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Man’s Search for Truth

English book, p. 55

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Man’s Search for Truth these people was a person named, Michael Servetus. In 1553, a Spanish religious court decided that he should be hanged. His ‘crime’ was simply that he used to say that the concept of the Trinity is not present in the Bible. When the religious court passed the death sentence against him, he fled and arrived in Switzerland, which had become a predominantly Protestant country under the influence of Calvin. The concept of the Trinity is considered to be a fundamental dogma of the Christian religion. However, strangely, there is no definite mention of the Trinity in the Bible. I once asked a European Christian priest where the concept of the Trinity was mentioned in the Bible. He kept flipping through a copy of an English translation of the Bible for around an hour. He presented some verses. However, I said to him that in these verses, Bible makes no explicit mention of the concept of the Trinity and that the primary or foundational concepts or dogmas of any religion ought to emerge clearly from its scriptures and not through some self-made interpretations. Finally, acknowledging his failure, the priest silently went away. I shared that man is a born seeker. Every human being regards himself as incomplete until he has found that supreme principle by which he can explain his

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