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THE NINETEEN QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN CLERGY
Edip Yuksel
Copyright © 1993 by Edip Yuksel
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in
whole or in part in any form without permission in writing
from the author, except via electronic mail, or internet.
I'm grateful for the critical review and the editorial
assistance of John Spooner, Gatut Adisoma, Kathryn Kolton,
Martha Schulte-Nafeh, Lisa Spray, Douglas Brown, Emily
Sterrett, Jim Williamson, Abdullah Arik, Raymond Catton,
Chris Moore, Linda Moore, Jerry Patchen, and Apameh Bashar.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONGRATULATIONS!
Breaking the atoms into pieces
One God, one religion
QUESTION 1
Did Jesus ever claim to be Lord?
Two translations, two meanings
QUESTION 2
How many Jesuses are there in the Bible?
QUESTION 3
1+1+1=1 or 1=1+1+1 Trinity?
What is the Trinity?
Three centuries after Christ
A divine mystery?
If we truly believe...
A Copernican revolution
QUESTION 4
Who was St. Paul? Was he a disciple of Jesus or a hypocrite?
Did he curse Jesus or was he cursed by Jesus?
When Saul became Paul...
The real followers of Jesus
Self-appointed disciple changes the name
Cursed by whom?
Paul's hidden answer
The prophecy and warning of Jesus
Here is the Pharisee!
Here is the hypocrite!
QUESTION 5
What Gospel did Jesus preach?
The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
QUESTION 6
A Forsaken God?!
QUESTION 7
Can A "Human God" Be A Product of Translation Errors?
Worship or pay homage?
Creating a male Jewish god
Jesus was not the only "son of God"
The Gospel of John: A mishmash
The attraction of "only"
Four kinds of translational errors
QUESTION 8
Genealogy or Mythology?
Only two commissioned
Fulfilling prophecy?
"It is an artificial list"
Who are Perez, Zerah and Tamar?
Bastards with their prostitute mother enter...
QUESTION 9
Quadrinity?
QUESTION 10
Contradictions...
Still verbatim?
QUESTION 11
Revised, re-revised, re-re-revised King James Versions;
what's next?
You can find in footnotes (sometimes)!
QUESTION 12
Transubstantiation or consubstantiation or
pretentious cannibalism?
Pretentious cannibalism
QUESTION 13
Priests or peddlers?
They never asked for money
When weeds replace flowers
The holy form of colonialism
The characteristics of nefarious clergy
Images, icons, idols, saints, priests --or God?
From monotheism to idolatry
Paul is carving idols by innovating mediators
Prayer brokers
QUESTION 15
Why do you abuse and ignore Biblical verses?
John 8:57,58
John 1:1
John 20:28
John 10:30
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 9:6
The ignored verses
The real source of the Trinity
QUESTION 16
A human god?
The Birth of "God"
The Family of "God"
The Development of "God"
The Tempting Of "God"
The Racial "God"
A "God" Unlike the God
The "God" On the Run
The Capture of "God"
The End of "God"
What is your problem?
A divine oxymoron?
QUESTION 17
Is this how you defend the deity of Christ?
Which one do you select: Unity or Trinity?
"God humiliated himself"
A volunteer!
Jesus was best understood by his enemies
Self-imposed limitations
The trilemma of the Trinity
The plank in the eye
Indeed, "It works"
QUESTION 18
Who is "Parakletos"?
"That Prophet"
Another Parakletos
QUESTION 19
Can you see the mathematical miracle?
Before the secret is decoded
Simple to understand, impossible to imitate
Physical, examinable divine proof
In the original of The Old Testament
How can we explain this phenomenon?
It is not a dream anymore
THE ARROW TEST
Psychological relationship
The Arrow Test
Results of the experiments
Religion: the best nest for conformists
Children's questions
AN INVITATION
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