Mengetahui Kebaikan Dan Dosa

Artinya: Dari An-Nawwas bin Sam’an radiallahu ‘anhu dari Nabi Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam, Beliau bersabda: “Kebaikan adalah akhlak yang baik sedangkan dosa adalah apa yang terlintas di jiwamu tetapi kamu benci/takut diketahui oleh orang lain”, diriwayatkan oleh Imam Muslim.

Takhrij hadits secara global

Hadits ini diriwayatkan oleh Imam Muslim ; hadits no. 2553, Imam Ahmad ; 4/182, At-Turmuzi ; hadits no. 2389, Ad-Darimi ; 2/322, Imam Bukhari dalam kitabnya “Al-Adab Al-Mufrad” ; hal. 295, 302 . Hadits ini ditashhih oleh Ibnu Hibban; Shahih Ibn Hibban, hal. 397.

Makna hadits secara global

Nabi Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam menginformasikan kepada kita bahwa kebaikan adalah merupakan bagian dari akhlak yang baik yang dapat diketahui melalui hati nurani kita sebagaimana dijelaskan dalam riwayat yang lain dimana Nabi Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam menyarankan kepada kita agar kita minta ‘fatwa’ kepada hati nurani kita ketika terjadi perkara yang samar-samar karena sesungguhnya kebaikan itu adalah kebalikan dari dosa tersebut yaitu apa yang membuat jiwa/hati nurani tenang dan tentram kepadanya. Artinya apabila jiwa/hati nurani kita tidak menolaknya begitu pertama kali ingin kita lakukan dan tidak ragu-ragu atau merasa takut untuk diketahui oleh orang lain alias tidak sembunyi-sembunyi melakukannya maka itu merupakan tanda bahwa hal tersebut adalah baik.
Begitu pula sebaliknya, apabila begitu pertama kali ingin kita lakukan terasa was-was dan kita dalam melakukannya, takut diketahui oleh orang lain atau timbul keraguan untuk melakukannya (seperti dalam riwayat yang lain) maka itu pertanda bahwa apa yang kita akan lakukan itu adalah dosa.

Penjelasan Tambahan

Makna “al-Birr” dan karakteristiknya
Hadits-Hadits yang membicarakan hal ini sebagiannya mengandung penafsiran terhadap makna “al-Birr” (Kebaikan) dan “al-Itsm” (Dosa) dan sebagian yang lain mengandung penafsiran terhadap makna halal dan haram. Terjadinya perbedaan interpretasi terhadap makna “al-Birr” karena ia sering diucapkan dalam dua konteks tertentu; Pertama, dalam konteks bermuamalat kepada makhluk yang dimaksudkan sebagai berbuat kebaikan kepada mereka. Terkadang pemakaiannya (kata “al-Birr”) hanya khusus dipakai dalam arti berbuat baik kepada kedua orang tua maka dikatakan ” ” (berbuat baik kepada kedua orang tua) tetapi lebih banyak dipakai dalam konteks berbuat baik kepada makhluk secara umum, oleh karenanya banyak ulama dalam kitabnya menyajikan bab/kitab tersendiri yang dinamai ” ” dimana terdapat pembahasan tentang dan berbuat baik kepada makhluk secara umum. Sahabat Ibnu Umar radhiallahu ‘anhuma berkata :

“Kebaikan adalah sesuatu yang enteng/ringan yaitu wajah yang ceria dan ucapan yang lembut”. Kata “al-Birr” apabila dikaitkan dengan “taqwa” sebagaimana dalam ayat :
( ) maka terkadang maksud dari “al-Birr” adalah bermuamalat dengan makhluk secara baik dan “at-Taqwa” adalah bermuamalat dengan Allah yaitu dengan melakukan ketaatan kepadaNya dan menjauhi hal-hal yang diharamkan olehNya, terkadang pula arti dari “al-Birr” tersebut adalah melakukan kewajiban-kewajiban dan arti “at-Taqwa” adalah menjauhi hal-hal yang diharamkan.

Sedangkan arti dosa, sebagaimana dalam ayat :
( ) terkadang yang dimaksud dengan “al-Itsm” adalah perbuatan-perbuatan maksiat dan “al-’udwan” adalah menzalimi makhluk, dan terkadang yang dimaksud dengan “al-Itsm” adalah sesuatu yang esensinya memang diharamkan seperti zina, mencuri dan minum khamar (bir), dan yang dimaksud dengan “al-’Udwan” adalah melampaui batas sesuatu yang memang diizinkan (secara syar’i) sebelumnya sehingga menjadi dilarang seperti mengambil zakat yang dikeluarkan oleh para wajib zakat melebihi ukuran yang diwajibkan kepada mereka, melampaui cambukan yang diperintahkan oleh syara’ dalam masalah hudud, dll.

Kedua, Yang dimaksud dengan “al-Birr” adalah mengerjakan semua ketaatan baik yang zhahir maupun yang bathin sebagaimana dalam surat al-Baqarah ayat 177. Berkaitan dengan ayat 177 surat al-Baqarah; maka makna “al-Birr” mencakup seluruh ketaatan yang bathin seperti beriman kepada Allah, MalaekatNya, Kitab-Kitab dan Para RasulNya, begitu juga ketaatan yang zhahir seperti menginfakkan harta ke jalan yang diridhai oleh Allah, mendirikan shalat, membayar zakat, menepati janji, sabar terhadap taqdir seperti kemiskinan dan penyakit, dst. Dalam pada itu, bisa jadi arti “husnul khuluq” adalah berakhlak dengan akhlak syari’at secara keseluruhan dan bertata krama dengan tata krama yang telah diajarkan oleh Allah kepada hambaNya, sebagaimana tersurat dalam firmanNya:

( ). [Q.S. Al-Qalam : 2]. Aisyah radhiallahu ‘anha berkata : “akhlak Rasul Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam Al-Quran”. Maksudnya menurut Syaikh Ibnu Rajab, bahwa Beliau Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam beradab dengan adabNya karenanya beliau menjalankan seluruh perintahNya dan menjauhi seluruh laranganNya maka dengan demikian mengamalkan Al-Quran sudah menjadi akhlak beliau seperti hal nya sifat alami yang begitu melekat dan tidak terpisahkan lagi dan inilah akhlak yang paling baik, paling mulia dan paling indah. Karena itu pula dikatakan bahwa agama seluruh ajarannya adalah akhlak.

Tidak jauh dari penfsiran “al-Birr” , sebagaimana dalam riwayat yang lain, disebutkan bahwa “al-Birr adalah apa yang membuat hati dan jiwa tenteram kepadanya”, atau “apa yang membuat dada lapang” maka kata “al-Halal” juga ditafsirkan demikian. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa Allah telah memfitrahkan kepada manusia untuk mengetahui kebenaran, membuat hati tenang dan menerimanya, serta menjadikan tabiat selalu mencintainya dan menjauhi lawannya/hal yang bertentangan dengannya.

Termasuk dalam makna riwayat-riwayat hadits diatas, makna hadits qudsi yang menyatakan bahwa Allah menciptakan hamba-hambaNya sebagai orang-orang yang hunafa’ (lurus) dan muslimin (berserah diri kepadaNya) namun syaithanlah yang melencengkannya dengan mengharamkan apa yang Allah halalkan kepada mereka, dan mengajak mereka untuk berbuat syirik kepadaNya, begitu juga makna hadits yang amat populer yang berbunyi: ” Tiap-Tiap anak dilahirkan dalam keadaan fitrah maka kedua orang tuanyalah yang meyahudikannya atau menasranikannya atau memajusikannya … ” dan ayat 30 surat ar-Rum. Oleh karenanya, Allah menamai apa yang diperintahkanNya sebagai “ma’ruf” dan apa yang dilarangNya sebagai “munkar”.

Berkaitan dengan hal itu juga, sahabat Mu’az bin Jabal mengingatkan agar kita tidak terpasung oleh kepiawaian seorang penguasa dalam berkelit karena terkadang syaithan menyatakan kesesatan melalui lisan sang penguasa tersebut, dan terkadang seorang Munafiq bisa berkata dengan perkataan yang benar. Dan ketika dia (Mu’az) ditanyai kenapa bisa demikian ?, dia meminta agar kita menjauhi perkataan seorang penguasa yang amat populer (dalam berkelit) “bukan begini (sebenarnya)?”, dan agar perkataan semacam itu tidak membuat kita tergoda/terpasung untuk menerima kebenaran yang kita dengar sebab kebenaran itu memiliki cahaya. Ucapan Mu’az bin Jabal ini menunjukkan bahwa seorang Mukmin tidak akan bisa dikelabui dalam membedakan antara hak dan bathil tetapi ia bisa mengetahui kebenaran itu melalui cahaya yang ada padanya (kebenaran tersebut) sehingga hatinya menerimanya dan menghindari kebathilan dengan mengingkari dan tidak ingin mengenalnya.

Makna inilah yang terdapat dalam hadits Nabi Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam : “akan datang pada akhir zaman suatu kaum yang berbicara kepada kamu tentang sesuatu yang tidak pernah kamu dan nenek moyang kamu denganr (sebelumnya) maka berhati-hatilah kamu dari mereka “. Artinya bahwa mereka membawa sesuatu yang diingkari/ditolak oleh hati orang-orang yang beriman dan tidak mengenalnya.

Makna “al-Itsm” dan karakteristiknya

Sementara itu, sabda Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam : “dosa adalah apa yang terdetik didalam dada/hati sedangkan kamu benci/takut diketahui oleh orang lain”(sebagaimana dalam penggalan kedua dalam makna hadits diatas), mengisyaratkan bahwa pengaruh dosa terhadap jiwa/dada sangat besar sekali yaitu adanya rasa sesak, cemas, gundah gulana sehingga dada tidak merasa lega/lapang untuk menerimanya, disamping hal itu sangat ditolak/diingkari oleh orang banyak dimana mereka akan langsung mengingkarinya begitu mengetahuinya.

Dalam mengidentifikasi karakteristik dosa yang dalam kondisi yang samar-samar terdapat tingkatan-tingkatan, diantaranya ;

- Mengetahui hal itu dari reaksi yang ditimbulkan oleh orang banyak yaitu pengingkaran/penolakan mereka terhadap pelakunya atau bukan pelakunya dan ini merupakan tingkatan paling tinggi. Senada dengan hal ini adalah ucapan Sahabat Ibnu Mas’ud yang amat populer: “Apa yang dipandang oleh orang-orang mukminin baik maka hal itu adalah baik disisi Allah, dan apa yang mereka pandang jelek maka hal itu adalah jelek disisi Allah “.

- Sangsi terhadap apa yang difatwakan/masukan dari orang lain (yang menganggap/memandang hal itu adalah bukan dosa) dan ciri/caranya adalah dangan mengetahui bahwa sesuatu (perbuatan) itu sangat diingkari oleh pelakunya tetapi tidak diingkari oleh orang lain (dianggap biasa). Makna inilah yang terdapat dalam lafazh riwayat yang lain; ” ” (meskipun kamu diberi fatwa/masukan oleh orang lain). Kondisi ini bisa terjadi bila orang yang diberi fatwa/masukan itu adalah orang yang dilapangkan dadanya oleh Allah dengan iman sedangkan orang yang memberikan fatwa/masukan itu sekedar menduga-duga atau mengikuti hawa nafsunya tanpa dilandasi dalil syar’i, akan tetapi bila yang difatwakan/masukan itu berdasarkan dalil syat’i, maka dia (orang yang diberi fatwa/masukan) wajib merujuknya/meresponsnya meskipun dada/hatinya belum terbuka untuk menerimanya seperti perihal rukhshah yang disyari’atkan; semisal berbuka puasa ketika dalam keadaan bepergian, sakit, mengqashar shalat, dll yang bagi orang-orang yang jahil tidak terbuka hatinya untuk menerima itu, maka hal ini (pengingkaran mereka) tidak bisa dijadikan ‘ibrah (dalil/alasan). Dan hal semacam ini pernah dialami oleh para sahabat contohnya perintah Beliau Shallallahu ‘alaihi Wasallam pada waktu haji agar mereka melakukan haji tamattu’ atau ketika perjanjian Hudaibiyah. Ketika itu mereka sempat mengingkarinya karena hati mereka menolaknya.
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Masalah Ilham

Persoalan merujuk kepada hati nurani dalam menghadapi hal yang masih samar sebagaimana hadits diatas berimplikasi kepada masalah ilham yang sering diperbincangkan oleh para Fuqaha Syafi’iyah dan Hanafiyah yang menganut aliran kalam dalam Ushul Fiqh; apakah ilham tersebut hujjah atau bukan dalam pengambilan hukum syar’i ?. Dalam masalah ini banyak sekali pendapat-pendapat khususnya di kalangan kaum Sufi dan Ahli Kalam yang semuanya tidak berdasarkan kepada dalil syar’i . Karenanya Imam Ahmad mengecam hal itu dan beliau menganjurkan agar merujuk kepada hati nurani dalam menghadapi hal yang masih samar tersebut bila hal itu berdasarkan dalil syar’i sebab nash-nash nabawi yang menganjurkan hal itu sangat jelas. Artinya kecamannya terhadap kaum Sufi dan Ahli Kalam bukan atas perbuatan merujuk hati nurani tetapi atas kebiasaan mereka seperti itu yang dilakukan tanpa dalil syar’i .

Dalam ilmu hadits, kacamata ini (ilham) dipakai oleh Ulama Hadits yang benar-benar menggeluti dan mengusainya (an-Naqqad) . Hal itu mereka lakukan dalam menilai keadaan para perawi dan para pemberita dan sifat-sifat mereka seperti kejujuran dan kebohongan mereka, kekuatan daya hafal dan kedhabitan mereka, tetapi orang-orang seperti ini sangat langka sekali. Diantara Ulama Hadits yang dianggap memiliki cara dan naluri seperti ini (ilham) adalah Imam Abu Zur’ah, Abu Hatim ar-Razi, Abdurrahman bin Mahdi, an-Nasai, al-’Uqaili, Ibnu ‘Adi dan ad-Daruquthni.

