God Arises
Affirmation of Prophethood
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Once we have admitted the possibility of divine
revelation, we must establish whether there is any
real need for God to address Himself to particular
human beings in order to have His message
conveyed to the rest of humanity. The most telling
evidence to this effect is the fact that the message
the prophets bring – the truth – is man’s greatest
need. From time immemorial man has gone in
search of reality, but has found it impossible to
discover unaided. He longs to understand what the
universe is, how our life began, and what its end
will be. He seeks to understand the true nature of
good and evil, and how mankind may be
controlled. He needs to know how to organise life
so that all aspects of human relations are given due
recognition and can have a balanced growth. So far,
man’s attempts to find answers to these age-old
problems have met with utter failure. It has taken
us only a relatively short time to acquire a vast
knowledge of the material world, and branches of
such learning as pertain only to the physical aspect
of life continue to proliferate. But in the sphere of
human sciences, the most prolonged efforts on the
part of the best brains have failed to determine even
the most basic factors in this field. What greater
