingboldly in the name of Jesus.However, according to the narration in Galatians,Paul saw his alleged vision. “Immediately” he did NOTconfer with “flesh and blood” nor did he go to Jerusalemto see the apostles, but rather he traveled to Arabia then backto Damascus. He mentions no preaching in any of these places.After at least three years he goes to Jerusalem for thefirst time and meets only Peter and James and no other apostles.He stays with them for fifteen days but, once again, he mentionsno preaching campaign either with all of the apostles, with someof them, or alone. He also has never been here in the past norperformed a preaching campaign here in the past since he is unknownby face to them and they have “heard only” of his claimedconversion.Some of the contradictions are:1) Galatians claims that after his alleged vision,Paul “Immediately” spoke to “no fleshand blood” but rather traveled to Arabia and then toDamascus. So he did not “straightway,” if atall, preach boldly in Damascus as claimed by Acts (How long wouldit take to travel from Damascus to Arabia to Damascus? Could hego and come back “straightway”?).2) According to Galatians, Paul did not go toJerusalemwhere the apostles were. Rather, he went to Arabia then to Damascus.Now, after at least THREE YEARS (not many days), he goes to Jerusalem.It explicitly states that “Neither went I up to Jerusalemto them which were apostles.” So this is claimed to behis FIRST visit to Jerusalem after his claimed vision. This FIRSTvisit is claimed to have occurred at least THREE YEARS after Paul’salleged vision. However, Acts claims that MANY DAYS after hisvision he traveled to Jerusalem and performed a bold preachingcampaign with all the apostles. Acts also mentions nointermediatejourney to Arabia.3) According to Galatians, upon Paul’s arrival inJerusalem he met Peter and James and no other apostles.He can not have met any apostles in Jerusalem before this becausehe claims that immediately after his vision “Neither wentI up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles” Rather,it claims that he FIRST went to Jerusalem at least “threeyears” after his claimed vision. On the other hand, Actsclaims that the first time he met the apostles was many days afterhis claimed vision at which time he met ALL of the apostles. Thistoo is obviously his first meeting with them since they all fearedhim. Notice the words “they were ALL afraid of him.”This would not be the case if Peter and James had already methim since even if they had never mentioned him to the other apostles,still, at the very least they themselves (Peter and James) wouldnot fear him. Also notice that it was only Barnabas who stoodup for him and not Barnabas, Peter, and James.4) Galatians claims that after Paul’s first visitto Jerusalem all the apostles feared him but then Barnabas convincedthem to accept him and they ALL went hand in hand “inand out of Jerusalem” preaching “boldly”to the Jews. However, Acts claims that his first visit to Jerusalemwas after THREE YEARS and upon this FIRST visit he met ONLY Peterand James. He is not claimed to have gone with Peter and Jameson a preaching campaign in and out of Jerusalem,nor could he have done so in the past with ALL of the apostlessince if he had done so he would not have been “unknownby face to the churches of Judea,” they would also nothave “heard only” of his conversion but wouldhave eye-witnessed his bold campaign with all of the apostleswith their own eyes.If the author of the majority of the books of theNew Testament can not even keepthe narration of his own “salvation” straight then howare we expected to believe him in such critical matters as the”true” meanings of Jesus’ words, or other matters?The fact that Paul never actually met Jesus duringhis lifetime, never traveled with him, ate with him, or learneddirectly from him would obviously make the apostles of Jesus thefirst source of guidance for those followers of Jesus who wishedto know what Jesus taught. Jesus’ apostles also did not have aprevious history of persecuting his followers. The only reasonwhy anyone might want to bypass the apostles to speak to Paulis if Paul began to receive a series of holy visions from Jesus.The apostles did not claim to be receiving visions from Jesus,so obviously, Paul’s claims that he was receiving divine visionsfrom Jesus would go a long way towards drawing the followers ofJesus away from them and to his interpretation of the messageof Jesus. Paul himself proudly proclaims that he has no need oflearning from any human being, not even the apostles, he is completelyindependent of their knowledge and all he needs is his visions:”But I certify you, brethren, that the gospelwhich was preached of me is not after man. For I neither receivedit of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation ofJesus Christ.” Galatians 1:11-12As we shall soon see, a direct result of thisunwillingnessto receive anything from the apostles or to learn from them resultedin Paul following the sad trend of never being able to verifyhis claims through words of Jesus. It is next to impossible tofind Paul quoting Jesus when attempting to spread his doctrine,rather, he always refers to his own personal philosophy basedupon “visions” he claims to be receiving and inspirationsfrom the Holy Ghost. When he would differ with an apostle on agiven matter, he could not claim to have first hand knowledgeof the teachings of Jesus since he had never met him. Therefore,he found it necessary to always resort to extensive philosophizationand then claim that Jesus and the Holy Ghost were “inspiring”this philosophy. As we shall see below, he claimed to have beensingled out from among all of mankind to receive visions deniedall of the apostles, and to have been allowed through this inspirationto gain new converts “by all means.”He also would claim that “All things are lawfulunto me.”The careful reader will notice many other holes inthe story of Paul’s alleged “conversion.” For instance,in Acts 22:9 Paul claims that when he spoke to Jesus (pbuh), thosetraveling with him “saw the light,” but “theyheard not the voice.” While in Acts 9:7 thosewho were with Paul are claimed to have “stood speechless,hearing a voice, but seeing no man.” Don’t takemy word for it, by all means”prove all things.” The teachings of Christianityas they are known today are built upon the claims of Paul, theauthor of the majority of the books of the New Testament.He is trusted blindly because he claims to have seen Jesus (pbuh)in a heavenly vision, to have been vouched for by the apostleBarnabas, to have met and been accepted by all of the apostles,to have preached with all the apostles boldly in the nameof Jesus throughout the land of Judaea, and as a result of thisto have endured severe hardship and persecution. However, anyonewho would simply read their Bible will find that Paul himselfswears in the name of God Almighty that this is a fabricationbecause Judaea had never even seen his face and had “heardonly” of his alleged conversion. Further, he never met anyof the apostles save Peter and James. Even with all of this thechurch insists that we interpret the words of Jesus within thecontext of Paul’s teachings.There are so many more similar examples of how Paulopenly and blatantly made major changes to the religion of Jesusthat flagrantly contradicted both the teachings of Jesus and hisapostles. Another example can be seen in the following analysis:God Almighty commands in the OT:”This is my Covenant, which ye shall keep,between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child amongyou shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcisethe flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenantbetwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcisedamong you, every man child in your generations, he that is bornin