Intisari Hadits

Dalam hadits diatas dapat diambil kesimpulan sebagai berikut:

• Kebaikan adalah akhlak yang baik dan dosa adalah apa yang terdetik di dalam hati/jiwa sedangkan pelakunya takut/benci diketahui oleh orang lain.
• Dalam menghadapi hal yang masih samar dan meragukan, kita dianjurkan untuk merujuk/meminta “fatwa” hati nurani dan hal ini bagi orang Mukmin yang dilapangkan hati/dadanya oleh Allah sangat mudah dilakukan olehnya sehingga mereka jarang terkelabui dalam membedakan antara hak dan bathil.
• Makna “al-Birr” sangat luas cakupannya begitu juga makna “al-Itsm” dan masing-masing sudah memiliki karakteristik tersendiri yang dapat diidentifikasi.
• Hanya orang-orang yang dilapangkan dadanya oleh Allah lah yang dapat melihat suatu kebenaran dengan ilham yang berdasarkan kepada dalil syar’i seperti yang dilakukan Ulama Hadits Pilihan (an-Naqqad).

Crispy Onion Rava Dosai ….

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Rava/Sooji

1/2 cup Rice flour

1/2 cup Maida/All purpose flour

2 Green chillies chopped

1 Big Onion chopped

Curry leaves

2 tbsp Jeera/Cumin seeds

2 tbsp  Balck Pepper

Some broken cashews

Salt to taste

Method:

1. Soak rava,rice flour and maida in water for around 2hrs.

2. Just before preparing dosas add the other ingredients such as chopped onions, green chillies, pepper,  jeera, curry leaves,salt and cashew to the soaked mixture.

3. Dilute the batter to a watery consistence but make sure that the batter is not transparent.

4. Now pour the batter or rather sprinkle the batter onto a hot dosa tava and pour enough oil for it to roast.

5. Once the dosa turns brown and crispy on the lower side ,flip to the other side.

6. Take it off the tava and pour the batter for the next dosai.

Titbits

*More the time you soak the rava,rice flour and maida ,the more yummmy dosas u make 

* Variate the quantity you want using the basic proportion rava:rice flour:maida :: 1 : 1 : 1

* Just omit the onions to make plain rava dosas.

* Don’t carry forward the batter for more than a day. They will not taste fresh.

Thanks a ton!

Enjoy the crispy onion rava dosai with the authentic mulaga podi and coconut chuttney.

Thanks Sharmi for the recipie!!!

Moong Dal Dosa..Sharmi, my colleague says this dosa is rich in protein..and an ideal breakfast..

Ingredients:

Moong Dal : 1/4 cup

Rice: 3/4 cup

Salt:  to taste

Method:

Soak the moong dal and rice overnight

Grind the moon dal and rice to a normal dosa batter consistency..

Now the batter is ready..and make dosas out of it..

Simple..isn’t it?

PENGLIHATAN DAN PERNYATAAN TUHAN KEPADA CHOO THOMAS
February 17, 2009 (A Message from Choo Thomas)
Hallelujah, Tribulasi Sudah Dimulai – MARANATHA!!!

“………..Tuhan memberitahu saya beberapa bulan lalu bahwa tribulasi baru saja dimulai. Tuhan memperingatkan dan mempersiapkan orang2 untuk rapture tetapi menyadari tidak banyak yang memberi perhatian terhadap tanda2 dari rapture dan mereka akan menjadi sangat terkejut karena Dia akan hanya membawa mereka yang siap dan menantikan Dia. Tuhan juga berkata bahwa Dia telah memberikan cukup kesempatan kepada setiap manusia untuk bersiap akan kedatanganNya. Sekarang tribulasi telah dimulai dan ini berarti rapture dapat terjadi setiap saat bagi mereka yang telah siap dan menantikannya. Setelah Dia mengangkat orang2 pilihanNya, kemudian antikris akan mengambil dunia dan bencana besar akan datang……….

Ini adalah kisah pendeta Ricardo Cid yang mengalami pengalaman spiritual berada di surga selama 8 jam.

Tuhan berkata, “Aku mengirimkan pesan ini kepada umatKu di muka bumi, karena sesungguhnya Aku ada di Surga.”

Pada akhir zaman, manusia akan ditanami chip. Apa sebenarnya tujuan sistem dunia ini mempersiapkan sebuah chip pada manusia ?
Jawabannya adalah mempersiapkan tatanan masyarakat baru dengan satu tujuan, satu pemimpin, dan satu sistem (new world order) yang dipimpin oleh satu pemimpin yaitu Antikris (I Yoh 2:18)
Alkitab menubuatkan bahwa Iblis, Antikris, dan Nabi Palsu akan menguasai dunia dalam segala bidang : “…dan kepadanya diberikan kuasa atas setiap suku dan umat dan bahasa dan bangsa.” (Why 13:7).

Seri akhir Zaman
Tanda spesifik akhir zaman

“Kemudian aku melihat dalam penglihatan malam itu, tampak seekor binatang yang keempat, yang menakutkan dan mendahsyatkan, dan ia sangat kuat, Ia bergigi besar dari besi; ia melahap dan meremukkan, dan sisanya diinjak-injaknya dengan kakinya; ia berbeda dengan segala binatang yang terdahulu; lagipula ia bertanduk sepuluh.” (Daniel 7:7)
Penggenapan nubuatan terpenting berkaitan dengan perkembangan akhir zaman adalah kembalinya orang-orang Yahudi ke Timur Tengah yang mengakibatkan berdirinya negara Israel di tahun 1948, dan yang terpenting kedua adalah perkembangan terbentuknya Konfederasi Eropa atau Eropa Bersatu (European Union), sebab bersatunya negara-negara Eropa merupakan penggenapan dari mimpi Nebukadnezar (Daniel 2), mimpi Daniel (Daniel 7) dan penglihatan Daniel (Daniel tentang akhir zaman.

Rapture adalah suatu proses pengangkatan yang akan dialami orang percaya dan akan dibawa ke awan-awan untuk menyongsong Tuhan Yesus (I Tes 4:17), lalu masuk dalam perjamuan kawin Anak Domba sebagai mempelai wanita-Nya.

Sejalan dengan perkembangan teknologi, upaya untuk mengurangi ketergantungan terhadap uang tunai ini bisa dilakukan dengan cara mengganti sistem pembayaran tunai menjadi elektronik. Sistem nirtunai diyakini lebih efektif (terutama untuk micro payment /pembayaran receh), efisien (tanpa harus membawa uang tunai jumlah banyak), cepat dan aman.

Pada hari-hari terakhir masa pemerintahan Antikris akan terjadi lagi perang besar, perang kali ini berasal dari raja-raja dari sebelah Timur (Timur Israel) yaitu bala tentara yang datang dari Asia. Para penafsir percaya bahwa mereka adalah…..

Buku Pintar Konseling Dunia Roh (Oleh : Ev. Daud Tony)

Mengapa buku ini dimulai dengan tema keselamatan? Bukankah kita sedang bicara tentang menjadi penginjil api? Karena saya mengalami dalam pelayanan bersama tim Dunia Roh Ministry lainnya, adalah satu area peperangan rohani saat ini adalah dibidang keselamatan. Iblis berusaha membuat orang-orang meragukan berita kepastian keselamatan ini,………..

Sudah bukan rahasia lagi kalau hari-hari ini dunia sedang mengalami hari pencobaan, resesi ekonomi, resesi keuangan sedang melanda dunia ini. Beberapa hari yang lalu sebuah surat kabar Kompas, menuliskan “IMF dan Worldbank memperingatkan bahwa krisis masih jauh dari usai.”

Without a hint of the mad Bollywood-set lighting and billowing spice market-hued fabrics of Chakra and none of the casual hipness of a longtime take-out standard like Nikki’s, Dosa Place has more than managed as the homely sister by catering weddings and hawking a  serviceable lunch buffet to hungry Indian crowds looking for a lunchtime replacement of mom’s sambar in its dark strip mall cavern on Red Hill.

Its newly-opened second location is painted conservative gold and burgundy in its former steakhouse digs minus the booths and plus sleek black scrim-like shades and  heavy tasselled drapes. Is it cool? Not by a long shot. The handsome dark woods and 3-D paintings of Indian scenes give it a respectable if faintly matronly air: somewhere you’d take your co-workers, or grandma visiting from Kerala. Utilitarian and budget friendly, the steam table lunch buffet is also pushed here.  But the reason I love this place has nothing to do with décor or all-you-can-eat tandoori chicken. Dosa’s hidden charms are found on the regular menu. 

Mysore Madness!

Start with the Mysore Masala Dosa, a lentil batter crepe the size of the LA Times, its crackling golden brown paper-thin layers spiked with an incendiary blend of crushed udad dal, red pepper and tamarind swaddling a thick smear of curried whipped potato filling.  You’ll have to completely dismantle the thing to dip it in the soothing side of coriander and coconut-spiked sambar, or you can just spoon it on. A paneer dosa on another day didn’t have the same papery crispness or the promised spiciness as denoted by a chili pepper icon on the menu, even with the side of red curry. Sort of like a benign, flaccid Indian quesadilla.

If chapter four of Skinny Bitch grossed you out with its descriptions of factory farming and scared you into becoming an ambivalent-but- fabulously-emaciated vegetarian, you would get along great here because half the menu is meatless. This fact won’t occur to most omnivores thanks to vegetable dishes as complex and multifaceted as Hindu deities. Okra is doused with mustard seed onion  and   tomato,  perfumed with garlic and ginger paste, laden with aromatic curry leaves and fried with tiny lentils resulting in a surprising nutty crunch. Try the Baighan Baratha. The tandoor renders the eggplant velvety and it oozes with flavors of tomato, onion, chilies and a masala mixture too exhaustive for my poor server to recite. 

 Animal dishes rate high with me; smoldering rivers of viscous red curry studded with tender hunks of lamb,  fiery tamarind-based catfish curry with notes of red chili and jalapeños and chicken tikka masala as good as any around. On to our discussion of local Indian food, our waiter told us he had worked for twelve Indian restaurants and this was the best by far. “I believe in Karma.” he said. So do I.  

Dosa Place 17245 Seventeenth St. Tustin 714.508.7788. Dinner for two, $40.00, food only.

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Berikut tulisannya:

According to orthodox Trinitarian doctrine, if a person claims to be a Christian but does not believe in the Trinity, he is not saved. [1] Is that the truth? Not from the evidence in the Bible. In fact, the evidence in Scripture is that a person can be saved without even knowing about the Trinity. Before we discuss the issue further, however, we need to know the definition of the Trinity according to orthodox theologians. This is important because some Christians think they are Trinitarians simply because they believe in the Father, the Son, and a being called “the Holy Spirit.” But that is not the Trinity. The doctrine of the Trinity is that the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and together these “three Persons” make one God; and these three are co-equal and co-eternal, the Son having been “eternally begotten” of the Father, and Jesus being simultaneously 100% God and 100% man.

Menurut doktrin ortodox trinitas, jika seseorang mengaku kristen tetapi tidak percaya trinitas, dia tidak diselamatkan. Apakah hal itu benar ? Tidak, kalau melihat bukti yang ada didalam Bible. Faktanya, bukti di dalam kitab suci adalah bahwa seseorang dapat diselamatkan bahkan tanpa mengetahui tentang trinitas.

Sebelum kita mendiskusikan hal ini lebih lanjut, bagaimanapun juga, kita perlu tahu definisi trinitas menurut teologis ortodox. Hal ini penting karena sebagian kristiani berfikir bahwa mereka adalah trinitarian hanya karena mereka percaya Bapak, Anak, dan Roh Suci. Tapi itu bukan konsep trinitas.

Doktrin trinitas adalah bahwa Bapak adalah Tuhan, Anak adalah Tuhan dan Roh Suci adalah Tuhan, dan bersama-sama ketiga unsur tersebut membentuk satu Tuhan; dan ketiganya adalah sederajat dan sama-sama abadi, sang anak menjadi abadi dari Bapak, dan Yesus secara bersamaan adalah 100% Tuhan dan 100% manusia.

We of Spirit & Truth Fellowship International have encountered Trinitarians who say that a person will be saved if he believes that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man, even if he does not believe the full doctrine of the Trinity. First, that is not the doctrinal position of the Orthodox Church, and second, the Bible never says that believing Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man is necessary for salvation. Non-Trinitarians assert that a person can be saved without believing in the Trinity, and demand, as did Martin Luther during the Reformation, that we be convinced from Scripture that what Trinitarians teach is true. Perhaps a good question to begin this study is, “When did God start requiring that a person believe in the Trinity to be saved?”

Kami dari Spirit & Truth Fellowship International sudah berhadapan dengan Trinitarian yang mengatakan bahwa seseorang akan diselamatkan jika percaya bahwa Yesus itu 100% Tuhan dan 100% manusia, sekalipun jika dia tidak percaya secara penuh, doktrin trinitas.

Pertama, bahwa itu bukan posisi doktrin Gereja Ortodoks, dan kedua, Bible tidak pernah mengatakan bahwa meyakini Yesus adalah 100% Tuhan dan sekaligus 100% manusia itu diperlukan untuk penyelamatan.

Non trinitarian menegaskan bahwa seseorang dapat diselamatkan tanpa meyakini trinitas dan menuntut, seperti yang dituntut Martin Luther selama Reformasi, bahwa kita diyakinkan dari kitab suci bahwa apa yang diajarkan trinitarian adalah benar.

Mungkin pertanyaan yang pas untuk memulai studi ini adalah : “Kapan Tuhan mengatur bahwa orang yang percaya pada trinitas akan diselamatkan ?

The Old Testament

The Old Testament does not teach the Trinity, or even set forth clearly that the Messiah would be God. Therefore it is unreasonable to think that someone back then had to believe it to be saved. [2] There is no evidence of anyone knowing about, or believing in, the Trinity in all the Jewish literature before Christ, including the Old Testament, the Jewish targums and commentaries, the Apocrypha or other apocryphal literature, or the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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It is well known that the foundational tenet of the Old Testament faith was, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deut. 6:4 – KJV), and the Jews fiercely defended that faith against polytheism of all kinds. There are some singular verses that Trinitarians today say point to the doctrine of the Trinity underlying the revelation of the Old Testament, but none expound it clearly enough that anyone would have formulated the doctrine of a Triune God from them, and there is no historical record that anyone did (which is good evidence for the validity of our point that all those verses have a non-Trinitarian explanation).

