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The History Of A Religion Should Speak For It ( Part 1 ) by mamsong9(m): 10:49am On Jun 26, 2013
An objective investigation into the evolvement of the world religions would definitely reveal to us the true nature of a particular religion, of how good or bad, how tolerant or intolerant it is of other faith.

Christianity is one of the major religions of the world, the other two been Islam and Judaism. Christianity started when Roman empire was at it peak of it power. You would think that is a religion that originate from judaism, but in the actual sense the religion was founded on the foundation of Greek pagan philosophy with the help of the roman emperors, around the personality of Isa ( Jesus ). This new religion did not appeal to the Jews people because of it Multi-god head of TRINITY and as such they rejected it.

As the journey begging to gather momentum some of the early followers of this faith began to reject the idea of TRINITY, SONSHIP and GODSHIP of Jesus. This period marked the beginning of a very tragic story in the history of the world. An era which lasted for almost 600 years, where people were brutally massacre in geometric progression. This was the time when TRINITY was declared as the official religion recognized in the whole region by the Catholic church. With the help of the roman emperor succeeded in terminating many souls, but the faith in one God continue to flourish up to the present day. I would like to site examples of some great men of history that paid the ultimate price for holding the view of oneness of God and they rejected TRINITY.

1. Iranaeus ( 130 - 200 A.D ) : He came to lime light when he carried a petition to the pope in Rome about the persecution of those christians who did not agree with the doctrine of the Pauline church ( Catholic Church ). He later became the bishop of Lyons after the former bishop was brutally murdered along side other members by the Catholic Christians. The story was again repeated when he was also murdered in 200 A.D. His only crime was that he believed in one God only, and disbelieved in TRINITY.

2. Tertulian ( 160 - 220 A.D ) : He rejected TRINITY as it was an innovation and interpolation without any foundation in the teaching of Jesus.

3. Origen ( 185 - 254 A.D ) : An apostolic christian by faith, he was inspired by his father who also rejected TRINITY and was brutally murdered. Origen later rise to the level of bishop but at the end of his life he was murdered. His crime was that he believe in one God only and disbelieved in TRINITY.

4. Lucian ( Died in 312 ) : A man of great learning and fear of God, he believed that Jesus was not equal to God or subordinate to Him. It was for this that he incurred the enmity of the Catholic church, and after many tortures he was put to death in 312 A.D.

5. Arius ( 250 - 336 ) : This wonderful man who you may call the Zakir Naik of his time had an incredible story that I can't say much here about him. He also paid the ultimate price along side hundred of thousand of people who were brutally killed by the roman catholic. Their crime only was that they believed in one God and that Jesus was a prophet of God and they rejected TRINITY

The roman catholic and the protestant churches failed to stamp out belief in the Divine Unity, despite their tremendous power. Believe in one God survived up to the coming of Islam. And because of the tricking resemblance between the true followers of Jesus and that of Islam, naturally Muslims ( Islam ) inherit the hatred.

To be continue In-Sha-Allah...

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