the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is notof thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is boughtwith thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shallbe in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcisedman child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, thatsoul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”Genesis 17:10-14So, according to the OT, God himself is telling usthat His covenant can only be had through circumcision. Thesignificanceof circumcision was also noted by Biblical scholars as being notmerely an external act:”This was His own sign and seal that Israelwas a chosen people. Through it a man’s life was linked with greatfellowship whose dignity was it’s high consciousness that it mustfulfill the purpose of God” Interpreter’s Bible, p. 613Circumcision was considered of such criticalimportance to Jewish faith that they would even violate the Sabbathto circumcise their children if the eighth dayfell on the Sabbath.”and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision, that the lawof Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I havemade a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day?” John 7:22Jesus himself was circumcised on the eighth day justlike all faithful Jews:”And when eight days were accomplished forthe circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS.”Luke 2:21John the Baptist was alsocircumcised (Luke 1:59). After the departure of Jesus, circumcisionbecame an issue of personal conflict between the apostle Peterwho insisted upon it (preach to Jews only) and Paul who wantedto do away with it (preach to non-Jews also).”I had been entrusted with the gospel forthe uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospelfor the circumcised.” Galatians 2:7Paul then goes into great details about how theapostleswere wrong and he was right and how even Barnabas followed intheir “hypocrisy”and it was necessary for him to show the apostles the truth (inthe King James Version, the actual word used by Paul in Galatians2:13 is diplomatically translated as “dissimulation..”However, in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible which wascompiled from more ancient manuscripts than the KJV, the wordPaul used is honestly translated as “hypocrisy”).Paul now mentions James (James the Son of Thunder,James the Just), Peter (the Rock), and Barnabas (Paul’s teacherand protector) in the following manner:”I saw that they walked not uprightly accordingto the truth of the gospel.” Galatians 2:14So now it becomes apparent from Paul’s words that,in addition to all the above, the apostles were also misguided.It would have been interesting to have heard for instance Barnabas’version of these matters had he been chosen as the “majorityauthor” of the Bible rather than Paul. According to manysimilar passages, it seems that the apostles were constantly inneed of Paul’s guidance to recognize the truth. To get Barnabas’version of these matters, his opinion of Paul, as well as whatreally happened at the cross look for “The Gospelof Barnabas,” ISBN 0089295-133-1,at your local library, or obtain your copy from one of the addresseslisted at the back of this book.It is interesting to note that Paul himself was noteven sure about his own “visions.” We read:”It is expedient for me to boast; nothingis to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelationsof the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body,I cannot tell: God knoweth; such an one caught up to the thirdheaven. And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out ofthe body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; How that he was caught upinto paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawfulfor a man to utter. Of such an one will I glory: yet of myselfI will not glory, but in mine infirmities..” 2 Corinthians 12:1-5So Paul did not know if the man in his “visions”was “in the body” or “out of the body.” Paul’svision also contained “unspeakable words” which were”not lawful for a man to utter.”If I told you that I had seen someone in a “vision,”had heard “unspeakable words thatare not lawful to utter” in this vision, and had beencommanded by this person to nullify the commandments which Jesus(pbuh) had upheld his whole life and had commanded mankind touphold till the end of time, who would you say this described?Who had I seen?God Almighty says in the Qur’an: “And if it be said unto them: Follow thatwhich Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, but we follow that whereinwe found our fathers. What! Even though the devil was invitingthem to the torture of the fire?” The noble Qur’an, Lukman(31):21.What is wrong with this picture? Even if we wereto disregard Paul’s sworn admission of fabrication and were toaccept the established beliefs of Paul’s inspiration and infallibility(a very big “if”), then we are still left with the followingpicture:Paul, a man who according to his own admission”beyondmeasure” severely persecuted countless Christians “slaughtered”them, and also “wasted”the church (Galatians 1:13-15, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1-2, Acts 9:41,Acts 6:5.. etc.), a man who never met Jesus face to face, underwenta miraculous conversion from a persecutor and killer of Christiansinto a more perfect teacher of Christianity thanthe apostles themselves. He was singled out by Jesus’ ghost toreceive “visions” which were denied the apostles whohad accompanied Jesus (pbuh) during his lifetime (Galatians 1:10-12).Paul had acquired such a terrible reputation as a persecutor ofChristians that no one was willing to accept his claims of conversion.It was only the intervention of the apostle Barnabas, who’s wordsobviously carried a great deal of weight with the rest of theapostles, which allowed the apostles to grudgingly accept him.Barnabas then traveled extensively with Paul building up his reputationamong the Jews as a true convert. Once Paul acquired a reputationof his own, he had a falling out with Barnabas (Acts 15:39, Galatians2:13). They parted company. Paul now claimed that Jesus (pbuh)wanted him to “relax” the law in order to make it alittle more palatable for new converts, and this is when Paulbegan to make drastic changes to the law of Jesus (pbuh).Paul decided that his visions were sufficientauthorityto contradict the teachings of the apostles and consider themhypocrites. Even Barnabas, the apostle who traveled with Paulteaching him and preaching to the Jews, who was willing to acceptthis persecutor of Christians claims of conversion at face value,and the man who single handedly convinced all of the apostlesto accept this same persecutor of Christians is now consideredby Paul a hypocrite and less able to understand the religion ofJesus (pbuh) than himself. Paul also believed that”…I labored more abundantly than they (theapostles) all” 1 Corinthians 15:10.So, the apostles of Jesus were such lazy layaboutsthat Paul was doing more work than all eleven of them put together.All of this even though the apostles spent countless years withJesus (pbuh) learning directly from him while Paul, who has nevermet Jesus in person, practically overnight transforms from a persecutorand killer of Christians and the apostles to a more perfectteacher of Christianity than the apostles themselves. It is quitelucky for us that Paul received these “visions,” otherwisewe might have been lead astray by the lazy, misguided, hypocriticalapostles. For Barnabas’ version of these matters, read “TheGospel of Barnabas.”Let us time out for a quick analyses of the aboveverses:

1. Jesus (pbuh), during his lifetime on earth,commandsmankind to strictly and uncompromisingly observe the religionof Moses till the end of time (Matthew 5:18). He tellsthem that observing the religion of Moses and selling their belongingsshall make them “prefect.” (Luke 18:18-22).