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Trinitarian scholars are aware of the fact that the Old Testament does not teach the Trinity. The distinguished Trinitarian scholar Bertrand de Margerie writes:

“…contemporary exegetes [Bible teachers] affirm unanimously that the Old Testament did not bring to the Jewish people a clear and distinct Revelation of the existence of a plurality of persons in God. In this they agree with the clear and frequent affirmation of Fathers such as Irenaeus, Hilary, and Gregory of Nazianzus: that the doctrine of the Trinity is revealed only in the New Testament.” [3]

So Trinitarians admit that the Trinity is not revealed in the Old Testament, and thus both Trinitarians and non-Trinitarians agree that before Jesus’ ministry a person did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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The Four Gospels

We have seen that both Trinitarians and non-Trinitarians agree that a person living during the Old Testament did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved because there was no presentation of the Trinity in the Old Testament for them to believe. However, Trinitarians hold that during the ministry of Jesus, and afterward, a person had to believe in the Trinity to be saved. This means that if Jesus or the Apostles wanted anyone to be saved, they had to teach the person more than was in the Old Testament. If Trinitarians are correct, we should see a clear presentation of the Trinity in Scripture, but we do not, nor is there any record that Jesus, or anyone else, ever taught the doctrine of the Trinity to anyone in order to get him saved.

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To know what people during the time of Jesus had to do to be saved, all we have to do is read the Gospels. Before we go any further, however, we should understand what the Jews at the time of Jesus were expecting in a Messiah. The Messiah the Old Testament portrayed was a human empowered by God. He would be from the line of Abraham (Gen. 22:18), from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10), a descendant of David (2 Sam. 7:12 and 13), a Lord under Yahweh, the God of Israel (Ps. 110:1), [4] and he was to be one of their own people: “Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them…” (Jer. 30:21). Although they did understand these things about their Messiah, the first-century Jews were not expecting their Messiah to be born of a virgin, which is why the angel had to instruct Mary about it (Luke 1:34 and 35). Nor did they expect him to die (Matt. 16:21 and 22; John 12:32-34). They were correct, however, in that they were not expecting a God-man, a “Person” of the Godhead, a part of a Triune God.

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When it came to the first century Jews not expecting the Messiah to die, Jesus worked very hard to correct that misunderstanding, teaching over and over that he must die (Matt. 16:21, 17:9, 20:19 and 28, 26:2, 12 and 27-32). But there is not one single account of Jesus correcting anyone’s belief that he was a fully human Messiah. Never did he say he was part of the Trinity, or that a person had to believe in the Trinity to be saved. Furthermore, the first century Jews believed that “the Spirit of God” or “the Holy Spirit” was not a separate Person in the Trinity, but was another name for God, just as Yahweh, Elohim, or El Shaddai, were other names for the one true God. When Genesis 1:2 mentions “the Spirit of God,” Jews correctly believed it was another name for God or a reference to His invisible power at work. Yet there is no record of Jesus ever trying to “correct” them and show that the Holy Spirit was a third Person in the Trinity. That is very solid evidence that they did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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If Jesus had taught that a person had to believe in the Trinity to be saved, the perfect time for him to have done so would have been when a young man came to him and asked, “…Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” (Matt. 19:16). If this young man had to believe in the Trinity to be saved, this was the time to say so. Instead, Jesus said, “…If you want to enter life, obey the commandments” (Matt. 19:17). Jesus further instructed the man that if he wanted to be “perfect” (which Mark 10:21 equates as having treasure in heaven) he should sell his worldly possessions and follow him (Matt. 19:21). Jesus never said to the man that belief in any aspect of the Trinity was necessary for salvation.

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Another time Jesus could have easily taught the Trinity, or even that he was God, was when he traveled through Samaria, the district north of Jerusalem and south of Galilee. The Samaritans were not Jews, but foreigners who had been brought into the area and had adopted some parts of the Jewish religion. The Jews regarded them as horrible pagans and pretenders, and had nothing to do with them. When Jesus met the woman at the well in Samaria, she said she knew the Messiah was coming (John 4:25). However, her understanding of the Messiah would have come from the Old Testament and what her tradition taught, so when Jesus said, “…I who speak to you am he” (John 4:26), she never would have concluded that he was somehow God, or part of a Triune God. If she needed to believe that to be saved, Jesus would have taught it to her, as well as to the people from Samaria who came to meet him after the woman told them about him (John 4:41). However, there is no hint in Scripture he ever mentioned the Trinity. Did he ignore their need for salvation? Of course not. What is evident from this record is that a person did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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Another example of a person being saved without believing in the Trinity is the immoral woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with her tears while he was eating. All Jesus said to her was, “…Your sins are forgiven” and “…Your faith has saved you; go in peace” (Luke 7:48 and 50). Are we to believe that somehow this Galilean Jewess knew that Jesus was part of a Triune God, and by knowing that she gained salvation? Such an assumption would be to stretch the record beyond credible limits. The woman was a sinner, not a theologian, and if she went to synagogue at all, which is questionable, she would have known about the Messiah only from what the Old Testament taught. There is no reason to believe that she somehow pasted together statements Jesus had made to build a case for the Trinity, and then believed it. She, like millions of Old Testament believers before her, was saved without believing in the Trinity.

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Theologians build the doctrine of the Trinity with verses pulled from all over the Bible, but only a few actually spoken by Jesus can even be used to support it, and none of those mention “the Holy Spirit” in any decisive sense as being a distinct “Person.” [5] Furthermore, each statement Jesus made that modern Trinitarians use to paste together their case for a Trinity has an alternative, non-Trinitarian explanation. This is important, because although a person who already believes in the Trinity might think that what Jesus said supported the doctrine of the Trinity, someone who never heard of the Trinity would understand what Jesus said in a totally different way.

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A good example of this was when Jesus said, “…if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins” (John 8:24). Some Trinitarians see this statement as supporting the Trinity, but someone who did not know that doctrine would understand the statement in light of what he knew and believed, especially if what Jesus said made sense in terms of the beliefs he already held. In the case of John 8:24, the Jews he was speaking to were expecting a human Messiah and that people who rejected him would die in their sins. What Jesus said fit their understanding perfectly. Jesus had to have known that, so if he was trying to say that anyone who did not believe in the Trinity was unsaved, he did a poor job of making his point. He certainly never stated that if someone does not believe in the Trinity, he would die in his sins.

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If a person did need to believe in the Trinity to be saved, we would expect that Jesus would have been at least as aggressive in teaching that as he was about correcting other erroneous beliefs of his day. For example, we mentioned earlier that Jesus plainly taught his disciples that he had to die, even though they were not expecting it. He also corrected the Sadducees concerning the resurrection very plainly, telling them, “You are in error” (Matt. 22:29). Time after time he openly corrected the errors believed by the people around him. In the Sermon on the Mount he corrected many erroneous teachings, including the people’s misunderstanding about love, revenge, adultery, divorce, and anger, often saying, “You have heard that it was said…But I tell you…” (Matt. 5:21-44). But never in that important teaching that spans three entire chapters in Matthew does he correct their ideas about him being a real human being, or teach them about the Trinity, which he would have were it necessary to believe that to be saved. After all, which is the more important theological mistake, being wrong about anger, or taking an oath, or praying in public, or being wrong about the true nature of God?

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If the Trinity were a true doctrine, and especially if a person has to believe it to be saved, we would have expected Jesus to say something in the Sermon on the Mount such as this:

“You have heard that it was said” that God is One, “but I tell you” that God is a Trinity, one God made of three distinct Persons. [6] “You have heard that it was said” that the Messiah will be one from among you, “but I tell you” he will be more than that, he will be God incarnated in human flesh. “You have heard that it was said” that the holy spirit is the invisible spirit power of God, “but I tell you” that Holy Spirit is much more than that, he is the third Person in a Triune Godhead.”

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Are we to believe that Jesus openly and plainly corrected errors in people’s understanding about many different issues while never correcting people’s erroneous thinking that he was the human Messiah they expected, and not a “Person” in a Triune God, especially if their error meant they were not saved? That makes no sense. He did not even correct his closest disciples about the Trinity. When Jesus asked Peter, “…Who do you say I am?” (Matt. 16:15), …Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (Matt. 16:16). Peter believed Jesus was the Christ he had been taught about in synagogue and was expecting, not God in the flesh who was part of the Trinity. Yet Jesus did not correct Peter, but instead complimented him on his insight, saying he was “Blessed” (Matt. 16:17).

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Jesus never taught the doctrine of the Trinity or told anyone he had to believe it to be saved. Furthermore, he never corrected anyone’s belief that he was the human Messiah they expected and not part of a Triune God. When he taught about himself from the Old Testament, as he did in Nazareth when he quoted from Isaiah (Luke 4:18 and 19), he never even hinted that there was more to believe about him than the Old Testament scriptures taught. Nor did he ever correct anyone’s understanding about the Holy Spirit. All this is conclusive evidence that Jesus did not teach that a person had to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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The Book of Acts

The book of Acts records the teachings of the Apostles and disciples as they spread the good news of Jesus. It is reasonable that if the doctrine of the Trinity were a truth not revealed in the Old Testament but necessary for Christian salvation, it should be clearly taught in Acts. After all, many Trinitarians believe that for an unbelieving Jew or pagan Gentile to be saved, he must believe in the Trinity. The book of Acts, then, is a proving ground for what unbelievers need to know in order to be saved. So what do we see in Acts? In all the sermons in the book of Acts there is not one presentation of the Trinity.

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What Acts does record very clearly is that Jesus was a man, the servant of God, who was God’s anointed (“Messiah” in Hebrew, “Christ” in Greek), who died, whom God raised from the dead and exalted, and who will be the future King and Judge of all mankind. Furthermore, those who hear and believe that message get saved without hearing anything about the Trinity. Time after time Paul and others went into Jewish Synagogues and taught from the Old Testament about the Messiah, explaining that Jesus was the Messiah the Old Testament spoke of, and that teaching was enough to get people saved. There is not one record of Paul or others saying that what the Old Testament taught about the Messiah was not enough for salvation.

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What follows are summations of teachings in the book of Acts when believers preached the Word of God in order to get people saved. Almost every record listed below includes something that a speaker actually said to convince the audience about Jesus. If a record in Acts simply notes that someone such as Paul taught, but it does not record what he said, or if the purpose of the conversation was not about getting someone saved, the record is not included in the list below. Each will show that there was no presentation of the Trinity, or that believing it was necessary for salvation.

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Acts 2:14-36. Peter spoke to the crowd of unsaved Jews in the Temple on the Day of Pentecost, just 50 days after Jesus was crucified. These Jews did not live in Israel, but had come to Jerusalem from the far reaches of the Roman Empire, including Parthia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Libya, Rome, Crete, Arabia, and parts of what today is the nation of Turkey (Acts 2:9-11). They had not heard Jesus or the Apostles teach. All they knew about the Messiah was from the Old Testament and traditions about him, none of which included the doctrine of the Trinity or Jesus being God. Thus it is fair to conclude that if they needed to believe in the Trinity to be saved, someone would have to teach them about it. On Pentecost, however, Peter presented Jesus as a “man approved of God” who was crucified and whom God raised from the dead, much of which he backed up by quoting the Old Testament. Peter never mentioned the Trinity or Jesus being God, yet about three thousand people got saved that day. This is conclusive evidence that on the Day of Pentecost, the start of the Christian Church, a person did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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Acts 3:12-26. Peter spoke to a crowd that had gathered in the Temple because a lame man had been miraculously healed. This crowd gathered inside the Temple, so they would have been Jews or interested Gentiles who were not saved. That means that they had either not heard, or had rejected, earlier presentations about Jesus being the Messiah, including the one taught close to the very spot where they were standing on the Day of Pentecost. [7] Peter taught these unsaved men and women that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob glorified “His servant Jesus.” He further taught that Jesus had died and God had raised him from the dead. He also quoted Deuteronomy 18:15, that Christ was to be “a prophet like me [Moses].” There was nothing in Peter’s teaching about the Trinity or Jesus being God, and yet so many people were saved that the number of Christians in Jerusalem grew to 5,000 men, not counting the women and children (Acts 4:4).

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Acts 4:8-12. Peter spoke to the Jewish rulers and elders, and taught that although they had crucified Jesus of Nazareth, God raised Him from the dead. He did not make any presentation of the Trinity or Jesus being God. These were mostly the same men who were at Jesus’ trials, and there is no record in Scripture that any of them believed what Peter said and got saved.

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Acts 5:29-32. Peter and the Apostles were again brought before the Jewish rulers, and Peter again presented to them that although the Jews had killed Jesus, God had raised Him from the dead and set him at his right hand as “Prince and Savior” (Acts 5:31). Nothing Peter said referred to a Trinity of co-equal, co-eternal beings in a Godhead. The vocabulary of “God” raising up Jesus and setting him at His right hand fit exactly with what these leaders already believed about the Messiah from the Old Testament, because Peter spoke of two separate beings, a ruler (God) and His “right hand man” (Jesus), not one Being in three persons. This is confirmed by the fact that Jesus is then referred to as the “Prince,” not “God.” As when Peter was before the rulers earlier, there is no record that any of them got saved, but if they had believed Peter, they would have been saved without knowing anything of the doctrine of the Trinity.

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Acts 7:2-53. Stephen made a presentation to the Jewish rulers, and gave a history of Israel. Like Peter had done (Acts 3:22), he quoted Deuteronomy 18:15 that the Messiah would be a prophet from among the people. He asserted that they had killed the “Righteous One,” and then spoke about the vision he had that Jesus was at the right hand of God, something the Jews would have clearly understood to mean that Jesus was now God’s second in command. Stephen was trying to win the Jews to the Christian faith, and he did so without mentioning the Trinity or that Jesus was God. Furthermore, no one in his audience would have ever thought that Jesus was “co-equal” to the Father when Stephen spoke of him being raised by God and now at God’s right hand.

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Acts 8:30-39. Philip the Evangelist was told by an angel to meet, and speak with, a eunuch from Ethiopia, which he did. The Ethiopian was reading from the book of Isaiah, and Philip began there and told him the Good News about Jesus. The eunuch believed and was baptized with no hint that Philip tried to teach him about the Trinity or that Jesus was God. Actually, if you think about it, how could Philip have presented the Trinity? All the Ethiopian had were scriptures from the Old Testament. How would he have reacted if Philip had said, “Well, we know the Hebrew Scriptures present Jesus as a Messiah from the line of David, but actually he was God incarnate, 100% man and 100% God, and you have to believe that to be saved”? Because the Old Testament never said the Messiah would be a God-man, the eunuch would have dismissed Philip as being very misguided in contradicting the Scriptures. What we learn from the record of Philip and the eunuch is that the eunuch got saved without ever knowing about the Trinity.

