I mean Jesus spoke
Aramaic the gospel that he received was
in Aramaic but there are tribes in in in
Syria today that speak Aramaic he didn't
speak English he didn't speak English he
didn't speak Latin you know from which
Greek from which these things were
translated he spoke Aramaic so where is
his gospel it's
lost not
known was it now meant for a particular
time a particular people and now we
don't have it because some people would
argue that well did God make a mistake
now because this is supposed to be for
for all of us until today so now how did
this how do we lose it now did God make
a mistake or wasn't meant to be saved
well it's no there's no mistake here
because the fact that Jesus's message
was for as you said a particular people
in a particular place for a particular
period of time a prophet was going to
come after him
who would bring the final message which
would be for all people in all places at
all times so all of the earlier Prophets
The Scriptures were not guarded and
preserved by God as he guarded and
preserved the Quran not because they
were not scripture yes they're all
scripture in that sense they're all
equal they're all the word of God
conveyed to human beings but the changes
that took place by human hands to the
earlier scriptures God permitted because
those messages were not Eternal messages
they were messages for particular people
particular places particular times so
the final message if it were to be the
final message it had to be preserved and
that's again evidence of its
truthfulness and finality do we still
have the word of the Creator in what we
have of the Bible today we have bits and
pieces bits and pieces yeah bits and
pieces here and there and these are
affirmed in the Quran many places which
affirm texts from the Bible but the the
totality of what's there is confusion
for a long time I thought that the Bible
was inspired and inherent that there
were no mistakes in the Bible but as I
engaged in historical research on the
Bible as I was getting my PhD in New
Testament studies at Princeton
Theological Seminary I started finding
mistakes in the Bible and uh this this
cut away at my assumptions that the
Bible was inherent and then I started
questioning other parts of my faith is
Jesus is really Divine uh is a really a
trinity mhm it's confusion but a person
who reads it
sincerely from beginning to
end he will be forced to
accept the Oneness of God because that
message is there in spite of all the
distortions and all the other things
that are there the Oneness of God is
there all of the earlier prophets
talking Oneness of God and Jesus
affirming when they asked him what is
the the command God's command he said
here o Israel the Lord your God is one
God one God he's affirming the same
thing that came before so anybody who
reads that says okay well where did the
Trinity thing come from yeah it
definitely is not in the text you know
this is something people added and what
is the text now which is
clear Oneness of God is Crystal Clear
it's the Quran now if we take what is
meant for a people at that time and
people saying the Son of God cuz many
people believe that Jesus was God Son of
God there's a bunch of confusion here
they have to do a bunch of mental
gymnastics to make it fit but now if you
take this what's meant is it that he was
a righteous upright person close to God
but if you take this out and you take it
now to let's say the Greeks who are
worshiping Demi God semi Gods this guy
that guy can you can that be where a lot
of the confusion came where now they
take what is meant for that time and is
understood and now you bring it over to
another totally Pagan society and
they're already worshiping man gods and
now we have what we have today modern
day man worship Jesus as a son son of
God well definitely I mean this is uh
one of the explanations of the process
of what took place yeah I mean of course
the message of Jesus was crystal clear
clear it had to be crystal clear because
if it's coming from God the clarity is
going to be there and it remained clear
clear but what happened is that when it
was taken out of
the the we could say the East and it
came now into the west then these
changes took place whether it was a
question of interpreting or
misinterpreting earlier texts or really
introducing ideas which were never in
the original text MH which I I feel it's
probably more of that than actually
misinterpretation CU misinterpretation
sort of implies that the message wasn't
that clear mhm whereas I don't believe
that it's the case in fact the message
of Jesus was very clear in fact after
Jesus
left as they thought he was killed or
whatever you know but when Jesus went
away the one who came behind him who
became the head of the Jerusalem Church
is none other than James who called in
the gospels the brother of Jesus mhm and
James as the head of the Jerusalem
Church taught that Jesus was a prophet
of God God was
one he was a Unitarian he wasn't a
trinitarian so wasn't on for that's for
those that period of almost like 70
years after the time of
Jesus that was the main Church the
Jerusalem Church was a Unitarian Church
preaching the message of the one God and
that Jesus was a human being and a
prophet of God who was sent to convey
this message but with the dispersion of
the the Jews the breakup of the Temple
of Solomon Jews being dispersed from
Jerusalem and of course the the Muslims
or we could say the judeo-christians of
that time uh who were those who truly
follow Jesus externally they wouldn't
look any different from the regular Jews
so when they disperse everybody had to
disperse so the Jerusalem Church which
was the main me core center from which
the teachings the true teachings of
Jesus being taught that was destroyed
and people had to flee so when that was
lost then the center in Antioch which
was headed by Paul right Paul now took
over the movement and he started
he had already been doing it earlier now
he was given a full clear hand James is
assassinated he has the full clear hand
to change the message and preach the new
religion which he called Christianity
which obviously Jesus his followers they
never taught never taught we opposed to
took Paul to task called him to
Jerusalem and question him why are you
doing this why you doing doing
that that's what's even recorded in the
gospels to today and the writings the
letters of Paul let's