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88 we presented in the form of a list—are there any among them that are not clear? 5) We were asked that while God has made the heavens and the earth and all things, what has Christ created? In reply to this it should be known that as a human being he did not create anything, but, as the Second Person of the Trinity it is written in Proverbs 8 and John 1 that whatever has been made, is made through him, and that no man has seen God but the Son, through the means of crea- tion, He has made Him known. 7) We did not say that the Lord Jesus became afraid; we stated that he extinguished their unjustified anger. 8) Christ did not make the former teachings more complicated; rather, he made the complicated teachings clearer. Thus, by becoming the manifestation of Allah, he exhibited those attributes that could not be shown in any other way. As we see in Matthew 6:9, God is the Father, in John 3:16 God is Love, and in John 4:24 God is the Spirit. Multiplicity in Unity was clearly stated in the Torah as it is in this verse: ‘Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. ’ Nevertheless, the Jews had a covering of ignorance upon their eyes, and the Lord lifted that covering. 9) The skill of explaining Divine Words is not something the Jews inherited even though they are the children of Prophets and trus- tees of the revelation and have continuously listened to them. This is because they have become filled with rancour and prejudice. And when the Lord Jesus said, ‘Do as they say but do not do what they do’, this clearly means that they say what the Torah says, but their actions are opposed to it.