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Acts 9:3-6, 17 and 20. The Apostle Paul became a Christian when the Lord Jesus himself appeared to him on the road to Damascus. Paul was a trained Rabbi and was expecting the Messiah, but he had resisted the Christian teaching that Jesus was that Messiah. Meeting Jesus proved that Jesus was the Messiah he had been expecting, but there is nothing Jesus, or Ananias who prayed for Saul, said about the Trinity or Jesus being God, so there is no reason to believe Saul had to believe it to be saved. Furthermore, immediately after being saved, Paul went into the Synagogue and taught. Like all new converts, Saul would have been very enthusiastic about his new beliefs, but there is no mention that he mentioned the Trinity. Instead, he taught what he himself had just come to know, that Jesus was “the Son of God.”

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Acts 10:34-43. At the house of Cornelius in Caesarea, Peter taught the Gentiles gathered there that Jesus died, but God raised him from the dead. He taught how God had anointed Jesus with holy spirit (there is no article “the” in the Greek text), made him Lord, and appointed him as Judge. He did not mention the Trinity or say that Jesus was God, but the Gentiles who listened to Peter were saved and filled with the power of holy spirit right in the middle of his teaching.

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Acts 13:16-41. Paul spoke in a synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia, a Roman province in what today is the country of Turkey. He addressed the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles who were gathered there, and taught a very effective salvation message. He gave a short history of the Jews, showing that Jesus, a descendant of David, was the Savior, crucified by the Jews, raised from the dead by God, and that he showed himself alive to many of his disciples who testify about him. He further taught that God now offers forgiveness of sins through him. Many people were saved. There is no mention that Paul taught any of the concepts of the modern Trinity, such as that Jesus was God, or incarnated, or co-equal with the Father.

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Acts 15:1-29. In this record, a dispute arose between Paul and members of the Pharisees who claimed circumcision and observance of the Law was necessary for salvation. A council at Jerusalem was convened specifically for the purpose of discussing what was necessary for the Gentiles to be saved—Gentiles whose belief system had no conception of a Trinity. The decision of the council was to “…not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God” (15:19) and “…not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements” (15:28), which were to abstain from food offered to idols, blood, strangled animals, and sexual immorality. Neither the doctrine of the Trinity nor the divinity of Christ was mentioned as necessary for salvation.

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Acts 16:30 and 31. Paul and Silas were put in jail in Philippi and were miraculously released when an earthquake hit the area. The jailor asked, “…Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” This is a very important question for this study, because if someone must believe in the Trinity to be saved, Paul should have said something about it. Instead, Paul responded, “…Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

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Acts 17:1-4. In this record, Paul arrived in Thessalonica, went into the synagogue, and “…reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. ‘This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ…’” (Acts 17:2-4). Paul taught from the Scriptures, which in a synagogue at that time were only the Old Testament. Thus, Paul could not have mentioned anything about the Trinity, which, as we have seen, was not in the Old Testament. Instead, Paul showed that the Messiah had to suffer, die, and rise from the dead, all easily shown from the Old Testament, and then he made the case that Jesus was the Messiah. The result was that some of the Jews were won to the faith, along with a “large number” of Gentiles, including a number of the prominent women of the city. There was no mention of the Trinity, yet many were saved.

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Acts 17:10-13. Paul and Silas traveled from Thessalonica to Berea, went into the Synagogue, and spoke to the Jews. This is a very important record for our study because it specifically states that the Jews of Berea were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica because they searched their Scriptures, the Old Testament, to see if what Paul and Silas were saying was true. However, we have already seen that the Trinity is not in the Old Testament, so what the people of Berea would have seen was that Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecies, believed he was the Messiah, and gotten saved. They would not have seen that Jesus was one Person in a Triune God.

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Acts 17:22-31. Paul went to Athens and spoke to the Greeks. He taught the resurrection and lordship of Christ and said: “For he [God] has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed….” Paul said God proved His point by raising Christ from the dead. Paul’s short message was effective, because there were a few men who believed. They got saved without ever hearing anything about the Trinity.

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Acts 18:1-5. Paul went to Corinth, and as in many other cities, went into the synagogue to speak about the Lord Jesus. Scripture is clear that Paul was “…testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ” (Acts 18:5), and there is no mention that he taught the Trinity.

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Acts 18:24-28. Apollos was an eloquent man who knew the Scriptures. He also had been given instruction by Aquila and Priscilla, who themselves had been personally taught by Paul. He helped the believers by publicly showing from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ, something he would have shown from the Old Testament. There is no mention of any aspect of the Trinity.

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Acts 22:3-21. Paul spoke to a crowd at the Temple in Jerusalem. His testimony was cut short, but nothing he said even hinted at the doctrine of the Trinity. He spoke of “God” (not “the Father”) and the Righteous One (the Messiah), which would have agreed with what the Jews believed from the Old Testament, that there was one God, and His Messiah, not that the Messiah was somehow also God.

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Acts 25:13-21. Governor Festus was speaking with King Agrippa. This is a very important record for our study, because neither of the two men was saved. Festus was relating to Agrippa what Paul had said to him, and why the Jews were angry at Paul. Festus says that Paul is disputing with the Jews about “…a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.” Festus did not believe what Paul said, but he understood that Paul was saying Jesus had been raised from the dead. This record conforms completely to the other places in Acts that record what Paul taught about Jesus, which was that he died on the Cross, but God raised him from the dead. The evidence from this record is clearly that Paul was not teaching the Trinity, which would have been so different from what Festus had ever heard that he surely would have mentioned it to King Agrippa.

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Acts 26:2-23. Paul told King Agrippa that Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead and proclaimed as a light to “…his own people and to the Gentiles.” Paul was trying to get King Agrippa saved, and pressed him to believe, saying, “King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do” (Acts 26:27). Agrippa realized Paul was trying to get him to be a Christian, and responded, “…Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?” (Acts 26:28). Agrippa could have become a Christian that very day had he believed Paul’s message, yet Paul never mentioned the Trinity, a pre-existent Christ, or that Jesus was God. Anything foreign to the Old Testament such as that would only have confused King Agrippa. Paul’s message of salvation came from “the prophets,” who did not mention the Trinity.

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Acts 28:23. In this short but powerful record that closes the book of Acts, Paul is trying to convince the Jews of Rome “about Jesus” from the Law and the Prophets, which we know do not present the Trinity. Had Paul tried to convince those Jews that Jesus was both man and God using the Old Testament, they would have considered him out of his mind. What we need to pay close attention to is that a person could be saved by believing only that Jesus of Nazareth was the one who fulfilled those things that the Old Testament clearly taught about the Messiah: that he would suffer and die, be raised from the dead and be exalted to second in command under God Himself.

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Paul and the Jews in Acts

There is another way that Acts reveals Paul was not teaching the Trinity: The Jews and even some Jewish Christians who still followed the Mosaic Law constantly harassed the Apostle Paul. In some cases they even followed him from city to city and stirred up the people against him (Acts 17:13). When Paul was in Jerusalem, James told him about all the Jewish Christians who were still zealous for the Law (Acts 21:20), and when Paul was in the Temple, Jews who knew him shouted, “…Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place…” (Acts 21:28). The Jews accosted Paul about all kinds of issues, including differences about the Law, circumcision, and Jesus being the Messiah, but they never once accused him of going against their monotheistic teaching and speaking about a Triune God.

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Anyone who has studied the history of the Jewish nation under Greek and Roman domination knows that the Jews were so fiercely monotheistic that there had been riots and rebellions over the issue of idols, and even the Roman eagle, in Israel. Had Paul been teaching that their God was not one God, but a part of a Trinity, that surely would have aroused their anger and come up as an issue in the book of Acts. After all, it would have been at least as important as circumcision, which comes up in both Acts and the Epistles. The fact that at no time in Acts or the Epistles is there any Jewish opposition to the Trinity is very good evidence that it was not being taught by early Christians and was not essential to salvation.

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Conclusion from Acts

After reading and studying the entire book of Acts and looking for evidence about how a person gets saved, we must conclude that no one had to believe in the Trinity. Furthermore, Acts is the record of the rise and expansion of the Christian Church, so what holds true in Acts should be true for the entire Church Age.

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Romans through Revelation: The Rest of the New Testament

We have now seen that a person did not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved during the Old Testament times, and we have also seen from the Four Gospels and Acts that people got saved without believing in the Trinity or even that Jesus was both God and man. In studying the Epistles we see more of the same; that there is no clear expression of the doctrine of the Trinity from Romans through Revelation, and no evidence anyone had to believe it to be saved. God’s plan of salvation through faith in Christ is presented many times without a single verse saying a person has to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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Scholars freely admit that the Trinity is never presented as a complete doctrine in the New Testament, but rather is built from scattered verses. The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology states, “In the NT there is no explicit statement of the doctrine….” [8] The New Bible Dictionary says: “…it is not a Biblical doctrine in the sense that any formulation of it can be found in the Bible….” [9] The Holman Bible Dictionary is very clear: “The New Testament does not present a systematic presentation of the Trinity. The scattered segments from various writers that appear throughout the New Testament reflect a seemingly accepted understanding that exists without a full-length discussion.” [10] Theologians admit that the New Testament does not state what the Trinity is, i.e., that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three co-equal, co-eternal “Persons,” together making one God, and that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man. Furthermore, there is no clear teaching that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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If a person had to believe in the Trinity to be saved, we would expect to find that clearly stated in the book of Romans. Theologians commonly teach that the theme of Romans is God’s plan of salvation. Some assert that the theme is justification by faith, and that certainly is a major aspect of the Epistle, but the NIV Study Bible well states what is generally thought of as the major theme of Romans: “…Paul’s primary theme in Romans is the basic gospel, God’s plan of salvation, and righteousness for all mankind, Jew and Gentile alike (1:16 and 17).” [11]

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We agree with orthodox theologians that the plan of salvation and righteousness for all mankind is the theme of Romans, but it never presents the doctrine of the Trinity or states that a person has to believe Jesus is God to be saved. Could it be that the one book in the New Testament whose theme is salvation never clearly teaches how to get saved? The answer to that question is an obvious “No.”

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Romans 10:9 is perhaps the clearest presentation of how to get saved in the Epistles:

Romans 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

This instruction does not require one to even know about, much less believe, the Trinity in order to get saved. However, according to orthodox Trinitarian doctrine, simply obeying the above verse will not get a person saved, because to be saved he must believe that Jesus is not just “Lord,” but “God,” 100% man and 100% God, and co-equal and co-eternal with the Father.

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It is safe to say that Paul penned the book of Romans to the people in Rome in the confidence that if they believed and acted on what they read, especially Romans 10:9, they would be saved. It is also safe to say that Paul knew that Rome was filled with Jews who had only the Old Testament and traditions about the Messiah to rely on, and Gentiles who knew nothing about the Jewish Messiah at all. It is also important for us to remember that the first century Jews and Gentiles would have thought about Jesus being “Lord” in terms of their culture. Although modern Trinitarians assert that in the context of Romans, “Lord,” means “God,” no Roman Jew or Gentile in the first century would have believed that. “Lord” was a term for boss, owner, husband, or ruler. The Romans had many “lords,” and they were not “God.” Without clearer instruction on the matter, no Roman would have read “Lord” and thought it meant “God, the creator,” especially since Romans 10:9 also says “God” raised this “Lord” from the dead. A simple and straightforward reading of the verse presents two beings: God and the Lord Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. There is no Trinity, and no mention that the God and the Lord in the verse are both parts of the same Triune God, and that a third “Person” in the Trinity is missing from the verse.

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Could it truly be that a non-Christian could read the book of Romans, believe its message, and not be saved? We say, “No.” The book of Romans clearly shows that Jesus was the Messiah, that he died for the sins of mankind, and that God raised him from the dead, and anyone who believes it is saved. There is just no logical way to read Romans, knowing that it was addressed to the first century people in Rome to get them saved, and say that they would have to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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Perhaps the next best book after Romans to study to see if a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved is Hebrews. The content of Hebrews tells us that it was addressed to Jews (or Jewish Christians) who were intimately familiar with the Old Testament. Every chapter is packed with Old Testament references, and there is much discussion about the Law. Hebrews teaches that obeying the Law will not get people saved, but what will is faith in Jesus, the one who died for our sins and is now our living High Priest, elevated even higher than angels.

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The Jews fiercely held to the Law, which was given by Moses. To persuade them to let it go and move on to something else, God would have to offer something “better,” and that is a major theme in Hebrews. [12] Hebrews teaches that God has done something in Jesus that is “better” than what He had done in the Law. [13] Jesus is specifically said to be better than angels (1:4); he brings a better hope (7:19); guarantees and mediates a better covenant that is founded on better promises (7:22, 8:6); is a better sacrifice than those offered under the Law (9:23); reminds people of better possessions in the future, including a better future country (10:34, 11:16); offers a better resurrection (11:35), brings something better for us than the Old Testament believers had (11:40); and his blood speaks better than the blood of Abel’s sacrifice (12:24). Hebrews also shows (without specifically using the word “better”) that Jesus was a greater High Priest than Aaron (4:14-5:10) and ministers in a better sanctuary (9:11-14).

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Clearly, the book of Hebrews is trying to get people saved or to understand their salvation, and change their attitude toward the Law. It follows the pattern for salvation that we see in Acts and Romans in that it shows that Jesus died for the sins of the people, was raised by God, and is Lord. It never says that believing the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah is not enough to get someone saved, never says the prophecies about the Messiah were telling only a part-truth about God and the Messiah, never presents the doctrine of the Trinity, and certainly never states that a person has to believe in the Trinity to be saved. [14]

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In conclusion, without addressing each epistle in the New Testament, it is enough to say that they set forth the same plan of salvation as Acts, and never teach that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved. If the book of Acts and the New Testament Epistles, the very foundation of the Christian Church, do not say that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved, then Christians should take that as the true doctrine of the Church and not insist that a person has to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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The Creeds of Christendom: The Doctrine Develops

We can see the developing and increasing influence of the doctrine of the Trinity in the increasing complexity of the creeds of Christendom, and the clarity with which they promote the Trinity. A creed is a formal and fundamental statement that clarifies a position, and determines who is “in” and who is “out” of the community defined by the creed. It is a type of statement of beliefs. The creeds are important because their content reveals what issues were being debated at the time the creed was written. For example, if a creed mentions baptism, that was important to the group. If it does not, then likely baptism was a non-issue, either because everyone agreed about it without debate, or because it was not important to the group.

