God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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unknown and unheralded, in complete humility
bow to his wisdom and admit his inspiration. In the
face of the simple truth here told, let us not quarrel
over details due to translation and human
interpolation or over the question of how God did
His work or the time it took. Who knows? The facts
as told have come down through the ages and are
facts.
It is our belief that the Old and New Testaments
were originally divine, as the Quran still is today
and that they still contain sparks of divine
knowledge, but the scriptures have lost their
pristine qualities in the process of translation and
interpolation.
As Dr. Maurice Bucaille writes in his book
The Bible,
the Quran and Science.
‘A revelation is mingled in all
these writings, but all we possess today is what men
have seen fit to leave us. These men manipulated
the texts to please themselves, according to the
circumstances they were in and the necessities they
had to meet.
‘When these objective data are compared with those
found in various prefaces to Bibles destined today
