God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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We spent the whole winter in Genesis I. The
students took assignments to the university library,
and then brought back papers marked by
thoroughness such as a teacher usually only dreams
of. At the end of that winter the pastor invited me to
his office and told me that the entire group had
come to him saying that they wished to become
Christians. It has been proved to them, they had
said, that the Bible was the inspired Word of
God.”
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One sentence of the Book of Genesis regarding the
beginning of the world reads: ...and darkness was
upon the face of the deep.’
According to recent discoveries, this gives the best
description of the time when the earth was still hot
and all water had evaporated. All throughout that
time all our seas were suspended in the atmosphere
in the form of dense clouds, as a result of which
light was not able to penetrate to the surface of the
earth. As A. Cressy Morrison says in his book
, Man
Does Not Stand Alone:
‘Can science pick a flaw in this briefest story ever
told? We must accord our homage to the writer,