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One of the earliest creeds in Christendom is the well-known Apostles’ Creed. Its date is not known, but we assume from its simple structure and content that it pre-dated the theological debates that raged in the fourth century. The later creeds are much more complex and specifically address the issues of their time. The Apostles’ Creed does not mention the Trinity or any fundamental part of the doctrine of the Trinity, such as Jesus or the Holy Spirit being God. Christians who confess the Apostles’ Creed believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Lord, who died and whom God raised from the dead, much like the teachings we find in the book of Acts. It seems conclusive that the authors of the Apostles’ Creed did not consider belief in the Trinity necessary for salvation.

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The Nicene Creed was developed in the fourth century, likely in 381 by the Council of Constantinople, and by that time much of the Trinitarian doctrine was more clearly developed. It states that the Son was “eternally begotten” and one Being with the Father. It also mentions that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are to be worshipped and glorified. Despite the clear Trinitarian doctrine of the Nicene Creed, it does not state that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved. This makes sense in light of the time period in which it was written. At that time many people in the church believed in the Trinity, but many did not. Although many Christians have heard of Emperor Constantine, who presided over the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. and was a Trinitarian, most people are not aware that his son Constantius, who was the Roman emperor after him (337 to 361), was not a Trinitarian, and actually was known to persecute Trinitarian bishops. The point is that the doctrine of the Trinity was not settled in the Church yet, so it makes sense that a creed published in the late 300s would include the doctrine of the Trinity but not demand that one had to believe it to be saved.

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By the time the Athanasian Creed was written, likely in the late fifth or early sixth century, more than a hundred years after the Nicene Creed, the situation in Christendom had changed. Trinitarians had become firmly in control of the Church, and non-Trinitarians were routinely persecuted, which is why, looking backward through history, there seemed to be so few of them during the Middle Ages. In contrast to the earlier creeds, the Athanasian Creed plainly states that a person had to be a Trinitarian to be saved. It was written in Latin, so English translations of it differ slightly, but it clearly reflects the conflict going on in the Church during the fourth and fifth centuries about the formulation of, and belief in, the Trinity. We know that because the one subject it covers in great detail is the Trinity, and how its members relate to each other. The Athanasian Creed clearly states that a person who does not believe in the Trinity, or the incarnation of Jesus, or that Jesus is both God and man, is not saved, and this man-made document expressed what became the uncompromising teaching of the Orthodox Church.

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The Athanasian Creed, and pronouncements similar to it, proliferated through the Middle Ages and were maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, and then by the Protestant Church. Although there was a great resurgence of non-Trinitarian believers at the time of the Reformation, they were persecuted and even put to death by both Roman Catholics and Protestants. Many of their writings were burned, but thankfully a few survived and are available today, giving us a window into non-Trinitarian thought during the Reformation.

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The constant persecution of non-Trinitarians resulted in their becoming a miniscule minority through the Middle Ages and Reformation, and in the modern church, something that most churchgoers greatly misinterpret. Most people believe there are so few non-Trinitarian believers because their doctrinal position is weak, but that is drawing the wrong conclusion. The truth is that most who openly shared their faith were killed or persecuted, or were told the Trinity was a mystery they could not understand, and so the vast majority of them learned to be quiet about what they believed. The persecution of non-Trinitarians continues today, and the vast majority of them keep their beliefs to themselves so they will not be ejected from Christian meetings, called “unsaved” (or worse), and rejected by other Christians they have befriended.

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The Modern Church

The Sinner’s Prayer

Like the Medieval Church doctrine, the modern Orthodox Church doctrine is that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved, but on a practical level there is some serious double-mindedness going on in the Church. This is true, first when it comes to evangelism and winning new converts, and second, in assuring that long-time Christians believe in the Trinity and are actually saved.

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When it comes to evangelism, Trinitarian evangelists and pastors teach the salvation message in a simple way, just as was done in Acts, and believe their teaching saves people. For example, Trinitarians all over the world say they get people saved by having them pray what is referred to as “the sinner’s prayer.” Although it varies somewhat from church to church, it goes something like this:

“Heavenly Father: I come to you in prayer asking for the forgiveness of my sins. I confess with my mouth and believe with my heart that Jesus is your Son, and that he died on the Cross at Calvary that I might be forgiven and have Eternal Life in the Kingdom of Heaven. Father, I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you right now to come in to my life and be my personal Lord and Savior. I repent of my sins and will Worship you all the day’s of my Life. Because your word is truth, I confess with my mouth that I am Born Again and Cleansed by the Blood of Jesus! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” [15]

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This prayer clearly shows the double-mindedness of Trinitarians because thousands of them use it to get people saved in their churches, while at the same time their doctrine says it will not get someone saved because it does not teach the Trinity. We non-Trinitarians say that based on the teaching of the New Testament, anyone who prayed and believed the above prayer is saved. We say that this practice of the Trinitarians is correct, and it is their doctrine that is in error.

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The second evidence for double-mindedness among Trinitarians concerns long-time members of the Church who do not believe the Trinity because they either do not know what it is, or they do not understand it and thus do not really “believe it,” they just more or less ignore the whole doctrinal position. Spirit & Truth Fellowship International is openly non-Trinitarian, and we have been in many discussions and debates with Trinitarians since our inception in 1989. Our experience is that a significant percentage of those who attend Trinitarian churches openly confess that they do not know what the Trinity is, or when questioned, cannot define it accurately. In our experience, many churchgoers think the Trinity is simply that there are three beings, the Father God, the Son, and a being called “the Holy Spirit.”

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Many of the supposed Trinitarians we have encountered do not even believe that Jesus is God, much less that he is one of three Persons in the Trinity, all of whom are co-equal and co-eternal and who together make up the One God of Christian orthodoxy. If orthodox Trinitarian doctrine is correct, imagine the sad plight of these churchgoers on the Day of Judgment. They would stand before the Judgment Seat, expecting to live forever with Jesus because they believe God raised him from the dead and have confessed him as Lord. But instead of being granted everlasting life, the Righteous Judge condemns them to everlasting death, saying they were not really saved because they did not believe in the Trinity.

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We assert that if the pastors of local churches really believed that a person had to believe in the Trinity to have everlasting life, they would teach it in great detail; regularly have sermons, classes and seminars on it; make sure that all the elders and deacons were well versed about it; and sit with new converts and any new members of their church to confirm that the person was actually saved. The actions of Trinitarian churches around the globe are speaking louder than their manual of doctrine. It seems clear that, in reality, leaders in the modern church do not really think a person has to believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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We of Spirit & Truth Fellowship International have encountered a number of people in the Church today, including pastors, who believe that the Trinity is true but admit that it is not clearly presented in the Bible, and thus say that one need not believe it to be saved. These Trinitarian Christians have seen that there is no command to believe in the Trinity, and admit non-Trinitarian believers into their churches and fellowships as brothers and sisters in Christ.

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The Manifestations (or “Gifts”) of the Spirit and Salvation

The modern Church is waking up to the spiritual power Christians have, and many in different denominations are manifesting the power of God by speaking in tongues, prophecy, words [messages] of knowledge and wisdom, and healing. More and more Christians are seeing that the verse, “I would like every one of you to speak in tongues…” (1 Cor. 14:5), is for all Christians. Although speaking in tongues used to be considered something done only by Pentecostals and Charismatics, now people from very diverse denominations and groups are speaking in tongues, even in the Roman Catholic Church (these are referred to as “Charismatic Catholics”).

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It is widely admitted that the power to speak in tongues comes from God to those who are saved. Speaking in tongues, then, should be one of the great proofs of who is, and who is not saved, and if non-Trinitarians are not saved, they should not be able to speak in tongues. But many non-Trinitarian groups have members who do speak in tongues. In fact, Trinitarian and non-Trinitarian groups are similar when it comes to speaking in tongues, because some do and some do not. However, if speaking in tongues is an evidence of the presence of the spirit, and thus salvation, which we assert that it is, the fact that people who have accepted Jesus as their Lord, but who are non-Trinitarians speak in tongues is very solid evidence they are saved.

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Conclusion

Most Christians assert that the Bible teaches the way of salvation. However, if orthodox Trinitarian doctrine is correct, the Bible does not clearly teach how to be saved because it never clearly teaches the Trinity. Could it be that we have to teach a “more complete” message to get people saved than did Jesus, Peter, or Paul? Could it really be the case that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved, even though there is not one clear presentation of it in the entire New Testament? Certainly not. We assert that the message of Peter, Paul, and others was enough to get their audiences saved and there is no evidence that God, after the book of Acts, somehow changed the rules so that now a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved.

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The book of Acts makes it clear that when the early Christians presented Jesus Christ to the unsaved, they taught that he was a “man approved of God” who was crucified but whom God raised from the dead and who now is our Lord. This simple message has been getting people saved for some 2000 years now, and there is no evidence in Scripture or in the practices of churches around the world that one has to believe in the Trinity to be saved. We reject the decision made by men in the Church, somewhere around 500 A.D., that a person must believe in the Trinity to be saved, even though that decision and belief has been supported by Church tradition for centuries now. It is the Word of God, not tradition, that lives and abides forever.

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Like the great reformers of the Protestant Reformation, who demanded to be convinced from Scripture that a doctrine is true, we demand that Trinitarians show us from Scripture that a person needs to believe in the Trinity to be saved. If they cannot do so, we respectfully submit that they retract this doctrine. Christians will never be able to achieve what our God wishes, that “…we all reach unity in the faith…” (Eph. 4:13), until Trinitarians stop demanding that to be considered Christian a person must believe something that cannot be proven from the Bible. It would be a wonderful thing if Trinitarians would draw their doctrine as well as their practice from the Word of God and welcome non-Trinitarian Christians as part of the family of God.

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Epilogue

In the above study we have shown from Scripture that a person does not have to believe in the Trinity to be saved. However, there is another point we feel compelled to make. If the Old Testament does not teach the Trinity, if Jesus never taught it, if no one in the book of Acts ever taught it, and if the Epistles do not clearly set it forth, can it really be that the Trinity is right doctrine? Can it be that the very foundation of the Christian faith is a doctrine that is never once set forth clearly in Scripture, but is gathered from isolated texts? God very clearly sets forth the foundational tenets of the Christian faith, including salvation, redemption, righteousness, the character of God (that He is love, light, merciful, etc.), the fallen nature of man and the need for a Savior, and the work of the Messiah. Which makes more sense, that God is clear about the foundational tenets of the Christian faith except the most important one, the Trinity, which must be gathered from isolated texts, or that the Trinity is actually a man-made doctrine, built from verses that can each be explained in a non-Trinitarian way? To us, the answer to that question is clear.

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Going strictly by the evidence in Scripture, the correct biblical doctrine is the one that can be clearly seen in the Old Testament and was confirmed again and again in the New Testament. There is one God. He is spirit, so His invisible power and nature are known as the holy spirit (or the Holy Spirit). God had a Son, the Messiah, who we know as the Lord Jesus Christ, who was of the lineage of Abraham and David, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died for our sins, was raised from the dead, and ascended to the right hand of God. All of this was taught in the Old Testament and confirmed many times in the New Testament without once being corrected to include the idea of a Triune God. There is no reason not to believe that simple message is the correct biblical doctrine.

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[For further study, please read our article titled What About John 1:1?, and our explanation of verses commonly used to try to support the Trinity.]

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• Rice flour – 1 measure
• Plain flour(Maida)– 1 measure
• Rava (Semolina) – 2 measure
• Curd or Butter milk – 1 measure
• Ginger Paste – 1 tsp
• Jeera – 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds(sasve) – 1/2 tsp
• Cooking Oil - 1/2 tsp per dosa
• Green Chillies – 3 (chopped finely)
• Salt to taste
• 2 and 1/2 cups of water
• Coriander leaves - 1 cup (chopped)
• Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup

Preparation -

1) Mix rice flour, plain flour, rava, salt, ginger paste with curd.  Make it into smooth paste .

2) Now, dilute it by adding water.  Add coconut, jeera, mustard seeds, coriander leaves and mix it again.  The batter is now ready.

3) With a help of a serving spoon, spread the batter on a pre-heated pan.  Grease the corners of the dosa with oil.  Lid the pan and cook the dosa in medium flame.  Remove it when it looks cooked. (Approximately 1 minute per dosa)

Serve it with curry or chutney!

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Last night, I was pondering over what to make for breakfast this morning. All the regular breakfast dishes had been prepared during the week, and I wanted something simple and easy to make…the weekend mood having set in, so had the laziness

I suddenly remembered Dad’s Moong Dal Dosa formula. He has two ways to prepare the batter, one is to soak the dal overnight and grind in the morning, and the other is an instant formula. Since I had time, I decided to soak the dal overnight. These Moong Dal dosas are really healthy, easy to make and more over, love that distinct taste. When I was a small kid, I used to call this “Vegetarian Omlette”!! Do try it out… I’m sure you will agree with me that it does taste like omelettes

This is an Andhra specialty and they usually serve it along with Upma. They call it Pesarittu-Upma.

Ingredients:

• Split, Yellow Moong dal – 2 measures
• Urad Dal – 1/2 measure (soak along with moong dal)
• Rice – 1 measure
• Methi/Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp (soak along with rice)
• Green Chillies – 4 nos (alter this to suit your taste)
• Ginger – 1″ piece
• Coriander/Cilantro – a fistful (finely chopped)
• Onions (optional) – finely chopped
• Asafoetida – a pinch
• Salt – to taste

***For the Instant Pesarittu better, soak only the moong dal and urad dal for 1 hour and grind to a smooth paste along with ginger, green chillies and coriander. Add salt and asafoetida, stir well. You could add finely chopped onions to the batter. Make the dosas as you normally would. Quick fix breakfast! ***

Method:

• Grind the soaked rice + methi seeds + ginger + green chillies + half of the coriander to a smooth paste. Pour into a deep vessel. Keep aside.
• Grind the soaked moong dal + urad dal mixture to a smooth paste. Add to the rice mixture.
• Add salt, asafoetida, remaining half of the finely chopped coriander. If you are adding onions, do so at this step. Stir well.
• You could allow the batter to rest for 1/2 hour, or choose to make the dosas immediately.
• Using a deep ladle, pour the batter onto a tawa/griddle and cook both sides on a medium flame.
• Your vegetarian omlettes are ready! Serve hot with tomato ketchup/hot and sweet chilli sauce

Jumat, 13 November 2009 | 18:25

Beberapa tahun yang lalu, seorang ulama bercerita tentang pengalamannya pada waktu ibadah haji. Ia mendapat perlakuan buruk dari jemaah lain di sana. Ia menyadari bahwa itu sebagai balasan atas perlakuan buruknya yang pernah ia lakukan kepada orang lain .

