16/05/2026
The established continuity of Christ’s message—transmitted from Jesus to His apostles and onward to their immediate followers—serves as a striking reminder to skeptics, and particularly to those Muslims who hold the Quranic view that the apostles neither believed in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus nor acknowledged Him as Lord. This position, however, obstructs historical truth while failing to identify who the apostles were, if not those attested to by the church of the first, second, third, and fourth centuries.
What is the rationale for rejecting the only means of salvation on account of a man who arose later and taught contrary to apostolic doctrine, thereby implying—albeit indirectly—that the apostles and their disciples were in error?
Meanwhile, John, an eyewitness to the events he recorded and a steadfast witness in his writings to the deity of Christ and the significance of His atoning sacrifice, issued a clear warning against heretics. He stated unequivocally that those who embrace doctrines denying the essential teachings of the apostles become partakers in the evil deeds of those heretics.
The greatest evil deed on earth is to alter the doctrine of God, the antiquity of which is preserved in manuscripts we possess today. The Almighty had previously promised through Isaiah that his writings would be a light (Isa 49:6) to the Gentile nations—a promise affirmed by the preservation of Isaiah’s text among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which confirm the apostolic doctrine rooted in Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 9:6 in particular.
This act of changing God’s doctrine is the gravest sin of all, for it denies many and blinds them to the true way of God.
There is a deception directed against the world’s salvation, one that remains hidden to those who have not yet responded to the message of Christ.
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.