2. After the departure of Jesus, Paul, accordingto his own admission “beyond measure” severelypersecuted countless Christians, strove to “slaughter”them, and also “wasted”the church (Galatians 1:13-15, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1-2, Acts 9:41,Acts 6:5, Acts 22:4,.. etc.). Paul also looked on with satisfactionas the apostle Stephen was stoned to death (Acts 22:20).
3. Paul receives “visions” andis saved (Acts 22:9, Acts 9:7…etc.)
4. Paul is not sure exactly what he saw in hisvisions.His visions also contained “unspeakable wordsthat it is unlawful to utter.” (2 Corinthians 12:1-5)
5. Paul tells us that the person in his visionswas Jesus (pbuh). He declares that he received his teachings of”Christianity” from these visions and from no one else,not even the apostles (Galatians 1:12). In other words, he hasno need of learning from the apostles. His visions are higherin authority than anything they might have to say. He then goeson to show everyone how the apostles of Jesus are constantly inneed of his guidance to recognize the truth (e.g. Galatians 2:11-13)
6. Paul claims that all things are made lawful tohim and he shall not follow anyone (1 Corinthians 6:12). He alsoclaims that he shall do whatever it takes to get people to followhim, no matter what that might entail (1 Corinthians 9:20-22).
7. The apostles differ with Paul regarding the “truth”of the circumcision ordained by God and other matters.(1 Corinthians7:19, Galatians 2:7…etc.).
8. The apostles, according to Paul, did not walk”uprightly” according to the “truth ofthe Gospel” and were lazy, misguided, hypocrites (1 Corinthians15:10, Galatians 2:14, Galatians 2:13).
9. Most of the books of the New Testament are writtenby Paul himself. In them, Paul himself gives an unblushingpronouncementof how he was a vastly superior apostle of Jesus (pbuh) than theapostles who accompanied Jesus (pbuh) during his ministry andthey all needed his guidance to see the “truth” of Jesus’message and how Jesus (pbuh) and the apostles eagerly appointedhim the twelfth apostle.

Summary: If theapostles who lived, preached, ate, and drank with Jesus for somany years are all, according to Paul, lazy, misguided, hypocrites,who were not able to see the “truth” of Jesus’ messageas clearly as himself, and if Paul, who never met Jesus in theflesh but is the author of the majority of our New Testament,is more truly guided than all of the apostles combined becauseof his claimed “visions” even though he never quotesJesus nor needs to learn from the apostles, but is, accordingto his own gospel, more truly guided than all of them despiteall of this, then why did Jesus need to preach the law of Mosesto mankind at all? Why did he himself observe it so strictly?According to Paul, Jesus’ only use is as a body to be hung onthe cross. Jesus (pbuh) felt it necessary to commandhis followers to strictly and uncompromisingly observe the lawof Moses. He even felt it necessary to live his life in strictobservance of this law as a supreme example for us. He never onceexplicitly mentioned an original sin, an atonement, a crucifixion,a redemption, or a nullification of the law of Moses. However,no sooner does Jesus depart this earth than Paul uses his claimedvisions to completely nullify everything Jesus ever taught andpracticed. He does not need to learn from the apostles, all heneeds is his visions. That is indeed why he almost never quotesJesus himself. He always resorts to his own philosophization ratherthan quoting Jesus. Why then did Jesus not simply come to earthright after Adam sinned, not say a single word, quicklyanger some enemies of God, let them crucify him, and have it overwith quickly? Even if Jesus decided to wait hundreds of thousandsof years and only come 2000 years ago, then why preach a law thatis going to be thrown out the window in only a couple of years?Why observe this law so devoutly himself? Why command everyoneto strictly observe this law “till heaven and earth pass”?Why threaten them that anyone who would forsake a single commandmentwould be called “the least in the kingdom of heaven”?Is he not going to die for everyone’s sins and then come backin exclusive visions to Paul and command him to nullify the lawof Moses? Is he not going to come back in visions to Paul andcommand him to tell everyone that “a man is justifiedby faith without the deeds of the law.”? Why not preachsuch a doctrine himself while he is still amonghis apostles instead of waiting to first mention it to Paul ina vision after his death?These apostles that Paul looked down upon as lazymisguided hypocrites are the selfsame apostles who had accompaniedJesus (pbuh) during his lifetime, who taught all of mankind (includingPaul himself) the teachings of Jesus (pbuh), and who endured thepersecution of many (including Paul himself) to convey this messagewithout compromise, as Jesus had directly taught it to them. ThePauline Church (the Roman Catholic church which later gave birthto other churches such as the Protestant church) was to latergo on and officially adopt the doctrine of the Trinitya couple of centuries after the departure of Jesus, to severelycondemn, persecute, and kill any Christians who did not convertto their own personal brand of Christianity, to have presidedover the death of millions of Christians who did not adopt thisbelief. To have presided over the destruction of many hundredsof “unacceptable” gospels (some sources claim thousands)some of which were written by the apostles themselves, and tohave issued death warrants for all those found concealing them…and on and on.Even with all of this, the Gospel of Barnabas (seechapter seven) has managed to escapethis campaign of destruction of the Gospels and is available today.It confirms all that we have said and what the Qur’an has beensaying for centuries. It also presents Barnabas’ response to Paul’sclaims and his account of what truly happened at the crossand how Jesus (pbuh) was not forsaken by God to the Jews, butwas raised by God, and Judas the traitor was made to look likeJesus (pbuh) and was taken in his place. Barnabas, of course,accompanied Jesus (pbuh) and was an eye-witness to his mission.Paul was not.Getting back to our story… Paul had a falling outwith the apostles and decided that “Circumcision is nothing,and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandmentsof God” 1 Corinthians 7:19. Even though circumcisionwas held in an even higher regard than the Sabbathitself in the law of Moses and the “commandmentsof God,” still, Paul taught that it is possible to keepthe commandments even if, contrary to the teachings of Jesus andthe apostles, this foremost commandment of circumcision was abandoned.In the end, Paul decided that all thecommandmentsof God through Moses (pbuh) which Jesus (pbuh) hadkept faithfully till the crucifixion and which the apostles hadalso kept were all worthless decaying and ready to vanish awayand faith was all that was required, thereby completely nullifyingeverything his “Lord” Jesus had taught and practicedduring his lifetime.”Therefore we conclude that a man is justifiedby faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans 3:28He decided that the laws of Moses (pbuh) (e.g. “thoushalt not steal, thou shalt not kill, …etc.”) which Jesus(pbuh) had taught the faithful during his lifetime were a “curse”upon them and no longer necessary,”Christ hath