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Contents
4.  Introduction
12.  The Crucifixion
19.  Early Christianity
28.  Is Jesus God?
31.  The Trinity
37.  The Bible
59.  Later Christianity and its Parallels in the wider world
76.  Where Does This Leave Us?

Whilst seeking the truth, the honest investigator wants
facts and this short work is intended for the sincere few
who seek to know the original belief of the people that
followed the teachings of Jesus,
peace be upon him
.
Before Nicea
 should not be viewed as 'Muslim propaganda'
or bias, rather as an honest look at the evidence that
qualified scholars have provided. This work also wants to
move away from relying on the bible and blindly quoting
from it in order to prove the true teachings of Jesus. Even
though there is obviously some truth in the gospels, it is
not the pure
Injeel
 that is mentioned in the Qur'aan as being
given to Jesus.
In assessing the comparisons between early Christianity
and Islam, the facts have been made accessible to the
reader and presented in a manner that does not wish to
antagonize. It is for the readers to make up their own
1
 This book,
Before Nicea
, originally completed in 1998
by Paul Addae and T im Bowes (Abdul-Haq
and Abdur-Rahmaan), has been revised for the
Da’wah
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minds and come to a conclusion about the evidence
presented.
Conducted over the last three hundred years, such research
is not a new phenomena. John Toland for example had
written his book
The Nazarenes
 in 1718 wherein he had
already noticed the similar beliefs and practices of the early
followers of Jesus and Muslims. Furthermore, John Biddle
wrote
The True Opinion Concerning the Holy Trinity (Twelve
Arguments)
in 1653, Joseph Priestly wrote eight books
including
A General History of the Church
, published in 1802
and
A History of the Corruption of Christianity
, published in
1871. A.C. MacGiffert wrote
A History of Christianity in the
Apostolic Age
 published in 1897,
The Apostles Creed
published
in 1902 and
The God of the Early Christians
 in 1924.
The discovery of the
Codex Sinaiticus
, the earliest almost
complete manuscript (fourth century), brought with it
more evidence for scholars to utilize. Using both these
older sources and the recent research based upon the
discoveries of early Christian manuscripts the reader will be
supplied with that which is accepted as sound.
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During conversations whilst compiling this work, it was
noted that many evangelical Christians would argue that
the Christian scholars quoted in this work for example are
‘not really Christian.’
 One of the ‘
Hyde Park Speakers Corner
Christian Fellowship’

 even went so far as to say that there is
not a single theologian who could be called a Christian,
because he felt that theology is an enemy of Christianity. It
is certainly true that most theologians do not understand
the Bible to be ‘divine revelation,’ rather a combination of
inspiration, commentary and interpretation. In many cases,
these theologians will say that it was Jesus himself who was
the ‘divine revelation’ and will feel perfectly free to reject
the idea that the Bible is unadulterated.
Therefore, it is understandable that Christians who believe
in the Bible as an uncorrupted whole, become hostile to
such scholars. Nevertheless, Christian evangelical
disapproval of theologians is quite contradictory and
unreasonable.
2
 This is a well known and peculiar group that com
prises a broad range of fundamentalist Christian
evangelists of the London area who are active in propaga
ting evangelical Christianity at London’s
Hyde Park Speaker’s

  book, in pdf format, the author of the site of the Salafist curriculum, which is a serious and serious study that talks about the early followers of Christ, and how was Christianity in its beginning and cradle, and is the fact that Christ is God? Is this what was prevalent in the era of Christ? Is the doctrine of Trinitarianism and then this narrative happens to us?