God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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months later, all of those young students accepted
Christianity! What could have been the reason for
his extraordinary response? Peter W. Stoner
explains it is this way: “I was immediately faced
with the problem as to what should be presented to
a group of this type. Since these young men had no
faith in the Bible, ordinary Bible teaching seemed
useless. Then I hit upon an idea. I had noticed in my
undergraduate work a very close relation between
the first chapter of Genesis and the sciences, and
decided to present this picture to the group.
‘The students and I naturally were aware of the fact
that this Genesis material had been written
thousands of years before science had any of its
present-day knowledge and concepts regarding the
universe, and the earth, and the life upon it. We
realized that many of the teachings of people back
in the days of Moses and for thousand of years
thereafter were very absurd when looked at in the
light of modern knowledge available also to this
group of students. Nevertheless, we “tackled” the
subject with a will.