redeemed us from the curse ofthe law.” Galatians 3:13He then went about explaining the “true”meanings of the teachings of Jesus and Paul’s preachings are whatare now known as “Christianity.”Paul himself readily admits that he was both willingand able to recruit new converts by any means athis disposal:”And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, thatI might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law(Gentiles),as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law”1 Corinthians 9:20and “…I am made all things to all men,that I might by all means savesome” 1 Corinthians 9:22and “…all things are lawful for me, butI will not be brought under the power of any.” 1 Corinthians 6:12We have already seen how Paul also openly admitsthat his teachings were not obtained from the apostles of Jesus,but from a vision of Jesus denied the apostles: Galatians 1:12″For I neither received it of man,neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”So, not only are the apostles of Jesus, according to Paul, lazy,misguided, hypocrites, but everything they ever learned from Jesusis in Paul’s estimation unnecessary. What they have learned fromJesus from direct contact with him is only useful in as far asit conforms to his “visions.” In other words, they haveneed to learn from him and not vice-versa.The great apostle of Jesus (pbuh), Barnabas (thedefender and benefactor of Paul), in the opening statements ofhis Gospel has the following to say about Paul among others:”True Gospel of Jesus, called Messiah, anew prophet sent by God to the world according to the descriptionof Barnabas his apostle. Barnabas, apostle of Jesus the Nazarene,called Messiah, to all them that dwell upon the earth desire peaceand consolation. Truly beloved, the great and wonderful God hasin these past days visited us by His apostle Jesus (the) Messiahin great mercy of teaching and miracles, by reason whereof many,being deceived by Satan, under pretense of piety, are preachingmost impious doctrine, calling Jesus the Son of God, repudiatingthe circumcision ordained by God forever, and permitting everyunclean meat: among whom also Paul has been deceived, whereofI speak not without grief: for which cause I am writing the truthwhich I have seen and heard, in thefellowshipthat I have had with Jesus, in order that you may be saved, andnot be deceived by Satan and perish in judgment of God. Therefore,beware of everyone that preaches to you a new doctrine contraryto that which I write, that you may be saved eternally. The greatGod be with you and guard you from Satan and from every evil.Amen.”Paul himself admits that there were those who werepreaching a different Gospel than his own and were gaining converts.He does not name his adversaries, but we can read about his mostnoble adversaries in two places wherein Paul uses what Prof. Brandoncalls “very remarkable terms” to describe them. Thefirst is”I marvel that ye are so soon removed fromhim that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, andwould pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angelfrom heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that whichwe have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before,so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto youthan that ye have received, let him be accursed.”Galatians 1:6-9The second is “But I fear, lest by any means,as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your mindsshould be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Forif he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, oranother gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bearwith him. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefestapostles. But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge;but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.”2 Corinthians 11:3-6These opponents of Paul were clearly preaching “anotherGospel” and “anotherJesus,” they were also obviously operating among Paul’sown target group and converting his converts. All of this eventhough their teachings did not exhibit the “simplicity”that Paul preached but required their followers to workfor their salvation. However, Paul displays amazing restraintwhen referring to them by not lambasting them with the vehemenceof speech which he is so capable nor questioning their authority.Rather, he gives a clue to their identity with the words: “…ForI suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles”and “we, or an angel from heaven,” and “untoanother gospel: Which is not another.”As we have seen in previous chapters, Christianscholarstoday agree that the very first Christians, including the apostlesof Jesus (pbuh) were all Unitarians who followed the religionof Moses, and that the Trinity was not introduceduntil around the beginning of the second century. These Unitariansenjoyed a large following and spread throughout much of NorthAfrica among other places. During this period, any Roman or Greekgentile who wanted to enter into Christianity pretty much wasallowed to choose which “Christianity” he wanted. Theone preached by Barnabas and the apostles which involved a strictand disciplined law of Moses (pbuh), or the much moresimplistic “New covenant” of Paul whichonly required “faith in Jesus” and which was later mademore appealing to them by the Pauline Church by incorporatinga “Trinity” and other changes into it so that it wouldmore closely resemble the Roman and Greek established beliefsof multiple Gods and father-Gods and son-Gods and Demi-Gods andGoddesses …etc. Toland says in his book TheNazarenes: “…amongst the Gentiles, so inveteratewas the hatred of the Jews that their observing of anything, howeverreasonable or necessary, was sufficient motive for a Gentile convertto reject it.” (From: Jesus, Prophet of Islam) If Paulwanted to convert these people, he would need to compromise, hewould need to make Christianity a little more appealing to them,which he, and his church, did.One of these first Unitarian Christians was a manby the name of Irenaeus (130-200 AD). Mr. MuhammadAta’ Ur Rahim tells us in his book “Jesus, Prophet of Islam”that he was one of the first Christians to be killed because oftheir adherence to the unity of God. He is quoted as saying thefollowing regarding the unending attempts to tamper with the Bible:”In order to amaze the simple and such as are ignorantof the Scriptures of Truth, they obtrude upon them an inexpressiblemultitude of apocryphal and spurious scriptures of their own devising”(the Gospels in our possession today).When the Pauline Church gained power and influencein Rome these Unitarian Christians were officially condemned,persecuted and killed. An attempt was made to totally obliteratethem and their books by forcing them to accept the Trinityor else to be killed as heretics and by burning their Gospels.Over a million of these Unitarian Christians were then put todeath because of their refusal to compromise their belief. Inspite of this, their beliefs have survived even to this day. WhenIslam came with the call to one God and the belief in Jesus (pbuh)and his miracles, these Unitarian Christians were among the firstpeople to recognize the word of God and accept Islam.So thorough has Paul and his church been in totallyeradicating all of the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) and his firstapostles that very little