The Way to Find God
What is Truth?
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discipline can enable man to transcend these natural
limitations and convey to him a knowledge of
absolute truth.
So the stage is left to the Prophet. A prophet is a
human being who asserts that God has chosen him
and revealed true knowledge to him for the
purpose of conveying it to others. Intrinsically, this
is the only plausible claim so far, for only God, who
is eternal and omniscient, can have actual
knowledge of truth. God’s divinity itself is proof of
His all-pervading knowledge of reality. The claim
of one who asserts that he has received knowledge
of truth from God is worthy of consideration.
Here the question arises of there having been not
just one prophet. There are many divine scriptures
and many prophets have been sent to the world;
which of them should be followed? A person who is
really sincere in his search for truth, however, will
have no trouble in finding the answer to this
question. There is no doubt that in the past God has
raised many individuals to the status of
prophethood, but one can judge an event only by
virtue of its historical credibility and only one