Kisahnya berawal ketika ia bergegas pulang seusai shalat subuh berjamaah di masjid agung. Ia terburu-buru pulang karena ingin ke toilet yang jarak rumahnya tidak begitu jauh. Di perjalanan pulang, ia tak tahan lagi , ia membuang angin dari belakang. Ternyata didekatnya ada si babah . Nama ini merupakan sebutan untuk seorang lelaki keturunan Tionghoa yang sudah ada umur. Ia tidak peduli, terus saja berjalan ke rumahnya.

Ketika beribadah haji, ternyata ia mengalami hal serupa. Di dekatnya ada seorang berkulit hitam mengeluarkan angin yang sangat kuat bau busuknya. Ia ingat akan dosanya dulu, dan sekarang mendapat balasannya.
Cerita semacam ini banyak diungkapkan oleh para jemaah haji yang baru pulang dari Tanah Suci. Hal ini cukup memberikan dampak positif bagi orang-orang yang akan berangkat  pergi beribadah haji. Mereka berusaha untuk tidak melakukan hal-hal yang tidak baik terhadap orang lain. Tapi ada juga orang yang pernah banyak melakukan perbuatan buruk merasa takut untuk menunaikan ibadah haji. Ia tunda lagi, tunda lagi, untuk berangkat ke Tanah Suci.

Benarkah perbuatan buruk itu akan dibalas di Tanah Suci ? Seseorang pernah menanyakan hal ini melalui harian Kompas dan dijawab oleh HM Cholil Nafis, MA , Wakil Ketua Lembaga Bahtsul Masail Pengurus Besar Nahdlatul Ulama.
Pertanyaannya adalah sebagai berikut :

Apakah benar kejelekan sikap kita di dunia akan diperlihatkan oleh Allah di tanah suci Mekkah ketika kita melaksanakan ibadah haji?

Kemudian dijawab :

Allah SWT berjanji akan menghitung dan akan membalas amal-amal kita kelak di hari kemudian ( yaum al hisab ) sehingga jelas tak ada penghitungan dan balasan amal di dunia. Jika Allah SWT memberi kemudahan atau kesukaran dalam pelaksanaan ibadah haji, itu bagian dari ujian terhadap kesabaran jemaah. Allah SWT menguji kita, antara lain, dengan panjang usia, rasa cemas, kurang harta, dan kurang sehat. Ujian itu semua akan menjadi ukuran untuk membalas orang yang bersabar menerima cobaan dari Allah SWT.

Demikian jawaban HM Cholil Nafis, MA. melalui harian Kompas, Kamis, 20 November 2008.

Mungkin Anda pernah mengalami hal yang seperti ini, bagaimana pendapat Anda ?

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Di antara peperangan yang dilancarkan oleh musuh-musuh Islam pada zaman ini adalah mode pakaian. Musuh-musuh Islam itu menciptakan bermacam-macam mode pakaian, lalu dipasarkan di tengah-tengah kaum muslimin.

Ironisnya, pakaian-pakaian tersebut tidak menutup aurat karena amat pendek, tipis dan ketat. Bahkan sebagian besar tidak dibenarkan dipakai oleh wanita, meski di antara sesama mereka atau di depan mahramnya sendiri.

Dalam hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Abu Hurairah radhiallahu’anhu, Rasulullah Shallallahu’alaihi wassalam mengabarkan bakal munculnya pakaian seperti ini di akhir zaman, beliau Shallallahu’alaihi wassalam bersabda:

“Dua (jenis manusia) dari ahli neraka yang aku belum melihatnya sekarang yaitu; Kaum yang membawa cemeti-cemeti seperti ekor sapi, mereka memukul manusia dengannya, dan wanita-wanita yang berpakaian tetapi telanjang, berjalan dengan menggoyang-goyang pundaknya dan berlenggak lenggok, kepala mereka seperti punuk onta yang condong. Mereka tidak akan masuk surga bahkan tidak akan mendapat wanginya, dan sungguh wangi surga telah tercium dari jarak perjalanan sekian dan sekian”.  (Hadits riwayat Muslim; 3/1680)

Termasuk dalam kategori ini adalah pakaian sebagian wanita yang memiliki belah panjang dari bawah, atau yang ada lubang di beberapa bagiannya, sehingga ketika duduk tampak auratnya.

Di samping itu, yang mereka lakukan juga termasuk yang menyerupai orang-orang kafir, mengikuti mode serta busana bejat yang mereka bikin. Kepada Allah Azza Wa Jalla kita memohan keselamatan.

Di antara yang juga berbahaya adalah adanya berbagai gambar buruk di pakaian; seperti gambar penyanyi, kelompok-kelompok musik, botol dan cawan arak, juga gambar-gambar makhluk yang bernyawa, salib, atau lambang-lambang club-club dan organisasi-organisasi non Islam, juga slogan-slogan kotor yang tidak lagi memperhitungkan kehormatan dan kebersihan diri, yang biasanya banyak ditulis dalam bahasa asing.

Pembagian dosa-dosa besar menurut manhaj Ahlus Sunnah ada dua macam, yaitu:

1. Dosa-dosa besar yang mengkafirkan pelakunya.
   Dosa-dosa seperti ini dinamakan mukaffirah atau pembatal Islam (iman). Yaitu dosa-dosa besar yang ditunjukkan oleh dalil  syar`i bahwa dosa tersebut adalah kufur dan tidak ada qarīnah (petunjuk lain) yang memalingkan maknanya ke arti lain selain kufur akbar.
2. Dosa-dosa besar yang tidak mengkafirkan pelakunya.
   Yaitu dosa-dosa besar yang tidak ada dalil syar`i yang mengkafirkan pelakunya. Dalam pandangan al-Wa’īdiyyah[1] (Khawarij dan lainnya), semua dosa besar adalah dosa yang mengkafirkan. Manhaj ini jelas bathil, sebagaimana telah dipaparkan pada pasal lain di buku ini.

Dalam hal ini Murji’ah terbagi menjadi tiga golongan, yaitu:

1. Golongan pertama; mengkafirkan pelaku mukaffirah, karena dikerjakannya mukaffirah menunjukkan tidak adanya tashdīq (pembenaran) dalam hati. Hal ini karena mereka beranggapan bahwa iman hanyalah tashdīq dalam hati. Sebaliknya, Ahlus Sunnah mengkafirkan pelaku mukaffirah adalah karena perbuatan mukaffirah itu sendiri adalah suatu kekufuran, tanpa harus menyandarkan hukum itu dengan apa yang ada di hati.
2. Golongan ekstrim; menyatakan bahwa pelaku mukaffirah adalah kafir ketika di dunia, walaupun mungkin saja hatinya tetap beriman, status-nya di akhirat adalah tetap sebagai orang yang beriman, dan di dunia kepadanya diberlakukan hukum kufur.
3. Golongan terekstrim; menyatakan bahwa pelaku mukaffirah baik di dunia maupun di akhirat tidaklah kafir, selama di hatinya ada tashdiq.

Baik pemahaman al-Wa’īdiyyah maupun Murji’ah dalam masalah ini, kedua-duanya merupakan suatu kesesatan yang nyata.

Dalam menentukan sebuah dosa besar, mukaffirah ataukah bukan, maka Ahlus Sunnah menempuh metode berikut:

Setiap amal (dosa besar) yang padanya terdapat dalil syar`i yang menunjukkan amal tersebut sebagai suatu kekufuran, maka hukum asalnya bahwa amal tersebut adalah mukaffirah, mengeluarkan dari Islam. Demikian pula ketika terdapat nash-nash atau dalil-dalil yang menunjukkan hilangnya iman pada seorang pelaku dosa besar. Hukum kufur atau syirik pada amal tersebut tidak bisa dita’wilkan (menjadi dosa kecil) kecuali ada qarīnah (dalil lain) yang menunjukkan bahwa amal tersebut tidak mengeluarkan pelakunya dari Islam. Kalau ada yang demikian, maka hukum amal tersebut (yang kurang dari kufur atau syirik) ditentukan berdasarkan kandungan seluruh dalil yang terdapat dalam masalah tersebut.

Contohnya perbuatan zina, dalil-dalil yang ada menunjukkan:

• Bahwa pezina kehilangan imannya.
• Pezina dihukum cambuk (jadi masih berstatus sebagai muslim, karena apabila murtad, hukumnya adalah dibunuh).
• Masuknya semua muwahhid (orang yang bertauhid) ke dalam syurga, termasuk pezina dan pencuri.
• Allah –Subhānahu wa Ta’ālā– mengampuni semua dosa selain syirik, kepada orang-orang yang dikehendaki-Nya.
• Adanya orang-orang beriman yang masuk neraka namun pada akhirnya akan dikeluarkan, untuk masuk syurga.

Maka hukum pezina adalah “tetap sebagai orang beriman dengan iman yang kurang”. Apabila ketika di akhirat Allah –Subhānahu wa Ta’ālā– mengampuninya, maka dia akan langsung masuk syurga. Jika tidak, maka dia pun tetap akan masuk syurga, walaupun sebelumnya masuk ke dalam neraka terlebih dahulu[2].

Sedangkan Khawarij, maka mereka hanya memilih dalil-dalil yang menentukan kufurnya orang tersebut (dalil-dalil ancaman), dan Murji’ah, maka mereka hanya akan memilih dalil-dalil yang menunjukkan selamatnya orang tersebut dari semua hukuman (dalil-dalil janji gembira).

[2] Namun jangan sekali-kali menganggap ringan masuk neraka, walaupun hanya sehari –Na’ūdzu billah– sangatlah pediah dan mengerikan sekali!

Sumber:

“Iman Menurut Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah” yang disusun oleh Lajnah Ilmiah Hasmi

Dikopas abis dari selamat pagi puisi

Marilah kita duduk bersama
disini
di bawah lengkung hati kita
agar
aku bisa menangis di lembut sapuan
biru ungu cintaMu
agar
aku bisa bermanja di kekar lengan
perkasaMu
agar
aku bisa terlelap di sejuk teduh
naungan asmaraMu.

Tetapi aku terjaga
inilah raga kerontang
seonggok dosa
setumpuk nista
: akankah meng arang di nerakaMu?

Di bentangan sayap malam
kubenamkan dosa ini
dalam istighfar
dalam air mata.

Ten cuidado con lo que deseas… que puede que se te convierta en realidad.

A principios de año decreté que quería que mi título profesional oficial fuera – JET-SETTER PROFESIONAL.  Porque viajar es una de mis más profundas pasiones…  pues este pasado octubre tuve la oportunidad de viajar a la India por segunda vez.  En los pasados 2 meses, este es mi 4to viaje corrido.  Mi amiguita Annie Mariel me pidió que la acompañara a Delhi a hacer unas diligencias y yo por supuesto acepté…  ¿cómo iba a decirle que no a esa invitación?!?

Mi primer viaje a la India fue exactamente 5 años atrás, pero tuvo un corte mucho más espiritual – visitando una serie de templos hindús en el Himalaya – pero este viaje es mucho más turístico que el anterior.  Visitamos Delhi, Varanasi y Agra, para ver el Taj Mahal.

Los desayunos son muy importantes para mí… especialmente al viajar.  No sé por qué, pero se me abre el apetito de una manera espectacular cuando viajo.  En Delhi, aunque en realidad en la India en general, hay mucho smog y polvorín así que me aseguraba de comer suficiente frutas y yogurt todas las mañanas para asegurarme de mantener mi sistema inmunológico en su punto.  Aquí algunos ejemplos de los desayunos que disfrutamos en algunos de nuestros hoteles:

El primero fue en Delhi – pedazos de papaya, yogurt plain, avena u otros tipos de cremas hechas con leche, como me gustan.  Siempre complementaba con algún jugo natural (no de pote) y uno muy popular todas las mañanas era jugo de sandía.  Nos lo preparaban en el momento… súper dulce y delicioso.

Este desayuno fue en Agra – papaya nuevamente pero esta vez con semillas de granada, yogurt plain, hojuelas de maíz o de trigo… complementado por jugo de pina y lassi salado.  Prefiero el lassi dulce, pero hablaremos del lassi específicamente en un artículo futuro. 

Pero estos son desayunos típicos… dirán ustedes.  Pero esto era sólo el aperitivo de mi desayuno todas las mañanas.  Después de comerme esto, venia la versión india de mi desayuno.  Y aunque nos quedamos en el norte de la India durante nuestro viaje, tuvimos la oportunidad de probar delicias de desayuno típicas del norte y del sur de la India por igual.

NORTE DE LA INDIA

Cuando estábamos en Delhi, me intrigó ver a mi vecino de mesa pedir un pan inflado para el desayuno.  Se llama chole bhature y es un pan de masa súper finita frito hecho con harina maida (harina de trigo súper fina) o con harina de arroz.  Probé de las dos y yo no noté en realidad la diferencia.  Y este pan te lo comes con unos garbanzos al curry y un chutney de mangó que es dulce y picante a la misma vez.  El yogurt en mi plato de desayuno regular me ayudaba a calmar el pique en mi boca.

Los meseros del restaurante estaban tan impresionados con que estas viajeras estuvieran interesadas en lo que los locales desayunan, que todas las mañanas nos traían un servicio de chole bhature sin tener que pedirlo. 

No es lo que regularmente se me antoja comer en el desayuno, pero interesante suficiente como para disfrutarlo durante nuestro viaje en la India…  y yo soy una fanática de obtener la experiencia completa al viajar.

SUR DE LA INDIA

No he tenido la oportunidad de viajar nunca por el sur de la India, pero al llegar a nuestro fabuloso hotel en Agra después de una experiencia que dejó mucho qué desear en un tren overnight, estábamos hambrientas por un buen desayuno completo.  Y ahí conocimos a las Dosas…

Las dosas son el típico desayuno del sur de la India… unas crepas finititas hechas de harina de arroz y rellenas con una mezcla de papas al curry.  Te las hacen al momento y las comes con un chutney de coco o de tomate.  Y ustedes ya saben que soy una fanática de las crepas…

El relleno de papas es picante, pero más picante estaban los chutneys para acompañarlo.  Así que esta dosa me la comí solita… el lassi salado en la mesa me ayudó a calmar el picante cuando era necesario.  Nos gustaron tanto que las pedíamos en el buffet todas las mañanas que nos quedamos en Agra.