has survived. Not even Jesus’ (pbuh)preferred method of greeting his followers. From ancient times,the prophets of God including Moses, Joseph, David,Jesus, the angels of God and many others including God himselfhave made it their custom to greet the believers with the words”Peace be with you.” This can be seen in such versesas Genesis 43:23, Judges 6:23, 1 Samuel 25:6, Numbers 6:26, 1Samuel 1:17, Luke 24:36, John 20:19, John 20:26, and especiallyLuke 10:5:”And into whatsoever house ye enter, firstsay, Peace be to this house”to name a few.Can anyone guess what Muhammad (pbuh) taught hisfollowers to say when greeting each other or departing from eachother? You guessed it! “Assalam alaikum” or “Peacebe unto you.” Have you ever met a Christian who greets otherChristians with the words of Jesus (pbuh): “Peace be untoyou”?So, what do the scholars have to say about Paul?:Heinz Zahrnt calls Paul “the corrupter ofthe Gospel of Jesus.” From “The Jesus Report,”Johannes Lehman, p. 126.Werde describes him as “The second founderof Christianity.” He further says that due to Paul: “…thediscontinuity between the historical Jesus and the Christ of theChurch became so great that any unity between them is scarcelyrecognizable” “The Jesus Report,” Johannes Lehman, p.127.Schonfield wrote: “The Pauline heresy becamethe foundation of the Christian orthodoxy and the legitimate Churchwas disowned as heretical.” “The Jesus Report,” Johannes Lehman, p.128.Mr. Michael H. Hart, in his book “The 100,a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History,”places Muhammad (pbuh) in first place, next comes Paul, and Jesus(pbuh) after Paul. Like most other western scholars besides himself,he recognizes Paul as being more deserving of credit for “Christianity”than “Christ” himself.Grolier’s encyclopedia has the following to say underthe heading “Christianity”: “After Jesus wascrucified, his followers, strengthened by the conviction thathe had risen from the dead and that they were filled with thepower of the Holy Spirit, formed the first Christian communityin Jerusalem. By the middle of the 1st century, missionaries werespreading the new religion among the peoples of Egypt, Syria,Anatolia, Greece, and Italy. Chief among these was Saint Paul,who laid the foundations of Christian theology and played a keyrole in the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sectto a world religion. The original Christians, being Jews, observedthe dietary and ritualistic laws of the Torah and required non-Jewishconverts to do the same. Paul and others favored eliminatingobligation,thus making Christianity more attractive to Gentiles.”Dr. Arnold Meyer says: “If by Christianitywe understand faith in Christ as the heavenly Son of God, whodid not belong to earthly humanity, but who lived in the divinelikeness and glory, who came down from heaven to earth, who enteredhumanity and took upon himself a human form through a virgin,that he might make propitiation for men’s sins by his own bloodupon the cross, who was then awakened from death andraised to the right hand of God, as the Lord of his own people,who believe in him, who hears their prayers, guards and leadsthem, who will come again with the clouds of heaven to judge theworld, who will cast down all the foes of God, and will bringhis own people with him unto the home of heavenly light so thatthey may become like His glorified body – if this is Christianity,then such Christianity was founded by St. Paul and not by ourLord” Dr. Arnold Meyer, Professor of Theology, ZurichUniversity,Jesus or Paul, p. 122As we can see, this information is not new. It hasbeen well recognized and documented for centuries now. Even centuriesago, it was well known that most of what was claimed by the churchcould not be verified through the Bible. Thus, a shift was madefrom obtaining ones inspiration from the Bible to obtaining itfrom the “Bride of Jesus,” theChurch. Fra Fulgentio, for instance, was once reprimanded by thePope in a letter saying “Preaching of the Scriptures isa suspicious thing. He who keeps close to the Scriptures willruin the Catholic faith.” In his next letter he was moreexplicit: “…which is a book if anyone keeps close towill quite destroy the Catholic faith.” Tetradymus,John Toland (From: Jesus a Prophet of Islam)As we have just seen, all of this started with onelone man, with Paul. It stands to reason that one would wish tostudy the life, beliefs, and teachings of this man in order toverify if the claims he made were indeed true. Paul claims thathe was a prophet of God and/or Jesus. We find this for examplein Galatians:”For I neither received it of man, neitherwas I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ …But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb,and called [me] by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that Imight preach him among the heathen”Galatians 1:12-16Thus, if Paul tells us in the books of the Biblethat he is a prophet, then he can be only one of two kinds ofprophet; either a true prophet or a false prophet. Thus, we musttake Paul to trial and have the court decide for us what sortof prophet he is.Due to the magnitude of that which is at stake inthis trial, it would be highly unjust to allow personal prejudicesto cloud the outcome of the proceedings. For this reason, justicedemands that the judge be one who’s integrity and truthfulnesscan be readily and unhesitantly accepted by all. For this reason,our judge and jury in this matter shall consist of only twoindividuals:God Almighty and Jesus Christ. Further, only one single exhibitshall be brought into evidence, namely, the Bible. Let us thenclear our minds and hearts of all prejudices and let only Godand Jesus tell us what to accept and what to reject. Are we agreed?Then let us begin.Let us start the proceedings with the words of God.He says:”When a prophet speaketh in the name of theLORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] thething which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spokenit presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.” Deuteronomy 18:22Now let us move on and obtain the witness of Jesus(pbuh):”For there shall arise false Christs, andfalse prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuchthat, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”Matthew 24:24Jesus (pbuh) continues …”Beware of false prophets, which come toyou in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth goodfruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good treecannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bringforth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruitis hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruitsye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth thewill of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in thatday, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thyname have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderfulworks? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: departfrom me, ye that work iniquity.”Matthew 7:15-23Now that the base criteria have been laid out byGod and then His elect messenger Jesus Christ (pbuh), let us nowbring into evidence the words of Paul in the Bible and allow themto speak for themselves. In order to do this we shall break upthe criteria set forth by God and Jesus above into seven points.They are:

