God Arises
Affirmation of Prophethood
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understandable in terms of religion. It means, quite
simply, that God sends His guidance to man by just
such invisible means, to show him what he must do
and what he must not do. There being no visible
contact between God and man at the time of
revelation, many people refuse to accept that any
such thing takes place. But if we consider the lives
of other creatures, in particular, those of migratory
birds, it becomes clear that guidance which is in the
nature of revelation does take place. The flight of
these birds can have no other true explanation than
that they do receive some kind of external guidance.
When there exist no known causes within the birds,
we have to attribute their uncanny sense of timing
and direction to external causes. The claim of the
prophet that he received unseen guidance from God
was certainly quite extraordinary. But such unseen
guidance should not seem strange in the present
universe, where there are so many such examples,
one very obvious example being that given to fish
such as salmon and eel to enable them to return
across half the world to their breeding places in
order to spawn.