Espero que esto les entusiasme a probar algunas de estas delicias indias en su próximo viaje a la India o cuando visiten su restaurante indio favorito en tu propia ciudad.  Probar las delicias típicas de un país es gran parte de conocer la cultura a cabalidad al viajar.  Es lo que separa a los viajeros de los turistas… no crees?   Y yo quisiera considerarme viajera 100%.

Be careful what you wish for… because you might actually get it.

I decided at the beginning of the year that I wanted my official job description to read – PROFESSIONAL JET-SETTER. Because travel is one of my true, deep passions… well, this last October I got to visit India for the second time.  In the last 2 months, this is my 4^th trip.  My friend Annie Mariel asked me to accompany her run some errands in Delhi and I immediately said yes.  How could I really say NO to that invitation?!?!?!

My first trip, exactly 5 years ago, had a spiritual purpose – visiting various religious temples in the Himalayas – but this one was much touristy.  We visited Delhi, Varanasi and Agra, to see the Taj Mahal. 

Breakfasts are really important to me… especially when traveling.  I do not know why, but my appetite is HUGE during breakfast when I travel.  Delhi has a lot of smog and is much dustier than what we’re accustomed on our side of the world.  So I made it a point to always eat lots of fruit and yogurt to maintain my body’s defenses.  Here are a few examples of typical breakfasts I had at our hotels:

The first was in Delhi – papaya pieces, plain yogurt, porridge or oatmeal made with milk.   Just the way I like it.  I always complemented breakfast with some freshly squeezed juice and apparently something very popular is watermelon juice.  I found watermelon juice in Delhi and in Varanasi.  They would even prepare it to order… super sweet and delicious.

This second was in Agra – papaya pieces with pomegranate seeds, plain yogurt, corn or wheat flakes.  Here breakfast was complimented by salted lassi and pineapple juice.  I much more prefer sweet lassi, but we’ll talk about that a little later on in a future post…

But these are very typical breakfasts… you might be thinking.   But this was not all I ate each morning… this was just the starter complimented also by one of two Indian versions of breakfast too.  Indians do not limit their curry and savory food intake from lunch on.  They have their savory and spicy foods right after they open their eyes.  Even though we stayed in Northern India, we got to taste the breakfast preferences of both North and South India.

NORTH INDIA

When we were in Delhi, I was intrigued by what my table neighbor was eating.  I saw this puffed up bread and I immediately was curious.  It is called chole bhature and it is fried bread made from either maida flour (very-fine wheat flour) or rice flour.  I had them both and you can barely notice a difference.  You eat this fried, puffy bread with curried chickpeas and spicy/sweet mango chutney.  The yogurt on my regular breakfast plate helped to cool my mouth because of the spices for the chickpeas and chutney. 

Our servers at the hotel restaurant were so impressed with our interest in their local food, after I ordered just out of curiosity, that they would bring a service of this chole bhature without us having to order it.

Not what I normally crave for breakfast, but certainly interesting enough to enjoy it while in India…  and I am all to have the most out of my travel experiences.

SOUTH INDIA

After an overnight train experience that left a lot to be desired, we arrived in Agra at 9:30AM and we were HUNGRY for breakfast.  The buffet spread was exactly what we needed.  That’s where we learned about Dosas.

Dosas are the typical South India version of breakfast… it’s a rice flour crepe filled with a curried-potato mixture.  They’re made to order and you enjoy them with a coconut or tomato chutneys.  And you know me, I am a crepe fanatic.

The potato mixture is spicy, but the chutneys were way spicier for my taste.  So after tasting them initially, I kept on eating without the accompaniments.  Salted lassi helped ease the spice level on the tongue.  They were so good, we had dosas every morning we had breakfast in Agra.

I hope this encourages you to try out these Indian favorites the next time you travel to India or visit an Indian restaurant in your neighborhood.  Tasting the local flavors is an integral part of getting to know a new country/culture.  It’s what separates the travelers from the tourists… don’t you think?

TIPS FOR LUNCH BOX

TRY THESE ITEMS

CHEESE DOSA

MINI IDLY

PESERAT (GREEN GRAM) DOSA

KADALA PARUPU IDLY

VEGITABLE DOSA

GOTHUMAI DOSA

EGG SANSWISH

FILLING

TRY TO FILL YOUR KIDS TIFFEN BOX BY THESE ITEMS

A BANANA

A SMALL PIECE OF COCONUT.

FEW  BANANA CHIPS.

A BOTTLE OF APPLE JUICE

GRAPES

DIFFERENT BISCUITS SHAPES

CARROT WITH DIFFERENT SHAPES

ANYTHING CUT IN CUBES, DIMENDS (IDLY, SALADS…..)

THERMIST CONTAINTAINER (FOR SOUPS)

CRISPY ITEMS (MURUKKU, ELLADAI …..)

EGG BOATS

JELLY

POTATO CHIPS

KURKURE, LAYS

 COLOUR IDLY (IDLY BATTER ADDED WITH CARROT, MINT, CORIANDER, CASHEW NUTS, and DAL…………….)

RAINBOW CHAPATTI

Ingredients

Spinach – 1/2 cup (tightly packed)

Beetroot – 1/2

Carrot – 1/2

Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp

Ginger/garlic paste – 1 tsp

Chapathi flour – 3 cups

Butter

Whipped cream – Optional

Method :

Peel and finely chop the beets and carrots. Cook the spinach, beets and carrots separately with a pinch of chilli powder, salt and little water. I micro waved each of them for 3 – 5 min. When they are completely cooked blend each of them separately to a paste. To one cup of chapathi flour, add the spinach paste, a little bit of ginger/garlic paste and knead to a soft dough. Add little water if required. Repeat this step with beats and carrots too. You will now have 3 different dough as shown in the picture.

CHAPPATI ROLLS

Ingredients:

Leftover chapattis

1/2 tin baked beans

1/4 cup cheese

4 tbsp sauce

For Filling:

1 carrot

5 French beans

1/4 cup boiled peas

1 capsicum

1 large floret of cauliflower

1/2 cup cabbage shredded

3 green chillies

1/4 tsp. garlic paste (or 5 flakes crushed)

1/4 tsp. ginger paste (or 1/2″ piece grated)

1/2 tsp. lemon juice

1/2 tsp. soya sauce

1/2 tsp. tomato ketchup

Salt to taste

1 tbsp. oil

Method

Clean and chop carrot, capsicum, cauliflower, French beans, into thin 2″ long slivers or sticks.

Chop green chillies also into small pieces.

Heat oil in a non-stick pan.

Add green chillies, garlic, ginger, stir.

Add all other vegetables, stir-fry on high till veggies are tender.

Add soya, tomato sauces, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and stir.

Divide filling into 6 portions.

Take on chapatti, put filling in half portion.

Spread over half area evenly.

Sprinkle some cheese.

Fold empty half portion over.

A half round with stuffing inside should result. 

Apply a little water to the inner edges, press together to seal.

Arrange them in a shallow ovenproof dish

Pour a half tin of baked beans in tomato over them, from tin.

Sprinkle cheese, sauce

Bake in preheated oven (200oC) for 10 minutes.

Serve as a casserole dish.

PEPPER AND CHEESE ROLLS

 Ingredients:

2 slices – Bread

1 cup – Grated Cheese

1 tsp – White Pepper Powder

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Method

Immerse the bread slices in water.

Squeeze the water out and crumble the bread.

Mix the other ingredients and shape it into thin long rolls.

Deep fry in oil.

Serve hot with tomato sauce.

PANEER  KEBAB

Ingredients:

4 – paneer round, cut

4 tsp – mint chutney

50 g – hung curd

15 g – chop coriander

10 g – chop mint

10 ml – saffron water

50 ml – cream

3 g – jeera powder

2 g – cardamom powder

Salt to taste

Pepper to taste

Method

Slit the paneer rounds and stuff with mint chutney

In a mixing bowl put the hung curd and cream and mix well

Now slowly add into it all the ingredients one by one.

Finally check the seasoning and apply the mixture on all the sides of paneer

When done pour all the balance mixture on paneer.

Allow it to rest for few hours

Finally roast the panner in the clay Tandoor

Serve Hot.

PANEER BREAD

Ingredients:

6 – bread slices
3 tbsp – spicy mint chutney/sauce
3 tbsp – sweet tamarind chutney/sauce
4 to 6 – 5mm thick paneer slices
2 tbsp – butter
1 cup – gram-flour
1/2 cup – beaten curd/yoghurt
1.5 tbsp – chaat masala
1/4 tsp – ajwain
1/4 tsp – red chili pwd
1/4 tsp – turmeric pwd
1/ tsp – cumin pwd
1 tsp – sugar
water to make the batter
salt to taste
oil to deep fry

Method

Marinade paneer slices in butter & chaat masala

Set aside for 10-15 mins.

Make a smooth batter (ribbon – consistency) of the flour, sugar, salt, yogurt, turmeric, red chili pwd, cumin pwd, ajwain with some water.

Apply tamarind sauce to 3 slices & mint sauce to the other 3.

Place paneer slices between a slice of tamarind sauce & 1 with mint sauce.

Repeat with the remaining bread & paneer.

Cut into half or diagonally to triangles. Wet your hands

Press each sandwich between moist palms to ensure slices stick together & don’t slip apart.

Heat oil in a deep-frying vessel (kadai).

Insert triangles delicately into the batter, coat evenly & safely immerse into the hot oil.

Turn over; when it is golden-brown beneath

Fry to get an even colour all-round.

Leave to drain on paper towel & serve with chutneys, ketchup of any sauce of your choice.

SAUSAGE ROLLS

 Ingredients:

4 – Small size sausages

90 g – flour

40 ml – milk

1 1/2 tsp – baking powder

1 tbsp – butter

a pinch – salt

1 tbsp – mustard paste or chilli sauce

Method

Mix the flour, salt and baking powder. Rub the butter into the dry ingredients and stir in the milk.

Knead into smooth dough. Roll the dough out into a rectangle 20×15cm size.

Spread mustard paste or chilli sauce evenly over the dough. Cut into 4 strips.

Roll the sausages up in the dough and place them on the well greased heat proof plate.

Cook on crisp mode for 5-6 minutes or until they are light golden brown.

Serve hot with French fries.

ZUCCHINI BREAD

 Ingredients:

•3 large eggs

•1/2 cup vegetable oil

•1/2 cup plain yogurt

•1-3/4 cups granulated sugar

•1/2 cup orange juice concentrate

•1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

•2 cups shredded zucchini

•3 cups all-purpose flour

•1 tsp. baking powder

•1 tsp. baking soda

•1 tsp. kosher salt

•2 tsp. ground cinnamon

•1 tsp. ground nutmeg

•1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Method :

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease 2 loaf pans.

2. Beat eggs, oil, yogurt, sugar and orange juice concentrate in a large mixing bowl. Stir in vanilla and shredded zucchini.

3. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. 

4. Stir into the wet ingredients, just until incorporated. Do not overmix. Stir in walnuts, if using.

5. Divide batter equally among the two prepared pans.

6. Bake 40 minutes. Insert a knife in the centre. If it comes out clean, the zucchini bread is done. If not, bake an additional 10-20 minutes until done.

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PANCAKE

 Ingredients

All purpose flour- 2cups

Eggs – 2

Baking powder – 1tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Sugar -1/2 cup

Milk -1 cup

Method

1. Beat the eggs and mix salt, sugar, baking powder.

2. Now add this to the flour and mix until there are no lumps and the batter is not too watery or too thick.

3. Now heat a non-stick pan in a medium flame and when its hot pour a spoonful of batter in the centre of the pan.

4. Add 2-3 drops of oil over the pancake.

5. Now sprinkle grated coconut or nuts over the pancake

6. Once it turns slightly brown, flip and brown the other side too. Serve hot.

Garnish

1. Pour Maple syrup generously over the pancake and apply whipped cream over it.

2. If you want add fruits over the pancake to make it more delicious.

TOMATO DOSA

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup raw rice and 2 tbsps of Toor Dal, soaked in water for 2-3 hr

2 tomatoes chopped

2 tbsp grated fresh coconut (optional)

2-3 dried red chillies de-seed and tear

1-2 tbsp grated jaggery

1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves (optional)

Salt to taste

Oil as required

Method

1. Drain and grind smoothly the rice and Toor Dal with chopped tomatoes, dried red chillies (de-seed) grated fresh coconut, jaggery, coriander leaves, salt and little water to form a dosa-like batter.

2 .Heat griddles on high flame till hot, reduce heat, pour a laddle full of dosa batter, spread the batter with the bottom of the ladle evenly making circles to form a dosa and drizzle with some oil along the edges. Cook on medium heat for 1-2 mts and increase to high flame for a few seconds and flip the other side and cook for 20-30 seconds or till done.

3. Serve hot with any podi or chutney of your choice like karivepaku podi or coconut chutney

SHORO CHAKHALI -ANOTHER DOSA VARIATION

Ingredients

2 cups of mong dal( yellow small lentil)

2 cups of rice powder (chal gurun) or you may go the entire process of soaking /sona masoori/gobind bhog or any other rice for 2-3 hrs, then grinding to a smooth paste…

Pinch of salt

Method

Soak the dal for 2-3 hrs. Wash the dal with water for 2-3 times.

Grind it in mixer to a smooth paste.

Mix in with rice powder (chal gurun, available in packets of half kg or 1kg, so no need to soak the rice and then grind it)

Add little bit of water to make a smooth batter just like dosa, add pinch of salt.

Now make shoro chakali just like dosa rounds.

Have it with noton gur. Make syrup with noton gur. Just dissole the solid gur/jaggery in water and cook at low to form sweet syrup.

This brings a good change in our usual night meal.

You can make this savoury too, just stuff in with aloo-peas subzi or paneer bhurji.

MASALA IDLI

Ingredients

6 no’s Idlis

 2 no Onion

 1 no Tomato

 1 inch Ginger (crushed)

 4 cloves Garlic (crushed)

 1 no Green chilli (minced)

 ¼ tsp Cumin seeds

 ¼ tsp Mustard

 ¼ tsp Fennel seeds

 10 no’s Curry leaves

 ¼ tsp Split black gram

 ¼ tsp Turmeric powder

 ½ tsp Red chilli powder

 1 tsp Coriander powder

 5 stks Coriander leaves

 4 tsp Oil

 ½ tsp Black pepper powder

 ¼ tsp Salt (or to taste)

Method

Roughly chop the idlis or cut them into big cubes. Some deep fry the idlis and then add to the masala but I prefer plain idlis tossed in masala. For the masala, heat oil in a kadai, splutter mustard, cumin, fennel, split black gram and curry leaves. Add chopped onions, green chillies, crushed ginger and garlic. Fry them till slightly browned. Add the chopped tomatoes and cook until it mashes. Now add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder and salt. (Remember: Idli already has salt in it, so add what’s necessary for the gravy) Fry until the masala cooks, add the chopped idli pieces and toss over medium flame until the masala coats well.  Garnish with coriander leaves and switch off. Serve them hot or pack it for lunch. Great for kids evening snack, picnic parcels or any quick fix.