1. A false prophet’s prophesies do not come true.
2. False Christs and false prophets can show greatsigns and wonders that can deceive the very elect.
3. False prophets bring forth evil fruits.
4. A false prophet would claim that it is enoughto say to Jesus Lord to be righteous.
5. A false prophet would prophesy in Jesus’ name.
6. A false prophet can cast out devils and dowonderfulworks.
7. A false prophet would be turned away and cursedby Jesus.

Regarding the first criteria, we bring into evidencethe words of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 regarding his prophesyof the second coming of Jesus. Paulsays:”For the Lord (Jesus) himself shall descendfrom heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, andwith the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up togetherwith them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shallwe ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with thesewords.” 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16Paul in this prophesy was in effect telling hisfollowersthat Jesus would be descending from heaven any second now. Pauland his followers would then be taken up into the air and meetJesus in the clouds. He was telling them that this shall happenwhile they are still alive and breathing. Did this come to pass?No! It was a false prophesy. Two thousand yearshave passed since and not only has he and those he was speakingto turned to dust, but countless generations of their followerstoo have passed away and we still await his prophesy to come true.Let us now study the second criteria. Now, we haveto realize that it is Paul himself and his church after him whoare telling us of his claimed miracles, however, we shall acceptthem at face value and take their word for it. In Acts 27, Paulis claimed to have been saved by an angel from a drowning ship.In Acts 28, Paul is claimed to have cured many of dysentery. Furtheracts of healing are claimed in Acts 19. Because of these claimedmiracles, many people were claimed to have believed in him. Aswe have seen in the previous pages, it only took roughly threecenturies for Paul’s teachings to take firm hold of the very electand divert them from the original message of Jesus, from his originalteachings, from the observance of the Mosaic law, and from thecontinuation of the observance of this law in the synagogues andTemple of the Jews just as the very first apostles had done (Acts2:46).The third criteria draws our attention to Paul’swords:”To declare, [I say], at this time hisrighteousness:that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believethin Jesus. Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law?of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we concludethat a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.”Romans 3:26-28So Paul succeeded in overthrowing the Mosaic law.He completely nullified the law which God, Moses,and Jesus all upheld and commanded their followers to observetill the end of time (see Duet. 6:17-18, Duet. 11:1, Matt. 15:1-15,Matt. 5:17-20, Matt. 19:16-21, etc.)Indeed, Isaiah 42:21 presents a prophesy thatrequiresthe coming prophet to magnify the law of Moses, notdestroy it.In other words, God says:”Ye shall not add unto the word which I commandyou, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keepthe commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”Deuteronomy 4:2And Jesus says: “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven andearth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from thelaw, till all be Fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break oneof these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shallbe called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shalldo and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdomof heaven.” Matthew 5:18-19But now Paul comes along and says: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse ofthe law” Galatians 3:13,and “Therefore we conclude that a man isjustified by faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans 3:28Let us move on to the fourth criteria. Paul says:”For there is no difference between the Jewand the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all thatcall upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord(Jesus) shall be saved.” Romans 10:12-13The fifth criteria requires that he prophesy inJesus’name. And once again, Paul says: “For I neither received it of man, neitherwas I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”Galatians 1:12So according to Paul, everything he taught was bydirect revelation from Jesus.The sixth criteria requires that Paul cast out devilsand do wonderful works. This he claims to have done in Acts 19:11-12.The seventh criteria draws our attention to Paul’swords”I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee”Acts 23:6A fact which Paul very proudly repeats on more thanone occasion. To which Jesus (pbuh) responds:”Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when heis made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”Matthew 23:15.So Jesus (pbuh) labeled the Pharisees “childrenof Hell.”Further, as we already know, Jesus did indeed “neverknow” Paul. In fact, Paul new so little of Jesus that heonly quoted Jesus directly once throughout his whole ministry(1 Corinthians 11:26). Only a few of Jesus’ actual teachings areever mentioned in Paul’s Epistles, and even then they are notattributed to Jesus. They were most likely popular homilies whichhad been circulated in the community and thus indirectly foundtheir way into his Epistles.Indeed, Daniel 7:25 describes the very greatest ofall false Christs as follows: “And he shall speak [great] words againstthe most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given intohis hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”Now, although Paul is not this finalFalse Messiah, and although no Muslim shall ever attempt to makesuch a claim, still, it is interesting to note the great degreeof similarity he exhibits with that most evil of all false prophets.For example, THE False Messiah shall change times and laws,and so too did Paul nullify the Law. THE False Messiahshall speak great words against God, and so too does Paul. Forexample, the Bible says:”The law of the LORD [is] Perfect, convertingthe soul: …The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicingthe heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlighteningthe eyes.” Psalm 19:7-8And “Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thyGod, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments,and his commandments, always.” Deuteronomy 11:1And “For verily I (Jesus) say unto you, Tillheaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wisepass from the law, till all be fulfilled.Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdomof heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shallbe called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:18-19However, Paul says in Romans 7:6 that the law isdead He further says in Galatians 3:13 that the law is a curse.In Galatians 3:10 he claims that those who labor under the lawof God are under a curse. And he claims in Hebrews 8:13 that Godscovenant is old, decaying, and ready to vanishaway.As we can see from the above, both God and Jesuscondemn Paul and his teachings in no uncertain terms. They themselvesbear witness against him and his innovations which they totallyreject and which shall be brought to witness against him on theDay of Judgment. Who better and more unbiased a judge shall webring to witness against Paul and his innovations that Jesus Christand God Himself?Many Christian evangelists who follow the theologyof Paul would dearly love to provide salvation for their neighbors.So much so that they can not understand how their neighbors cannot see the clear and obvious love God holds for them such thatHe would actually sacrifice His only begotten son for them. Inorder to make this clear for their neighbors, they draw many analogies.For example, a Christian gentleman