CHAPTER SEVEN
THE ACID TEST
How do we know that a book claimed to be from God is really
the Book of God? One of the tests, out of many such tests, is —
that a Message emanating from an Omniscient Being MUST be
consistent with itself. It ought to be free from all discrepancies
and contradictions. This is exactly what the LA ST TESTAMENT,
the Book of God says:
DO THEY NOT CONSIDER
THE QUR’AN (WITH CARE)
HAD IT BEEN FROM A N Y
OTHER THAN ALLAH
THEY WOULD HAVE
FOUND THEREIN M ANY C S
A DISCREPANCY ' ' "
(SURA NISAA) Holy Qur'an 4:82
GOD OR THE DEVIL?
If God Almighty wants us to verify the authenticity of His Book
(The Holy Qur’an) with this acid test, why should we not apply
the very same test to any other Book claiming to be from Him?
We do not want to bamboozle anybody with words as the
Christians have been doing. It would be readily agreed from the
references I have given from Christian scholars, that they have
been proving to us that the Bible is NOT the Word of God, yet
making us believe that they have actually convinced us to the
contrary.
A classic example of this sickness was in evidence again only
“yesterday.” The Anglican synod was in session in Grahamstown.
The Most. Rev. Bill Burnett, the Archbishop was preaching to his
flock. He created a confusion in his Anglican community. An
erudite Englishman, addressing a group of learned English priests
and bishops, in their own mother tongue — English, which his