30. 5 The entire theology in the Christian world today is based on the idea that there are three gods — an idea that has arisen from the teaching that there is a trinity of persons.
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74. 17 The reference in Matthew 24:21 to “a great affliction such as has never existed since the world began and will never exist again” means an attack by falsities and the resulting end — the devastation — of all truth in the Christian denominations of today.