from Canada once sent our localIslamic center a six-page pamphlet titled “God our HeavenlyFather,” with the goal of demonstrating the love of God tous. His efforts were sincerely appreciated and his message wasaccepted in the spirit it was sent. However, far from provinghis point, this pamphlet only served to thoroughly confuse theissue.The pamphlet contained a short fictitious story aboutan Arab man named “Akbar” who was very moral and upright.One day, his son committed a serious crime that deserved capitalpunishment. The authorities found evidence linking this crimeto this man’s house. When the authorities came, the father falselyadmitted to the crime in order to spare his son. The pamphletconcluded that just as the father’s love for his son made himsacrifice himself, in a similar manner, God Almighty’s love formankind drove him to sacrifice Jesus(pbuh).Now, maybe it is just us, however, at the end ofthe story we were expecting the parallel to be that God Almighty”the Father” would now sacrifice Himself in order thatJesus “the Son” would not have to die, just as the “Arab”father had sacrificed himself to save his son. Although we appreciatedthe consideration, still, we could not see the similarity betweenthe two stories.When a person is good and upright, that person maybe willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good or fora loved one. For example, if a mother sees her son in danger ofbeing run over by a car, she may very likely run in front of thecar in order to save her baby. If she raised the neighbor’s childwith her own and grew very attached to that child, then she mightalso be willing to sacrifice herself for the neighbor’s childtoo. She might throw herself in front of the car for the neighbor’schild as well. However, have you ever heard of a mother who, whenshe saw a car about to hit the neighbor’s child, threw HERSON in front of the car so that the impact of her son’sinfant body smashing into the car’s windshield would cause itto swerve away from the neighbor’s child?As the Bible says “prove all things, holdfast that which is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21. “Andthou shalt love the Lord thy God … with all thy mind … : thisis the first commandment.” Mark 12:30I would like nothing more than to present much moresupporting evidence of these matters, however, by God’s will thissampling shall be sufficient. For a much more detailed historicalaccount of the above issues, collected from the writings of thechurch itself, I recommend the books:

1. “Jesus, Prophet of Islam” by Muhammad`Ata ur-Rahim, and
2. “Blood on the cross,” byAhmed Thomson.

If you can not find these books at your local librarythen you may obtain a copy at one of the addresses listed at theback of this book.For a book that is claimed to have remained 100%the inspired word of God, the sheer number of contradicting narrationsboggles the mind (see chapter two). These matters have been wellknown and documented by conservative Christian scholars for along time now. It is the masses who don’t know this. The informationis out there for anyone who will simply look for it. The historicalinconsistencies and scriptural contradictions are well recognizedin this century and countless books have been written about them.However, their studies have always stopped short of the finalstep. People have generally believed that there is no way to retrievethe original teachings of Jesus (pbuh) after such extensive andcontinuous revision of the text of the Bible by the Church overso many centuries as well as the Pauline Church’s massive campaignof destruction of all gospels not conforming to their personalbeliefs. But where human intellect has failed, God has intervened.The Qur’an has been sent down by the same One who sent the originalGospel down upon Jesus (pbuh). It contains the original, unchangedteachings of God. I invite all readers to study the Qur’an justas we have studied the Bible, and to make up their minds if ourclaims bear merit.1.2.8 Summary: What is a “Trinity”?:In the above historical analysis,we learned that in 325C.E., the Trinitarian church set forth thedoctrine of homoousious meaning: of "CO-EQUALITY,CO-ETERNITY, AND CONSUBSTANTIALITY" of the second personof the trinity with the Father. The doctrine becameknown as the Creed of Nicea. Butthey also went on to develop the doctrine of “blind faith.”This is because those who developed the “Trinity” doctrinewere unable to define it in any manner that could not be refutedby the unwavering Unitarians Christians through the Bible. Inthe beginning they tried to defend the “Trinity” throughlogic and the Bible. This continued for a long time until theTrinitarian church finally gave up on ever substantiating theirclaims through the Bible. So they demanded blind faith in theirdoctrines. Anyone who did not believe blindly and dared to questionthem would be branded a heretic and tortured or killed. The followingis only a small sampling of the verses of the Bible which refutethis definition:Co-equality:Jesus and God can not be co-equal because the Biblesays: “… my Father is greater than I”John 14:28Obviously if God is greater than Jesus (pbuh) thenthey can not be equal. We also read:”But of that day and that hour knoweth noman, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son,but the Father.” Mark 13:32If Jesus and God were equal then it follows thatthey will be equal in knowledge. But as we can see, God is greaterin knowledge than Jesus (pbuh).Co-eternity:God is claimed to have “begotten” Jesus(pbuh). Jesus (pbuh) is claimed to be the “Son” of God.”Beget” is a verb which implies an action. No matterhow you define what God actually did in order to “beget”Jesus (pbuh), any definition must require that God Almighty performedsome action and then Jesus (pbuh) came into being. Before Godperformed this action Jesus was not. After God performed thisaction Jesus came into being. Thus, not only is Jesus (pbuh) noteternal, since there was a time (before the “begetting”)when he did not exist, but he can also never be co-eternal withGod since God was in existence at a time when Jesus was not. Thisis very simple grade-school logic.Consubstantiality:First go back and read the comments on co-equalityand co-eternity. Next, remember when Jesus is claimed to havedied? (Mark 15:37, John 19:30). If God and Jesus are one substancethen God died also. But then who was governing all of creation?Remember:”And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice,he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and havingsaid thus, he gave up the ghost.”Luke 23:46If Jesus and God were “one substance” thenJesus (pbuh) would not need to send his spirit to God becauseit is already God’s own spirit, who is also Jesus. Remember”And he went a little farther, and fell onhis face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but as thouwilt”Matthew 26:39And “I can of mine own self do nothing: asI hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mineown will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”John 5:30 If Jesus and God were one substance then this ONEsubstance must only have ONE will.Futher, remember “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried witha loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say,My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”Matthew 27:46If Jesus and God are one substance then how can ONEsubstance forsake itself? Why would ONE substance need to prayto itself?Tom Harpur says: “The idea of the Second Person of a HolyTrinity knowing what it is to be God-forsaken has only to be statedto be recognized as absurd”For Christ’s Sake, pp. 45.Even explaining the supposed “Trinity”away as a “mystery” does not hold water. In 1 Corinthians14:33 we read “For God is not [the author] of confusion.”Thus, confusion can never be His very nature.THIS is why blindfaith was demanded, and THIS is why twelve millionChristians were put to death by the church as heretics in thenotorious Church “Inquisitions” (Apologyfor Muhammad and the Qur’an, John Davenport).

