Christians Must Heed Jesus

The Church’s Final Decree Regarding the Trinity: "The Trinity is not a Matter For Reason and Logic; There is no Need For You to Reflect on and Understand İt"

• The subject of the Trinity was constantly reshaped by a succession of councils, ongoing study and new decrees. Various passages in the Gospel were re-interpreted; passages that had one been rejected were suddenly declared to be trustworthy and added to the Gospel, while others were removed.
• In this extraordinarily contradictory environment, the Church tried to shape itself in the light of new suggestions and objections in order not to have to give way on the doctrine of the Trinity.
• The arguments and discrepancies regarding the Trinity remain unresolved to this day. The final decree on the subject was issued by the Council of Florence in 1443. The council did not manage to eliminate the contradictions and inconsistencies on the subject, however, and the arguments persisted for a long time thereafter.
• The First Vatican Council, summoned by the Papacy in 1868-1870 with the aim of putting an end to these endless disputes, [fully 1,870 years after Jesus] decreed that the Trinity is not a matter for reason and logic, but a mystery and an article of faith. (Const. "De fide, cath", IV)
• To put it another way, the insoluble dilemma of the Trinity was simply declared by the Church to be a "mystery," in order to eliminate opponents and their justified objections as required by logic, reason and the genuine verses of the Gospel. The message being sent out, in other words, was "There is no need for you to think about this anymore!"

This subject will be considered in greater detail in the pages that follow.

The "Additions and Removals" Officially Carried Uut by the Church, to the Four Gospels While Asserting Their Unchanging Nature

• The oldest handwritten copies of the holy texts regarded as canonical date back to the Third Century. In other words, these were written three hundred years after Jesus. In fact, there are differences in the texts and expressions in all the sacred texts.
• Indeed, the texts refer to events and people from long after the earliest dates these are considered to have been written.
• The oldest copy of the Gospel According to John dates back to approximately 200 AD, and there are more than 10,000 different texts of that particular gospel alone. The number of major differences among these 10,000 different copies is around 200,000.
• In order to avoid confusion, footnotes are often provided for the various gospels. These contain the following expression "According to other ancient authorities, this word or sentence should not appear" or "other ancient authorities have read this as…" or "other ancient authorities omitted the following words…"
• The Revised Standard version of the Holy Bible (New York, Glasgow 1971) refers to Jesus as "the son of God" in the first sentence of the Gospel According to Mark. There then follows a footnote, saying "other ancient authorities did not include the term (the son of God)."
• The four canonical Gospels contain major discrepancies and differences. But this variation is not limited to the Gospels in question alone. There are also major differences between the oldest handwritten and printed copies of each of these Gospels.
• During the preparation of the standard version of the Gospel, say According to Matthew, selections were made based on the differences, and extra and missing passages in the previously printed manuscripts.It is therefore impossible to be sure which terms should be regarded as true and valid.
• Various sentences in the final part of the Gospel According to Mark had to be removed in order for the Gospel to be agreed at the Council of Nicaeabecause those expressions were diametrically opposed to the doctrine of the Trinity.
• Various passages were taken from the works of the other authors of the Gospels and a concluding paragraph to the Gospel According to Mark was prepared on that basis.
• All passages describing Jesus as the Messiah of the Jews were removed from the Gospel According to John. This was replaced with a superhuman figure of Jesus.

(Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bayrakdar, The Trinity, a Christian Dogma, Ankara School Publications, September 2007, p. 163)

The text of the Gospel According to John is accepted to have been written in 110 AD; it is generally considered to be the oldest of the canonical Gospel. This means that the disciple John must have lived for at least 140-150 years, which is highly unlikely. In addition, the fact that the text of John contains information from much later times also casts doubt on whether the disciple John was really the author of the Gospel.

The other Gospels emphasized that Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews, is descended from the line of the Prophet David (pbuh) and will liberate Israel. However, all Judaic concepts that would displease Hellenic Christians were removed from the Gospel According to John. The influence of Greek philosophy in the Gospel According to John is very obvious.

• Various other Gospels and passages from these Gospels that would later be dismissed by the Church as fabrications were for a long time thought of as valid. These were accepted for a long time, and anyone claiming they were false was promptly excommunicated.
• For example, in the Fourth Century one Christian sect recognized 23 books in the Gospel, while a few centuries later that same sect recognized 27.
• http://harunyahya.com/en/books/179040/Christians-Must-Heed-Jesus/chapter/14943/Chapter-1-According-to-historical-sources-the-gospel-has-been-corrupted-over-time