VANGI BATH (BRINJAL RICE)

Ingredients I

Rice (I prefer basmati rice) – 2 cups

Brinjal – 2 big eggplants/ 4 medium/ 6 small (cut into big chunks)

Onion (optional) – 1 big (finely chopped)

Tomato – 1 / Sour Curd – 1/4 cup

Green Chillies – 2

Whole Garam Masala – 1 tblsp (1 stick cinnamon, 3 cloves, 1 star anise, 2 cardomon, 1 -Bay leaf)

Oil (preferably sesame oil)/ Ghee – 2 tblsp

Ground nuts (optional) – 1 tbsp (roasted)

Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp

Salt – to taste

Coriander leaves(Cilantro) -  2 tblsp(finely chopped)

Asafoetida – a pinch

Ingredients II

Coriander Seeds – 1 tblsp.

Chana Dal – 1 tblsp

Urad dal – 1 tblsp

Kus kus – ½ tsp

Sesame seeds – 1 tblsp

Pepper cons – 1 tsp

Dry red chillies – 2 or 3

Curry leaves – 1 strand

Copra or coconut (grated) – 2 tblsp

Method

1. Heat little oil in a pan and roast all the spices under ‘ingredients II’ till they turn golden brown.

2. Let it cool down and then grind it into a coarse powder (vangibath powder) and keep aside.

3. Soak the rice for 10-15 minutes, cook it seperately with required salt and keep aside.

4. Heat oil/ghee in a deep pan, add the whole garam masala and groundnuts. Saute the onions and green chillies till it turns golden brown.

5. Next add the tomatoes/ sour cud and saute it.

6. Add the eggplant pieces, turmeric, asaefoetida and little salt to it.

7. Add the vangibath masala powder to this, cover and let it cook till the eggplant (brinjal) is cooked nicely.

8. Add the cooked rice to this and mix well so that the rice is nicely coated with the masala.

(Alternatively, if you do not have cooked rice, add this masala along with rice and cook it.)

9. Garnish the vangi bath with finely chopped cilantro. Serve with papad and raita.

Tips

     A tblsp of lemon juice can be added at the end for additional flavour.

     You can cook the rice with coconut milk to make it extra rich.

    You can make the vangibath powder in bulk and store it for several days.

EGG PULAV

Ingredients

Basmati rice – 2 cups

Eggs – 2 or 3

Ghee/ Butter/ Oil – 2 tblsp

Cilantro – for garnish

Onion – 1/4 (Sliced)

Green Chillies – 5 (Slitted)

Tomato -1 small size (chopped)

Ginger Garlic Paste – (1 1/2 spoon)

Whole Garam Masala – (1 bay leaf, 3 cloves, 2 inch cinnamon, 1 star anise)

Salt – to taste

Water – 3 cups

Method 

1. Heat the ghee in a pan and splutter the whole Garam Masala.

2. Sauté the onions with ginger garlic paste, tomato, green chilli’s and salt.

3. Break the eggs and sauté it along with the above mixture.

4. Scramble the eggs until it is cooked and now add the water.

5. Once the water begins to boil add the soaked rice and let it cook on low flame. You can also cook the rice with water, the above sautéed mixture and required salt in a rice cooker.

5. Garnish with cilantro and serve with any curry. It is a very easy to make and its done in minutes.

 Tips

Soak the Rice when you put the kadai on the stove for sautéing your ingredients. So that Rice will not break while cooking

BROWN RICE PULAO

Ingredients:

2 cups Basmati brown rice, soak for an hour in warm water

1 large onion, finely sliced

2 cups cubed mixed vegetables (carrots, potatoes, beans, peas)

2tbsp oil + 1 tbsp ghee

1 tsp ginger garlic paste

few curry leaves

Garam Masala pwd (3 cloves, 1″ cinnamom, 1 elachi, 1 star anise)

Salt to taste

Coarsely crush (do not make a paste):

4-5 tbsps chopped coriander leaves

8-10 chopped pudina leaves

2-3 green chillies

Method :

Heat oil + ghee in a cooking vessel, add the sliced onions and curry leaves and saute for 5 mts. Add the ginger garlic paste and crushed coriander-pudina-green chillis and sauté further for another 5 mis. Add the cubed mixed vegetables and sauté for 6-7 mts.2 Add 4 1/2 cups water and bring to a boil. Add the brown rice, salt and Garam masala pwd, reduce heat, cover with lid and cook till the rice is done.3 Serve hot with Raita or any curry of your choice.

METHI CARROT RICE

Method:

Cook rice and keep aside (this recipe is for 3 cups of cooked rice). Grate carrot, chop beans finely and wash methi leaves. Heat a kadai and dry roast 1/4 tsp cumin seeds, 1 tbsp sesame seeds, 1 tbsp channa dal, small cinnamon stick and few black pepper corns and make a fine powder. Heat oil in a vessel, add curry leaves, carrot, beans and methi leaves and cook them for a few minutes. Add the ground powder, salt and combine. Add the rice and combine with this mixture. I served this rice with cucumber and tomato raita.

POHA

POHA :  Rice flakes fried with potato and onions

Ingredients

1 medium size potato chopped

1 medium size onion chopped

1 cup of sprouted Bengal gram

1 tsp of turmeric powder

1 tsp of red pepper powder

1 tsp of salt

1tsp of cumin seed for tempering

½ cup of chopped cilantro /coriander

2 tbsp of Mustard oil for frying

Method

Heat up the oil in a kadai , add cumin seeds, chopped onions ,potato and fry them for 3-4 mints

Then add turmeric powder, red pepper powder, salt, Bengal gram and little bit of water.

Cover and cook for 5 mints meanwhile wash the poha /flaked rice with water and sieve it in a colander or generally I prefer with my hands, it makes things easy for me.

Add them with the prepared cooked potato/onion gravy and fry at low for 2-3 min .

Sprinkle with cilantro and serve.

SPINACH AND CHANNA SALAD

Ingredients:

10 oz fresh coarsely chopped spinach

1 can chickpeas or 2 cups of boiled channa

1 meduim size red onion chopped

1 big tomato chopped

2-3 medium sized potatoes boiled and cubed

2 green chillies

Slit finely lengthwise

2 tsp finely chopped garlic

1/4 tsp turmeric powder

Salt to taste

1/4 to 1/2 tsp chilli powder

Method

Take about a tbsp of olive oil in a pan and set it on medium heat.

Once the oil is hot enough, add garlic and fry for about 30 seconds.

Add the chopped onions and sauté for a minute or two.

Add the tomatoes, pinch of turmeric, 1/2 of the required salt and chilli powder keep cooking until the tomatoes begin to become soft.

Toss the boiled chick peas and potatoes and stir for a minute or two.

Finally, add all the spinach with the rest of the salt and stir till the spinach wilts.

It is not necessary to cook the spinach for a long time.

This can be eaten as it is or with rice or chapattis.

It is a quite warm and appetizing salad on a cold winter day.

Variations: Adding grated cheese while serving. More spices like chaat masala or garam masala or ground cumin/coriander powder can be used. Grated ginger or ginger powder can be used for flavour.

SPROUTED MOONG SALAD

Ingredients:

1 cup – sprouted moog (soak in water for a day; then, drain out the water and let stand covered until they sprout)

1/2 cup – cucumber, chopped into small strips

2-3 strands – cilantro, finely chopped

1-2 tbsp – grated coconut, fresh/frozen

1-2 tsp – lemon juice

1-2 tsp – oil for seasoning

2-3 – curry leaves

1/2 tsp – mustard seeds

1-2 – chopped green chillies, medium spiced

A pinch of asafoetida

Salt as per taste

Pomegranate seeds, chopped green grapes, dry fruits

Method

Combine sprouted moog, cucumber, cilantro, coconut, fruits/dry fruits and salt in a mixing bowl; toss well.

Temper with mustard seeds, curry leaves, green chillies and asafoetida.

Pour lemon juice and mix well; serve as a salad or side dish during lunch/dinner.

 Note: Moong beans, apart from being a good source of protein also contain useful amounts of fibre, potassium, and B-vitamins.

EGG CASHEWNUT SALAD

Method :

Egg Cashew nut Salad: Boil eggs, remove shell, quarter each egg and keep aside. Soak few cashew nuts in water for 5 min. Heat olive oil in a vessel. Add curry leaves, chopped onions, slit green chili and toss them for a minute. Add pinch of turmeric powder, roasted cumin powder, Chaat Masala powder and cashew nuts and combine. Add the quartered eggs and toss. Turn off heat, garnish with chopped coriander leaves. I served the egg salad along with a bowl of mixed fruits.

SPROUTS & APPLE SALAD

Method :

Sprouts & Apple Salad: Finely chops an apple and cucumber. Combine with a cup of moong sprouts. Just before serving, combine salt, pepper powder, pinch of sugar and lemon juice and combine well. 

BROWN RICE SALAD

 Method :

Cook 2 cups of raw brown rice and keep aside. While the rice is hot, mix in 4 tbsps olive oil, 2 tbsps vinegar, 4 tbsps balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Let the rice cool completely. Once cool, add 4 tbsps finely chopped red and yellow bell peppers, 4 tbsps chopped cucumber, 2 tbsps chopped carrots, one finely chopped apple, 2 tbsps finely chopped spring onions, 1 tbsp chopped coriander/parsley and 2 tbsps roasted and peeled peanuts and combine well

CHILLI PANEER TOAST SANDWICH

Ingredients

Oil- 1 tbsp

Onion – 1

Green pepper – 1

Bread cubes – 2 tblsp

paneer grated – 1/2 cup

Tomato ketchup – 2 tbsp

Chilli sauce – 1 tbsp

Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt – to taste

Coriander leaves – handful

Grated cheese – 1/4 th cup

Method

1. Heat oil in a pan, fry onions & capsicum for 5 min.

2. Add bread cubes, grated paneer, tomato ketchup, chilli sauce, salt, pepper powder and chopped cilantro. Mix well.

3. Apply butter on toasted bread.

4. Spread the above mixture and spinkle some grated cheese on top.

5. Grill until the cheeses melts.

TOMATO CHUTNEY SANDWICH

Andhra Tomato Pickle

Ingredients: 

•1 kg firm red tomatoes washed and cubed

•6 tbsps sesame oil (you can substitute this with vegetable/canola/sunflower oil)

•2 golf-ball sized lumps of tamarind (remove seeds and soak in a little hot water to soften)

•8-10 green chillies (adjust these to your taste if this amount is too hot for you)

•2 tsps fenugreek seeds

•2 tsps cumin seeds

•2 tsps mustard seeds

•1/2 tsp asafoetida

•Salt to taste

Method

In a deep pan, heat 3 tbsps of sesame oil and add tomatoes. Fry until they are soft and then mash roughly.

•Grind the tamarind and green chillies into a paste and add to the mashed tomato paste.

•In another pan heat 3 tbsps of sesame oil and add the mustard seeds. When they splutter add the fenugreek seeds and fry. Now add the asafoetida and remove from the fire.

•Pour this hot mix onto the tomato-tamarind-green chilli paste and mix well.

•Check and adjust seasoning.

•Allow to cool and store in a glass bottle in the refrigerator.

•Eat with plain rice or chapatti or as an accompaniment with other dishes

PREPARE THIS PICKLE AND KEEP IN REFRIGERATOR AND USE FOR WHEN WE PREPARE TOMATO CHUTNEY SANDWICH

Tomato Chutney Sandwich

Ingredients:

•4 tbsps Andhra Tomato Pickle (see recipe below)

•3 tbsps thickened/ heavy/ double cream

•2 slices (the pre-packed kind!) cheese of your choice

•Butter or margarine

•6 slices fresh, soft sandwich bread of your choice (the fresher the better!)

Method :

•Mix the Andhra Tomato Pickle and cream in a bowl and blend till mixed and smooth.

•Lay the slices of bread out on a cutting board and butter their surfaces well.

•Now spread the Tomato Pickle-cream mixture generously on 2 of the slices.

•Top with a buttered slice – buttered side facing up.

•Lay a slice of cheese on this upper side and top with another buttered slice (buttered side facing down this time).

•You can trim edges. I like to leave them on.

•This sandwich tastes equally good toasted or not. I prefer not toasted though.

•Cut in half and serve

MINT CHUTNEY VEGGIE SANDWICH

Mint-Coriander Chutney

Ingredients:

 •1 bunch fresh mint

•1 bunch fresh coriander

•5 cloves garlic

•1″ piece of ginger

•2 green chillies

•1 tsp sugar

•1/2 tsp salt

•2 tsps lime juice

Method :

•Cut off roots from the coriander and any thick stalks from the mint and discard. You should now have enough coriander and mint to loosely fill 1 1/2 to 2 cups with each of them.

•Peel garlic and ginger and remove stalks from green chillies. Wash all these ingredients thoroughly.

•Grind all the ingredients (including the salt which you can add more of later to suit your taste) into a smooth paste in a food processor.

•Chill and serve.

PREPARE THIS PICKLE AND KEEP IN REFRIGERATOR AND USE FOR WHEN WE PREPARE MINT CHUTNEY VEGGIE SANDWICH

Mint Chutney Veggie Sandwich

 Ingredients:

•4 slices wholemeal bread

•Butter

•1/2 cup Mint-Coriander Chutney (see recipe below)

•2 large potatoes boiled, peeled and sliced thick

•1 medium-sized cucumber sliced thin

•2 medium-sized tomatoes sliced thin

•1 large beetroot boiled, peeled and sliced thin

•1 large onion sliced very thin (optional)

•1 tsp Chaat Masala (available in most Indian grocery stores)

•Fresh ground pepper

•Salt

Method  

•Lay all the slices of bread on a cutting board and butter well.

•Now spread a generous quantity of Mint-Coriander Chutney on each slice to cover entire slice.

•Layer all the above veggies in desired quantities and combinations. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Also sprinkle a pinch of Chaat Masala on the veggies.

•Cover with the top slice.

•You can trim edges. I like to leave them on.

•This sandwich tastes equally good toasted or not.

•Cut in half and serve.