1.2.9 Conclusion:What we have learned in this chapter is that:1) There is no mention of a “Trinity”in the Bible by God, Jesus, Paul, or anyone else. The Pauline(Roman Catholic) church fabricated it around the fourth centuryCE and Biblical verses were then casually “inserted”into the Bible to validate this concept (such as 1 John 5:7 whichall recent Bibles now discard). Jesus, Matthew, John, Luke, Markand all of the apostles, even Paul, were completely unaware ofany “Trinity.” Eminent Christian scholars (Yes, evenRoman Catholics) today readily recognize this as a known factin some of their own most prominent books and approvedreferences. We have seen how the Bible does not contain a singleverse validating the “Trinity” and that the only reasonChristians believe in it is because the Church has taken it uponitself to “explain” and “clarify” the Biblefor them. Most of these explanations consist of:

• Quoting verses where Jesus is made to “imply”that he is God, or
• Allowing a preconceived doctrine to color one’stranslation of the Greek text so that the divinity of Jesus becomes”clear” in the English “translation,” or
• Quoting verses out of context.

2) Since there is no Trinity, therefore,if Jesus (pbuh) is a god then this requires that he be a separategod from God. This means that there must be at least twogods in existence, but this contradicts verse after verse of theBible, all of which constantly beat us over the head with thefact that there is only ONE god in existence (e.g. Isaiah 43:10-11,Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18, etc.) and which is why versesverifying a “Trinity” needed to be inserted in the firstplace (Such as 1 John 5:7, which has now been discarded).3) Since Jesus (pbuh) can not be god, and he himselfnever claimed to be a god and never asked anyone to worship himbut only “the Father,” therefore God Almighty is theonly one who must be worshipped (John 17:3, John 4:2, John 4:23,Matthew 7:21, Matthew 22:37..etc.).4) The “original sin of Adam”which mankind is supposed to have inherited was a fabricationof Paul. It is explicitly refuted in the Bible in many places(e.g. Ezekiel 18:19-20, Deuteronomy 24:16, Jeremiah31:29-30, Ezekiel 18:1-9).5) Since Jesus (pbuh) can be neither a god nor aSon of God (in the literal orthodox sense), andsince the “original sin” is a fabrication not taughtby Jesus (pbuh), therefore, the “atonement” is alsoexposed as not part of the message of Jesus but a later additionto it. In other words, if we do not bear the “original sinof Adam” then there is no need for Jesus (pbuh)or anyone else to atone for it. This is simple logic. You don’tneed the fire department if there is no fire.6) Jesus (pbuh) never taught any of the aboveconceptsto his followers. He only taught them to faithfully follow thereligion of Moses (pbuh). Once we recognize the factthat all of these doctrines were later insertions into the religionof Jesus, then we become ready to recognize Jesus’ (pbuh) truemessage as a simple continuation of the religion of Moses(pbuh)(Matthew5:17-18, Matthew 19:16-21). He was simply sent to rectify theJewish religion, return it to the original message preached byMoses (pbuh), and discard the innovations and changes which hadbeen introduced into it by a handful of the unscrupulous.7) Historical facts show how Jesus’ (pbuh) messagewas directed at the Jews only. It was only changed from this originalform after it was taken to those it was never intended for, thepagan gentiles.8) Paul is the author of the majority of the booksof the New Testament. The restwere fabricated by his followers and were not written by the apostlesof Jesus (pbuh). The supporting evidence of these claims fromthese books themselves is overwhelming. The teaching of Paul inthe Bible totally contradict the teachings of Jesus himself andinclude obvious discrepancies even in such fundamental mattersas his (Paul’s) conversion to Christianity and his acceptanceamong the apostles. He claims that the apostles of Jesus are lazy,misguided, hypocrites, and also proudly proclaims to us that hehas no need of learning from the apostles. Their knowledge ofthe message of Jesus is flawed and in need of correction fromhis teachings based upon the authority of his “visions.”9) Countless Biblical scholars themselves admit thatit was a common practice at the time to insert and remove versesof the Bible and even to claim that they were the words of Jesus(pbuh), God Almighty, and others without any reservation whatsoever.They readily admit that the speeches found in the Bible were nevermade by the claimed speakers. The vast majority of these speecheswere the work of the authors and their “conception”of what these Biblical characters would most likely have said.10) All of this was revealed to us by God in theNoble Qur’an over 1400 years ago. It has only been independentlyverified by the West in this century.11) All of this, in addition to the prophesies ofMuhammad (pbuh) in the Bible (Chapter 6) and the previous evidenceof distortion in the Bible continually verify the claim of theQur’an that mankind had taken great liberties with God’s scripturesand thus it was necessary for God to send down His final message,the message of Islam, in order to restore His original teachingssent down to His previous prophets including His elect prophetJesus (pbuh).”And if it be said unto them: Follow thatwhich Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, but we follow that whereinwe found our fathers. What! Even though the devil was invitingthem to the torture of the fire?” The noble Qur’an, Lukman(31):21″Allah coineth a similitude: A man in relationto whom are several partners quarreling, and a man belonging whollyto one man. Are the two equal in similitude? Praise be to Allah,but most of them know not. Lo! you will die (O Muhammad) and Lo!they will die. Then lo! on the day of resurrection, before yourlord will you dispute. And who does greater wrong than he wholies against Allah and denied the truth when it reached him? Isthere not in hell an abode for the disbelievers? And whosoeverbrings the truth and believes therein, such are the God-fearing.They shall have what they will of their Lord’s bounty. That isthe reward of those who excel in good. Allah will absolve themof the worst of what they did, and will award them their rewardfrom the best of what they used to do. Will not Allah defend Hisservant? And they frighten you with those besides Him. He whomAllah sends astray, for him there is no guide. And him who Allahguides, for him there is no misleader. Is not Allah mighty, ableto requite (the wrong)?” The noble Qur’an, Al-Zumar(39):27-36″But in vain they do worship me, teachingfor doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9 and Mark 7:7